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The authors judge nutrient conditioning of little advantage to transplant growers.

Taxon: WatermelonCitrullus lanatust0
Treatment: PNCe0
Outcome: little advantagee0

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“PNC offers the transplant grower little advantage”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 786–835

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“Watermelon”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 106–116

Title

Cell Size and Pretransplant Nutritional Conditioning Influence Growth and Yield of Transplanted `Jubilee' Watermelon

Charles J. Graham; James T. Payne; Eric J. Molnar HortTechnology 2000. doi:10.21273/horttech.10.1.199

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Intervention effect Larger cell volume shortened time to staminate and pistillate flowering.
Intervention effect Pretransplant nutrient conditioning shortened time to staminate and pistillate flowering.
Intervention effect Larger cell volumes increased early harvested watermelon number in two of three studies.
Intervention effect Larger cell volumes increased average watermelon weight in two of three studies.
Intervention effect Larger cell volume raised early yield per area in 1995 and 1998 but not 1997.
Intervention effect Larger cell volume raised total yield per area in 1995 and 1998 but not 1997.
Intervention effect The effect of cell volume on soluble solids varied by season.
Intervention effect Conditioning increased the number of early harvested melons in 1995.
Intervention effect Conditioning increased early yield per area in 1995.
Intervention effect Conditioning increased soluble solids in early harvested fruit in 1997.
Intervention effect Conditioning had no significant effect on total Jubilee watermelon size.
Intervention effect Conditioning had no significant effect on total production during 1995, 1997 or 1998.
Recommendation The authors favor increasing transplant cell size to improve early and total yields.

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Little advantage is expected from subsoil testing for annual crops.

Taxon: annual cropse2
Outcome: subsoil testinge2
Qualifier: little advantage would be expectede2

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“little advantage would be expected from subsoil testing for annual crops”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 263–335

Title

The Significance of Subsoil and Soil Series in Nebraska Soil Testing¹

R. A. Olson; A. F. Dreier; R. C. Sorensen Agronomy Journal 1958. doi:10.2134/agronj1958.00021962005000040005x

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Authors conclude mixtures offer little hay yield advantage over alfalfa monocultures.

Taxon: alfalfaMedicago sativae0
Interactor: grasse0other
Outcome: little yield advantagee0
Qualifier: when harvested as haye0
Comparator: alfalfa monoculturese0

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“alfalfa‐grass mixtures offer little yield advantage over alfalfa monocultures when harvested as hay”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1345–1444

Title

Yield Dynamics of Canopy Components in Alfalfa‐Grass Mixtures

G. D. Mooso; W. F. Wedin Agronomy Journal 1990. doi:10.2134/agronj1990.00021962008200040010x

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Association Planting pattern, grass species and season affected mixture botanical composition.
Association Planting pattern, grass species and season affected mixture yield.
Intervention effect Alfalfa-grass mixtures exceeded alfalfa monoculture yield in only one spring cycle.
Intervention effect Alfalfa-grass mixtures were less productive than alfalfa monocultures in summer regrowth.
Association Reed canarygrass contributed more to spring total yield than orchardgrass.
Association The two grasses had similar summer yield proportions.
Association Grass yield in mixtures was unaffected by alfalfa association.

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The authors infer little advantage from sourcing black spruce seed outside the region.

Taxon: black sprucePicea marianae0
Outcome: little advantage in going outside the region to obtain black spruce seede0

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“there is little advantage in going outside the region to obtain black spruce seed”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 417–498

Title

Geographic variation of black spruce tested in the Maritimes

Y. S. Park; D. P. Fowler Canadian Journal of Forest Research 1988. doi:10.1139/x88-016

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Observation Genetic variation was predominantly clinal.
Observation Provenance by location interactions were moderately large.
Observation Provenance stability varied widely.
Observation Trees of Maritime origin generally performed well.
Method / resource Three overlapping breeding zones were delineated for the Maritime provinces.

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The studied blends offered little advantage over a single well-adapted variety.

Taxon: alfalfaMedicago sativat0
Outcome: little advantage of the blends studied over a single well‐adapted varietye0

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“There was little advantage of the blends studied over a single well‐adapted variety.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1798–1882

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“alfalfa”
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Title

Performance of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Blends Consisting of Long‐ and Short‐Lived Varieties¹

J. A. Jackobs; D. A. Miller Agronomy Journal 1973. doi:10.2134/agronj1973.00021962006500020011x

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Intervention effect Adding Stride to Vernal increased first-year alfalfa yield by 1.7 mt/ha.
Intervention effect Stride–Vernal yield did not differ significantly from Vernal alone in the second harvest year.
Intervention effect Stride–Vernal yield was significantly less than Vernal alone in the third and fourth harvest years.
Observation Moapa plants died during the first winter after seeding.
Intervention effect Moapa–Vernal blend yield was significantly lower than Vernal alone in the first harvest year.
Observation Second-year yield differences between Moapa–Vernal blends and Vernal alone were smaller.
Intervention effect Blends with 33% Moapa seed yielded about the same as Vernal alone in years three and four.
Observation After Moapa died, remaining Vernal plants formed a stand nearly as productive as Vernal alone.
Observation After Stride died, remaining Vernal plants were less productive than Vernal alone.

