Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping reduced melon growth and yields regardless of sowing date.
- Taxon
- melon
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Cucumis meloe0 - Treatment
- Intercroppinge0
- Outcome
- growth and yieldse0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Qualifier
- irrespective of the sowing datee0
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Verbatim
e0“Intercropping did not reduce the growth and yields of maize or cassava, but of melon irrespective of the sowing date.”
Title
F. O. Olasantan; O. A. Babalola Biological Agriculture & Horticulture 2007. doi:10.1080/01448765.2007.9755036
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Intercropping did not reduce maize or cassava growth and yields.
- Intervention effect Maize mixed stands reduced melon seed yield and components by 18–66%.
- Intervention effect Cassava mixed stands reduced melon seed yield and components by 8–31%.
- Intervention effect Early sowing enhanced melon rhizosphere fungal and bacterial populations.
- Intervention effect Early sowing enhanced melon growth and seed yield.
- Intervention effect Early melon sowing enhanced soil moisture.
- Intervention effect Late sowing reduced melon seed yield more than early sowing, especially in intercropping.
- Intervention effect Late sowing significantly reduced melon fruit number, seeds per fruit and seed yield across cropping systems.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping lowered soil temperature by 3.6–10.4 °C.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping lowered soil bulk density by 0.09–0.16 g cm3.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping raised soil moisture by 12–45 g kg1.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping increased maize rhizosphere fungal and bacterial populations by 10–20%.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping increased cassava rhizosphere fungal and bacterial populations by 38–46%.
- Observation Land equivalent ratios exceeded 1 for all crop combinations and sowing dates.
- Intervention effect Early melon sowing increased maize/melon mixture productivity by 46–55%.
- Intervention effect Early melon sowing increased cassava/melon mixture productivity by 69–75%.