Claim · model-written summary
Infiltration was 16-30% higher after beans in the maize-sunflower-beans rotation than under conventional tillage.
- Taxon
- beanse0
- Treatment
- CA plots where beans were previously planted in maize-sunflower-beans rotatione0
- Outcome
- Infiltratione0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 16-30%e0
- Comparator
- conventional tilled treatmente0
- Setting
- CA plotse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Infiltration was significantly higher (16-30% higher) on CA plots where beans were previously planted in maize-sunflower-beans rotation compared to the conventional tilled treatment.”
Title
Sebastião Famba; Willibald Loiskandl; Christian Thierfelder; et al. 2011
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