Month: September 2022

MONOLINGUAL BARRIER. "Japanese researchers at agricultural experiment stations have described the methodology of treading and have generated quantitative studies on its remarkable effects over the last several decades. However, the information on this practice in English has remained scarce, since it had been targeted to local farmers and written in Japanese only." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

INCREASED CROP YIELDS. "Mugifumi is known to significantly affect wheat and barley plants. Treated plants have less spindly growth and lodgings, more tillers, longer spikes, and higher yields than untreated plants if farmers perform mugifumi properly." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

DEVILS AND DETAILS. "The timing and number of times mugifumi is performed are important to obtain good results. Special care is needed when performing mugifumi because the growth of wheat and barley varies from year to year and from region to region." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

SPECIFIC TECHNIQUE. "If farmers miss the right time and perform mugifumi an incorrect number of times, they may damage the seedlings and have a reduced grain yield. The appropriate weight for mugifumi corresponds to the body weight per seedling." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

SOIL AND ROOTS. "To avoid letting the soil become too firm, it is important to tread seedlings when the soil is dry. Another beneficial effect of treading is that it permits roots that have risen from the soil due to the growth of frost columns to be settled. The length and number of roots were also increased by 4 and 7%, respectively." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

STEMS AND LEAVES. "Regarding the shoot, the numbers of stems and leaves as well as the wet weight were increased by treading by 74, 10, and 50%, respectively." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

SPIKES AND GRAIN. "This treading led to good yields: the number of spikes per plant, weight of whole plant, and grain weight per plant were increased by 18, 41, and 54%, respectively." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

OTHER BEAN PLANTS. "Rubbed soybean plants exhibited reduction in stem elongation and frost resistance. Mechanically rubbed stems of common bean were hardened because of an increase in flexibility and acquired resistance to bending-caused breaking." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

NATURAL HARDENING. "Wind-induced mechanical stress increased resistance to an arthropod herbivore and a fungal pathogen in common bean." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn

CHERRY ROOTS. "Effects of mechanical stress on trees have also been studied extensively. For instance, mechanical bending of the stem increased biomass allocation toward the root in wild cherry tree seedlings, avoiding the formation of poor root systems and the reduction of diameter growth of the trunk seen in mechanically untreated seedlings." https://lnkd.in/dDuN9mZ View in LinkedIn