Claim · model-written summary
Relay intercropping marginally reduced lentil grain protein concentration relative to sole cropping.
- Taxon
- lentil
Lens culinarise0 - Treatment
- relay intercroppinge0
- Outcome
- lentil grain protein concentratione0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- marginallye0
- Comparator
- respective sole cropse1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValue
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Verbatim
e0“Results showed that relay intercropping enhanced lentil grain yield and durum wheat grain protein concentration but marginally reduced durum wheat grain yield and lentil grain protein concentration.”
e1“compared to the respective sole crops.”
Title
Gilbert Koskey; Luciano Avio; Alessandra Turrini; et al. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 2023. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2023.108696
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Intervention effect Relay intercropping enhanced lentil grain yield relative to sole cropping.
- Intervention effect Relay intercropping enhanced durum wheat grain protein concentration relative to sole cropping.
- Intervention effect Relay intercropping marginally reduced durum wheat grain yield relative to sole cropping.
- Intervention effect Relay intercropping enhanced soil mycorrhizal activity relative to sole cropping.
- Intervention effect Relay intercropping differentially influenced mycorrhizal root colonization relative to sole cropping.
- Observation Sequencing generated 234 Glomeromycota amplicon sequence variants.
- Observation The Glomeromycota sequence variants were assigned to 31 virtual taxa.
- Observation Glomeraceae was among the most abundant taxa, with contrasting abundances between years.
- Observation Claroideoglomeraceae was among the most abundant taxa, with contrasting abundances between years.
- Association AMF diversity and community structure changes depended on the crop species by year interaction.
- Intervention effect Intercropping did not affect AMF diversity and community structure changes.
- Association Claroideoglomus showed a strong association with lentil roots.
- Association Septoglomus showed a strong association with lentil roots.
- Association Rhizophagus was associated with durum wheat roots in 2020.
- Association Paraglomus was associated with durum wheat roots in 2020.
- Association Grain protein concentration was associated with community richness and AMF root colonization.
- Association Lentil grain protein concentration was associated with community richness and AMF root colonization.