Claim · model-written summary
Single super phosphate gave a higher total biomass than phosphate rocks in maize and cowpea.
- Taxon
- maize and cowpea
Vigna unguiculata
Zea mayst0 - Treatment
- Single super phosphate (SSP)e1
- Outcome
- total biomasse1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- phosphate rocks (PR)e1
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Verbatim
t0“maize and cowpea”
e1“Single super phosphate (SSP) gave ahigher total biomass than the phosphate rocks (PR)”
Title
M. O. Akande; Emmanuel Ayobami Makinde; F. I. Oluwatoyinbo; et al. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 2010. doi:10.5897/ajest09.249
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Phosphate application significantly enhanced dry matter yields of maize and cowpea.
- Intervention effect On Ilora soil SSP increased maize total biomass at 20, 40 and 60 kgP/ha, to 8.20, 9.25 and 9.72.
- Intervention effect SSP increased cowpea yields to 3.28, 4.04 and 3.36 g per plant.
- Intervention effect Ogun and crystallizer super phosphate rocks gave dry matter yields comparable to single super phosphate in maize and cowpea.
- Intervention effect Application of 60 kg/ha gave the best growth performance in all soils.
- Intervention effect Application of 60 kg P/ha gave significant treatment effects on shoot, root and total dry matter yields.
- Intervention effect Alternating maize with cowpea gave a higher total plant biomass than continuous maize.
- Intervention effect Regular frequency of P application was superior to alternate frequency.
- Intervention effect Cumulative apparent P recovery was maximal with 20 kgP/ ha SSP, at 75, 80 and 70% in Ilora, Ibadan and Epe soils.