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Use of foliar symptoms and plant height to predict yield loss in potatoes due to metribuzin injury

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A model to predict yield loss due to metribuzin injury was developed using data from four experiments involving postemergence applications of metribuzin to numerous cultivars and breeding selections. Two explanatory variables, plant height proportion (PHR), defined as injured/uninjured, and percent foliar injury (FI), were used to predict yield loss. Three multiple regression models, including linear, quadratic, and a linear-log were considered and evaluated. Acceptance of the best model was based on comparison of fit as indicated by Residual Mean Squares, Adjusted R2, and Predicted Sums of Squares. The best fit was for a linear-log model utilizing percent foliar injury and a natural log transformation of the plant height proportion (injured/uninjured). The predictive model was statistically validated by utilizing residual analysis on an independent data set. The model can be used to simply and quickly predict yield losses due to metribuzin injury

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Se desarrolló un modelo, para pronosticar la pérdida en rendimiento debida al dafio por metribuzin, utilizando la information de cuatro experimentos comprendiendo aplicaciones de posemergencia de metribuzin a numerosos cultivares y selecciones de mejoramiento. Para pronosticar la pérdida en rendimiento se utilizaron dos variables teóricas, la proportión de altura de planta (PHR), definida como dañada/no dañada, y el por ciento foliar de daño (FI). Se consideraron y evaluaron tres modelos de regresión múltiple, incluyendo la lineal, la cuadrática y una lineal-logaritmica. La aceptación del mejor modelo se basó en la comparación de su utilidad, de acuerdo a lo indicado por los Cuadrados Medios Residuales, la R2 Calculada y la Suma de Cuadrados Pronosticada. La mayor utilidad se obtuvo con un modelo lineal-logaritmico utilizando el por ciento de dafio foliar y una transformation de un logaritmo natural de la proportión de altura de planta (dañada/no dañada). El modelo de pronóstico fue comprobado estadísticamente utilizando un análisis residual en un grupo de datos independientes. El modelo puede ser utilizado para simplificar y pronosticar rápidamente las pérdidas en rendimiento de la papa debidas al daño por metribuzin.

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Paper No. 92722 of the Idaho Agriculture Experiment Station. This research was supported in part by USDA-CSRS Grant No. 84-CRSR-2-2360 and the Idaho Potato Commission.

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Love, S.L., Shafii, B., Haderlie, L.C. et al. Use of foliar symptoms and plant height to predict yield loss in potatoes due to metribuzin injury. American Potato Journal 70, 517–525 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02846752

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