Claim · model-written summary
Proper cattle manure composting is recommended to mitigate weed proliferation and enhance sustainable maize production.
- Outcome
- mitigate weed proliferation and enhance sustainable maize productione1
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Proper cattle manure composting is essential to mitigate weed proliferation and enhance sustainable maize production”
Title
Temnotfo L. Mncube; Ethel E. Phiri; Henry R. Mloza-Banda; et al. The Journal of Agricultural Science 2026. doi:10.1017/s0021859625100488
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Cattle manure only gave higher weed species richness and diversity than the inorganic fertiliser only regime.
- Intervention effect Cattle manure plus inorganic fertiliser gave higher weed species richness and diversity than the inorganic fertiliser only regime.
- Observation Weed seed distribution did not differ between sampling depths.
- Intervention effect Weed seed distribution did not differ between fertiliser regimes.
- Observation Twelve weed species, including bermudagrass, crabgrass and goosegrass, were key contributors to the differences in species composition between fertiliser regimes and agroecological zones.
- Observation The twelve key weed species were the most prevalent weeds in the seed bank.