Claim · model-written summary
Common bean straw and coffee husk vermicompost increased soybean grain yield by 60%.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- common bean straw + coffee huske0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- surpassinge0
- Value
- 60%e0
- Comparator
- plants without vermicomposte0
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Verbatim
e0“the one prepared from common bean straw + coffee husk resulted in the highest aboveground biomass and grain yield, surpassing plants without vermicompost by 28% and 60%, respectively.”
t0“soybean”
Title
Melkamu Dugassa; Walelign Worku Scientific Reports 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-47574-8
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Vermicompost significantly improved soybean growth and yield-related parameters relative to no vermicompost.
- Intervention effect Different vermicomposts increased soybean leaf area per plant by 7 to 62%.
- Intervention effect Common bean straw and coffee husk vermicompost increased soybean aboveground biomass by 28%.
- Intervention effect Across types, vermicompost increased soybean aboveground biomass by 5% to 30%.
- Intervention effect Across types, vermicompost increased soybean grain yield per plant by 18% to 60%.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost significantly reduced soybean root nodule number and effective nodules relative to control.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost significantly reduced soybean fresh and dry weight relative to control.
- Recommendation The authors advise common bean straw and coffee husk vermicompost for soybean growth and yield.
- Recommendation The authors call for field experiments at multiple locations to strengthen recommendations.