Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping maize and legumes considerably reduced weed density in the intercrop compared with the maize pure stand.
- Treatment
- Intercropping maize and legumese0
- Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- weed densitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- maize pure stande0
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Intercropping maize and legumes considerably reduced the weed density in the intercrop compared with the maize pure stand”
Title
Weed-suppressive effects of maize–legume intercropping in organic farming
Dimitrios Bilalis; Panayiota Papastylianou; Aristidis Konstantas; et al. International Journal of Pest Management 2010. doi:10.1080/09670870903304471
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Association Weed density and weed dry matter were significantly negatively correlated with the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation intercepted by the canopy.
- Intervention effect Maize–legume intercropping led to a higher soil canopy cover (leaf area index) than sole crops.
- Observation The lowest values of intercepted photosynthetically active radiation (F int PAR) were found in sole crops.
- Intervention effect In maize–legume intercrops the decrease in available light for weeds led to a reduction of weed density and dry matter compared with sole crops.
- Association Weed suppression by crops was greater on a low-productivity site than on a high-productivity site.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that intercropping could be useful for weed suppression in organic row-crops such as maize and cotton.