Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping promoted soybean root morphological traits.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe0 - Treatment
- intercroppinge0
- Outcome
- root morphology traitse0
- Direction
- promotede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“root morphology traits of soybean were promoted, whereas these parameters in rice were inhibited by intercropping”
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 increased soybean yield by 24% averaged across 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 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.