Claim · model-written summary
Authors recommend intercropping maize with coriander to trap aphids and protect against SCMV.
- Interactor
- SCMV
Sugarcane mosaic viruse0pathogen - Second interactor
- corn leaf aphids
Rhopalosiphum maidise0pest - Outcome
- intercropped with coriandere0
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“maize should be intercropped with coriander due to its potential to trap corn leaf aphids and protect maize from SCMV”
Title
E. S. Namikoye; G. M. Kariuki; Z. M. Kinyua; et al. East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal 2017. doi:10.1080/00128325.2018.1456298
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Sorghum border was the only companion crop positive for MCMV.
- Observation No companion crop tested positive for SCMV.
- Intervention effect Maize intercropped with elephant grass had the least disease incidence.
- Intervention effect Maize intercropped with elephant grass yielded less.
- Observation Corn thrips preferred coriander among companion plants.
- Observation Corn leaf aphids preferred coriander among companion plants.
- Observation Maize in every cropping system tested positive for MCMV.
- Observation Maize grown with coriander tested negative for SCMV.
- Intervention effect Sorghum bordered plots yielded similarly to maize monoculture.
- Intervention effect Coriander bordered plots yielded similarly to maize monoculture.
- Recommendation Authors recommend sorghum borders to maximize maize yield where MLND is prevalent.