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In a glasshouse experiment, an increase of the number of wheat plants per pot caused the plants to became taller, have more ears and a greater grain yield per pot, while the number of tillers decreased and the straw mass did not change. The N and P contents in straw and N in grain also trended to decrease, while the translocation of these nutrients to the grain increased.
The increase of wild oat plants (Avena sterilis spp.macrocarpa Mo.) per pot, produced a decrease of the growth attributes, grain yield and N accumulation in grain of wheat per pot. Wild oat competition with wheat was higher than the wheat competition with itself. Such competition affected the height, number of tillers and ears, the fertility index of the shoots, the straw and grain mass, and the total accumulation of N, P and K nutrients per wheat plant.
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Gonzalez ponce, R., Salas, M.L. & Herce, A. Competition of wild oat with wheat in comparison to the wheat itself. Biol Plant 34, 285–290 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02925885
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