Claim · model-written summary
Micronutrient fertilization did not significantly affect yield of sweet potato.
- Taxon
- sweet potato
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Ipomoea batatase2 - Treatment
- micronutrient fertilizatione6
- Outcome
- yielde6
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede6
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Verbatim
e6“neither weed control timing nor micronutrient fertilization significantly affected yield”
e2“Conventional sweet potato tuber yield decreased by 40% under 31% shading and further under 49% shading”
Title
Noriko Maruyama; Mizuki Nozawa; Hironori Tomioka; et al. npj Sustainable Agriculture 2026. doi:10.1038/s44264-025-00121-w
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- Intervention effect Rice grain yield remained stable under 27% shading.
- Intervention effect Soybean seed yield decreased by 30% under 33% shading.
- Intervention effect Conventional sweet potato tuber yield decreased by 40% under 31% shading.
- Intervention effect Conventional sweet potato tuber yield decreased further under 49% shading.
- Intervention effect Organic sweet potato tuber yield decreased by 26–51% in 2023 under 40% shading, varying by cultivar.
- Intervention effect Organic sweet potato tuber yield decreased by 18–65% in 2024 under 40% shading, varying by cultivar.
- Intervention effect All crops increased plant height under agrivoltaic systems as a shade avoidance response.
- Intervention effect All crops elevated shoot-to-root ratios under agrivoltaic systems as a shade avoidance response.
- Association Among sweet potato cultivars, the degree of yield reduction was linked to the intensity of shade avoidance responses.
- Intervention effect Weed control timing did not significantly affect yield of sweet potato.