Claim · model-written summary
Higher density increased leaf area index.
- Taxon
- maize and potato
Solanum tuberosum
Zea mayst0 - Treatment
- increase in plant density from 3.8 to 5.3 plant per square metere0
- Outcome
- Leaf Area Index (LAI)e0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Comparator
- 3.8e0
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Verbatim
e0“There was an increase observed in the radiation absorption and in Leaf Area Index (LAI) with an increase in plant density from 3.8 to 5.3 plant per square meter.”
t0“maize and potato”
Title
An evaluation of yield in "intercropping of maize and potato"
K H Jamshidi; D Mazaheri; Jalal Saba DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2008. doi:10.22059/jdesert.2008.27109
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Higher density increased radiation absorption.
- Observation Potato yield reached a maximum of 20390 kg/ha at the 3:1 crop ratio.
- Observation Maize yield reached a maximum of 8898 kg/ha at the 1:1 intercrop ratio.
- Intervention effect Cropping system had a significant effect on potato yield, branch number and tuber weight.
- Intervention effect Cropping system significantly affected maize yield, ears per plant and seeds per year.
- Observation All intercropping treatments had land equivalent ratio above one.
- Observation The highest potato land equivalent ratio was 1.58 at the 3:1 ratio.
- Observation The highest maize land equivalent ratio was 1.58 at the 1:1 ratio.