In the case of nutrient management practices, what kind of changes can we expect in dry matter % as compared to the control where no nutrient was supplied. If we consider a known amount of fresh sample weight whether the dry matter % will increase or decrease in plants having sufficient nutrient supply as compared to the control?
Elaboration:
1. There are two plot conditions; the first one does not have an external nutrient supply hence facing nutritional deficiency ( control) and the second one has sufficient supply of nutrients (NM). All the other factors are kept same.
2. Now we have taken a known amount of fresh chopped sample (say 500 grams) for both the treatments and oven-dried it following the standard procedure.
3. What kind of outcome can we expect for dry matter percentage? whether the Drymatter% of control sample will be higher than the NM or vice-versa?
Kindly check https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1847&context=igc
Also check https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(99)75381-6/pdf
Chinaza Godswill Awuchi Thanks for your input however both the papers are not relevant to the question I have asked. I had asked about the effect of nutrient management on dry matter percentage; whether the DM% will increase over control or not. I am not asking about dry matter uptake. I am interested only on dry matter percentage of a known amount of sample and not dry matter accumulation/uptake. Thanks
The dry matter content have a direct co-relation with the nutrient management. There are so many research articles, which will help you in assessing the impact of variation in nutrient management on dry matter and nutrient uptake.
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