Claim · model-written summary
Dry weight of wheat decreased during the last week before cutting.
- Taxon
- Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Outcome
- dry weighte2
- Direction
- decreasee2
- Qualifier
- during the last weeke2
Verbatim
t0“The Development of the Grain of Wheat”
e2“Some decrease of dry weight takes place during the last week”
Title
The Development of the Grain of Wheat
W. E. Brenchley; A. D. Hall The Journal of Agricultural Science 1909. doi:10.1017/s002185960000112x
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation The whole wheat plant increased in weight until about a week before it would be regarded as ready to cut.
- Observation The nitrogen, ash and phosphoric acid of the whole wheat plant increased until about a week before ready-to-cut.
- Observation Grain formation in wheat passes through three stages.
- Observation The ratio of nitrogenous to non-nitrogenous materials and ash moved into the endosperm was always the same.
- Mechanism The character of the endosperm mould of each wheat plant is determined by variety, soil and season.
- Observation The main feature of wheat ripening is desiccation rather than chemical changes.
- Observation The maximum dry weight of wheat grain is attained a day or two before the grain would be regarded as ripe.
- Intervention effect Cutting wheat before the corn appears quite ripe incurs no loss of crop weight.
- Intervention effect Early cutting before full ripeness may avoid accidental mechanical losses of wheat.