Claim · model-written summary
Fresh and dry forage yields of cowpea were lower when intercropped with maize than in sole cowpea.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae6 - Treatment
- intercropping with maizee6
- Outcome
- Fresh and dry forage yieldse6
- Direction
- lowere6
- Comparator
- sole cowpeae0
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The experiment comprised of three treatments (sole cowpea, sole maize and cowpea-maize intercrop)”
e6“Fresh and dry forage yields of cowpea were lower in intercropping with maize than sole”
Title
W. A. Hamd Alla; E. M. Shalaby; R. A. Dawood; et al. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2015. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1326836
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect In the cowpea-maize intercrop, maize had higher plant height, ears per plant and rows per ear than sole maize.
- Intervention effect In the cowpea-maize intercrop, maize had higher numbers of grains per row, grain weight per ear and 100-grain weight than sole maize.
- Intervention effect In the cowpea-maize intercrop, maize had higher straw and grain yields than sole maize.
- Observation The total Land Equivalent Ratio between cowpea and maize in the intercrop was 1.65.
- Observation Maize had an aggressivity of 0.45 in the cowpea-maize intercrop.
- Observation Cowpea had an aggressivity of -0.45 in the cowpea-maize intercrop.
- Observation Maize was the dominant crop and cowpea the dominated crop in the intercrop.
- Observation Maize had a Competitive Ratio of 1.75 in the intercrop, more competitive than cowpea.
- Observation Cowpea had a Competitive Ratio of 0.57 in the intercrop, lower than maize.
- Observation Maize had an Actual Yield Loss of 0.05 in the intercrop.
- Observation Cowpea had an Actual Yield Loss of -0.40 in the intercrop.
- Observation The Monetary Advantage Index of the cowpea-maize intercrop was 2360.80.