Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping produced more grain protein than pure cropping.
- Treatment
- intercrope0
- Outcome
- grain proteine0
- Direction
- moree0
- Value
- 290 kg ha −1e0
- Qualifier
- 217 kg ha −1e0
- Comparator
- pure crope0
SorghumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the intercrop produced more grain protein (290 kg ha −1 ) than the pure crop (217 kg ha −1 )”
t0“Sorghum”
Title
Louis-Marie Raboin; Nofou Ouedraogo; Mariam Kabore; et al. Field Crops Research 2025. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2025.109984
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Intercrop grain yield did not differ significantly from pure sorghum yield.
- Association Most traits varied significantly by sorghum genotype.
- Association Few genotype by cropping system interactions were significant.
- Association Sorghum genotypes had no significant effect on cowpea grain yield.
- Association Cowpea and sorghum grain yields were not negatively correlated in the intercrop.
- Association Cowpea grain yield was negatively correlated with sorghum biomass in 2021.
- Association Cowpea grain yield was positively correlated with sorghum harvest index in 2021.
- Mechanism Intercrop competition was for water rather than light.
- Recommendation Authors advise avoiding high-biomass, low-harvest-index sorghum varieties for intercropping.