Claim · model-written summary
Intercropped lentil had a >50% reduction in mean root rot severity compared with its monoculture.
- Taxon
- lentil
Lens culinarise0 - Treatment
- intercroppede0
- Outcome
- mean root rot severitye0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Value
- >50%e0
- Comparator
- its monoculturee0
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Verbatim
e0“For intercropped lentil, there was a >50% reduction in the mean root rot severity, and an 11% reduction in the isolation of total Fusarium species, compared to its monoculture”
Title
Root rot suppression mechanisms in lentil promoted by organic intercropping
Myriam R. Fernandez; Lobna Abdellatif; Noe Waelchli; et al. Crop Science 2026. doi:10.1002/csc2.70238
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Intercropped lentil had an 11% reduction in the isolation of total Fusarium species compared with its monoculture.
- Intervention effect Antagonist fungi were 84% higher in lentil intercropped with a full mustard ratio than in its monoculture.
- Intervention effect Root rot in pea intercropped with oat was mostly higher than in the pea monoculture.
- Observation Multiple pathogens and saprophytes were associated with the intercrops and monocultures, most being Fusarium species.
- Mechanism Disease suppression in intercropped lentil might be attributed to allelopathy from mustard increasing fungi with biocontrol potential.
- Mechanism Higher root rot in pea intercropped with oat was attributed to the prevalence of similar species, including Fusarium pathogens, common to both crop species.