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The selected simultaneous intercrops offered little advantage over monocropped maize.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse0
Outcome: simultaneous planting of the crop species selected has little advantagee0
Comparator: monocropped maizee0

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“simultaneous planting of the crop species selected has little advantage over monocropped maize”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1563–1657

Title

Effect of cropping systems on cereal stemborers in the cool‐wet and semi‐arid ecozones of the Amhara region of Ethiopia

M. Wale; F. Schulthess; Eunice W. Kairu; et al. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 2007. doi:10.1111/j.1461-9563.2007.00324.x

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Observation Busseola fusca predominated in western Amhara.
Observation Chilo partellus predominated in eastern Amhara.
Intervention effect Mustard and potato intercrops significantly reduced maize borer numbers and tunnelling at vegetative stage.
Intervention effect Cropping system did not significantly affect pest densities in eastern Amhara.
Intervention effect Cereal damage tended to be greatest with sweet potato intercrops.
Association Cotesia flavipes parasitism of C. partellus was greater on maize than sorghum.
Intervention effect On maize, Cotesia flavipes parasitism was greater with sweet potatoes than other intercrops or sole maize.
Intervention effect Cocoon mass number per plant did not differ significantly between treatments.
Intervention effect Sorghum yields were significantly different among treatments and lowest with a tuber intercrop.
Intervention effect Maize yields were significantly different among treatments and lowest with a tuber intercrop.

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The authors conclude cutout mepiquat chloride offers little or no management, yield or fiber quality advantage.

Outcome: little or no advantage in plant management, lint yield, or fiber qualitye0

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“MC applied at cutout offers little or no advantage in plant management, lint yield, or fiber quality.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1511–1612

Title

The Effects of Mepiquat Chloride Applied to Cotton at Early Bloom and Physiological Cutout

Guy D. Collins; Keith L. Edmisten; Randy Wells; et al. The journal of cotton science/Journal of cotton science 2017. doi:10.56454/wjvv5547

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Intervention effect Early-bloom mepiquat chloride reduced plant height in most environments.
Intervention effect Early-bloom mepiquat chloride had variable effects on other growth characteristics.
Intervention effect Early-bloom mepiquat chloride increased terminal regrowth in some environments.
Intervention effect Early-bloom mepiquat chloride reduced basal regrowth in one year.
Intervention effect Early-bloom mepiquat chloride had no effect on basal regrowth-to-height ratio.
Intervention effect Cutout mepiquat chloride had little or no practical effect on growth, maturity, defoliation, regrowth, yield or fiber quality at most locations.

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Random mating F2 before selection and inbreeding offers little to no advantage.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Outcome: little to no advantage of random mating the F 2 before initiating selection and inbreedinge0

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“Our results suggest little to no advantage of random mating the F 2 before initiating selection and inbreeding”
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“Maize”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 22–27

Title

Epistasis in an Elite Maize Hybrid and Choice of Generation for Inbred Line Development

Kendall R. Lamkey; Bruce J. Schnicker; Albrecht E. Melchinger Crop Science 1995. doi:10.2135/cropsci1995.0011183x003500050004x

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Starter fertilizer offers little advantage on high P sandy soils.

Taxon: flue-cured tobaccoe0
Outcome: little advantage to using starter fertilizere0
Setting: high-P sandy soilse0

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“there is little advantage to using starter fertilizer on flue-cured tobacco grown on high-P sandy soils”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1387–1490

Title

EFFECTS OF STARTER FERTILIZER, GRANULAR PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZER, TIME OF FERTILIZATION, AND SEEDLING PHOSPHORUS CONCENTRATION ON FLUE-CURED TOBACCO GROWTH AND NUTRITION

James W. Rideout; Dewitt T. Gooden Tobacco Science 2000. doi:10.3381/0082-4623-44.1.19

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Intervention effect Starter fertilizer increased early growth and nutrient uptake.
Intervention effect Starter fertilizer slightly accelerated flowering.
Intervention effect Starter fertilizer generally did not affect yield or visual quality.
Intervention effect Starter fertilizer slightly improved visual quality in one experiment.
Intervention effect Phosphorus fertilization had little effect on most measured parameters.
Intervention effect Phosphorus fertilizer gave a small yield increase in one experiment.
Intervention effect Delayed fertilization slightly lengthened the growing season.
Intervention effect Delayed fertilization did not harm yield or quality index.
Intervention effect Low transplant phosphorus concentration did not affect later growth, yield or quality.
Recommendation Low P nutrient regimes for greenhouse seedlings are not detrimental to field performance.

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Omitting drainage gives little or no advantage to nature conservation where grassland is intensively managed.

Taxon: peat grasslandt0
Outcome: omitting drainagee3
Qualifier: little or no advantage to nature conservatione3
Setting: intensively managede3

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“Effects of drainage on the botanical richness of peat grassland.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–64

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“Results indicated that there was little or no advantage to nature conservation in omitting drainage where grassland was intensively managed”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 651–790

Title

Effects of drainage on the botanical richness of peat grassland.

A.J. van Strien; T.C.P. Melman Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 1987. doi:10.18174/njas.v35i2.16739

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