Claim · model-written summary
Vermicompost increased maize yield and leaf traits under normal and deficit irrigation.
- Treatment
- vermicomposte0
- Outcome
- grain yield, Leaf Area Index, leaf chlorophyll contents, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Leaf relative water content (RWC)e1
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Use of Azotobacter and vermicompost signifi cantly increased these traits in normal and defi cit irrigation”
e1“grain yield, Leaf Area Index, leaf chlorophyll contents, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Leaf relative water content (RWC)”
t0“maize”
Title
Ali Shirkhani; Safar Nasrolahzadeh Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications 2016. doi:10.21786/bbrc/9.3/7
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation decreased maize grain yield and leaf area index.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation decreased maize leaf chlorophyll, NDVI and relative water content.
- Intervention effect Azotobacter increased maize yield and leaf traits under normal and deficit irrigation.
- Observation Using 6 ton/ha vermicompost and Azotobacter supplied 50% of maize fertilizer.
- Intervention effect Combined biofertilizers and chemical fertilizers increased maize yield and other traits.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost plus chemical fertilizer performed better than chemical fertilizer alone, including its full recommended rate.
- Recommendation The authors recommend organic sources with 50% recommended NPK fertilizer for sustainable maize production under normal and deficit irrigation.
Azotobacter