Claim · model-written summary
Maize-soybean intercropping improved soil urease and catalase activities.
- Taxon
- Maize/soybean
Glycine max
Zea mayst0 - Treatment
- maize-soybean intercroppinge7
- Outcome
- urease (UE), and catalase (CT)e7
- Direction
- improvede7
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Verbatim
t0“Maize/soybean intercropping”
e7“Such maize-soybean intercropping treatments also improved the soil enzymatic activities such as protease (PT), sucrose (SC), acid phosphatase (AP), urease (UE), and catalase (CT) activities”
Title
Jamal Nasar; Munir Ahmad; Harun Gitari; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2024. doi:10.1186/s12870-024-05061-0
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Maize intercropping gave higher maize crop yield, biomass dry matter and 1000-grain weight than mono-cropping.
- Intervention effect N 1 MI gave the maximum maize grain yield (10,105 and 11,705 kg ha −1 in 2021 and 2022).
- Intervention effect N 1 MI gave the maximum maize biomass dry matter (13,893 and 14,093 kg ha −1 in 2021 and 2022).
- Intervention effect N 1 MI gave the maximum maize 1000-grain weight (420 and 449 g in 2021 and 2022).
- Intervention effect Soybean intercropping reduced soybean yield parameters.
- Observation The land equivalent ratio and the land equivalent ratio for N fertilization were always greater than 1 in the maize/soybean intercropping.
- Intervention effect Maize intercropping enhanced maize nutrient uptake relative to mono-cropping.
- Intervention effect Soybean intercropping enhanced soybean nutrient uptake relative to mono-cropping.
- Intervention effect Maize-soybean intercropping improved soil-based N, P and K.
- Intervention effect Maize-soybean intercropping improved soil NH4, NO3 and soil organic matter.
- Intervention effect Maize-soybean intercropping reduced soil pH.
- Intervention effect Maize-soybean intercropping improved soil protease, sucrose and acid phosphatase activities.
- Recommendation Intercropping is preferable to mono-cropping for ecologically viable agricultural development.