Multi‐Year Effects of Biochar, Lipo‐Chitooligosaccharide, Thuricin 17, and Experimental Bio‐Fertilizer for Switchgrass
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Abstract
Core Ideas Semi‐Markovian models indicate a positive effect of biochar on switchgrass dry weight. Recursive models show stem number affected fresh weight, which increased dry weight. Switchgrass responds to thuricin 17, an experimental signal compound. Previous research indicated that plant height and tillering contributed to the yield of switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum L.) transplants that were spaced at distances of 30 to 107 cm. In Québec, applications of 20 t ha −1 biochar to a sandy soil increased switchgrass biomass fertilized at 100 kg N ha −1 . Therefore, the research objectives of this study were to determine whether or not (i) 10 t ha −1 softwood biochar affects traits that contribute to dry weight of fertilized switchgrass; (ii) these traits are affected by: a bacteriocin of Bacillus thurigiensis NEB17 (thuricin 17), a lipo‐chitooligosaccharide of Bradyrhizobium japonicum 532C, and an experimental bio‐fertilizer; and (iii) the path modeling of treatment effects change over time. The experiment was arranged as a randomized complete block design with 11 treatments. For the establishment year, semi‐Markovian path models built on rank‐transformed data indicate that biochar increased dry weight of the aboveground portion of biomass ( b Biochar,DW = 0.20 ± 0.15). The data from subsequent years indicate that the stems count per plant directly affected fresh weight ( b Stems,FW = 0.65 ± 0.09 in 2014 and 0.56 ± 0.11 in 2015), which in turn directly affected dry weight ( b FW,DW = 0.89 ± 0.03 in 2014 and 0.83 ± 0.05 in 2015). Thuricin 17 increased the switchgrass height ( b T17,Height = 0.26 ± 0.10 based on 2014 and 2015 combined data). In conclusion, biochar can increase switchgrass height and dry weight in the establishment year, thuricin 17 can increase plant height in post‐establishment years, and therefore the effects change over time.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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