Claim · model-written summary
Cutting between 20 and 30 cm increased the total number of leaves, the number of green leaves and the average leaf size.
- Taxon
- Brachiaria hibridae0
- Treatment
- Cutting heights between 20 and 30 cme3
- Outcome
- total number of leaves, number of green leaves, average size of the leafse3
- Direction
- increasee3
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Verbatim
e0“This work aimed to evaluate the effects of different individual heights of cut on structural characteristics of Brachiaria hibrida cv. Mulato I in four periods of the year”
e3“Cutting heights between 20 and 30 cm contributed positively to increase the total number of leaves, number of green leaves, average size of the leafs and total dry matter production”
Title
Structural Characteristics of Mulato Grass I under Different Cutting Heights
Leonardo Assis Dutra; Fabianno Cavalcante de Carvalho; Eneas Reis Leite; et al. American Journal of Plant Sciences 2014. doi:10.4236/ajps.2014.55077
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Cutting at 10 cm decreased total dry matter production of Brachiaria hibrida cv. Mulato I.
- Intervention effect Cutting between 20 and 30 cm increased total dry matter production.
- Recommendation Cutting around 40 cm was not recommended under the present experimental conditions.
- Intervention effect Cutting around 40 cm decreased the leaf/stem ratio.
- Intervention effect Cutting around 40 cm increased stem fraction and dry matter content.