Claim · model-written summary
Millet plant characters correlated too weakly with yield advantage to identify desired intercropping characters.
- Taxon
- millete0
- Material
- millet plant characterse0
- Outcome
- Correlations between yield advantage and a range of millet plant characterse0
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Verbatim
e0“Correlations between yield advantage and a range of millet plant characters did little to help identify which characters were most desirable in intercropping.”
Title
R. W. Willey; M. R. Rao Open Access Repository of ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) 1981
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- Observation Intercropped sorghum yielded 82 to 99% of sole crop yield, without significant genotype differences.
- Observation Pigeon pea genotypes yielded 36 to 73% of their sole crop yields.
- Observation The sorghum and pigeon pea intercrop reached a land equivalent ratio of 1.66.
- Association Sole crop pigeon pea yield accounted for 40% of variation in intercrop yield.
- Recommendation An early compact and later spreading pigeon pea type appeared most suitable for intercropping.
- Observation Pearl millet and groundnut genotype combinations achieved yield advantages up to 25-30%.
- Association Groundnut genotype mainly determined the magnitude of millet groundnut yield advantage.
- Association Millet genotype mainly determined the groundnut to millet yield proportion.
- Observation Later sorghum millet genotype combinations achieved yield advantage just over 30%.
- Recommendation The authors considered sorghum and millet intercropping particularly worthy of further study.