Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping increased soybean yield by 24% averaged across silicon levels.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe0 - Treatment
- intercroppede0
- Outcome
- soybean yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 24%e0
- Qualifier
- averaging the two Si levelse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“24% increase in intercropped soybean yield, despite a 7% decrease in rice yield averaging the two Si levels”
Title
Hongcheng Zhang; Shilin Li; Shiwen Wang; et al. Food and Energy Security 2025. doi:10.1002/fes3.70111
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Silicon increased total intercropping-system yield by 15% versus no silicon.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased total monoculture-system yield by 13% versus no silicon.
- Intervention effect Intercropping increased total yield by 5% versus monoculture without silicon.
- Intervention effect Intercropping increased total yield by 7% versus monoculture with silicon.
- Observation Intercropping had a land equivalent ratio above one at both silicon levels.
- Intervention effect Intercropping decreased rice yield by 7% averaged across silicon levels.
- Association Crop yield was positively correlated with root morphological traits.
- Association Root surface area was the most significant predictor of crop yield.
- Observation Intercropped soybean had a competitive advantage over rice.
- Intervention effect Intercropping promoted soybean root morphological traits.
- Intervention effect Intercropping inhibited rice root morphological traits.
- Intervention effect Silicon significantly promoted rice root morphology and distribution under intercropping.
- Intervention effect Silicon significantly promoted soybean root morphology and distribution under intercropping.