Claim · model-written summary
Above-ground residue was greater with corn intercropped with Ruzi grass (9.8 Mg ha-1) than with sole corn.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- Ruzi Grasse0
- Outcome
- Above-ground crop residuee0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- 9.8 Mg ha-1e0
- Qualifier
- 4.0 Mg ha-1e0
- Comparator
- when corn was not intercroppede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Above-ground crop residue was greater when corn was intercropped with Tanzania grass (10.7 Mg ha-1), Marandu (10.1 Mg ha-1), and Ruzi Grass (9.8 Mg ha-1) than when corn was not intercropped (4.0 Mg ha-1)”
Title
Gessí Ceccon; Luiz Alberto Staut; Edvaldo Sagrilo; et al. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 2013. doi:10.1590/s0100-06832013000100021
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Corn grain and stover yields were unaffected by intercropping.
- Intervention effect Above-ground residue was greater with corn intercropped with Tanzania grass (10.7 Mg ha-1) than with sole corn.
- Intervention effect Above-ground residue was greater with corn intercropped with Marandu (10.1 Mg ha-1) than with sole corn.
- Intervention effect Intercropped treatments increased the percentage of soil surface covered with crop residue.
- Intervention effect Soybean grain yield was higher after sole and intercropped ruzi grass than after other crops.
- Intervention effect Corn grain yield was higher after sole and intercropped ruzi grass than after other crops.
- Association Intercropping corn with Brachiaria spp. maintains soil nutrients.
- Association Intercropping corn with Brachiaria spp. does not reduce the viability of no-till.