Claim · model-written summary
Increasing climbing bean populations increased grain and dry matter yields.
- Taxon
- climbing beanse0
- Treatment
- Increasing populations of maize and climbing beanse0
- Outcome
- grain and DM yieldse0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Increasing populations of maize and climbing beans increased grain and DM yields”
Title
Intercropping Maize with Climbing Beans, Cowpeas and Velvet Beans
W. B. Bryan; M. B. Materu Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 1987. doi:10.1111/j.1439-037x.1987.tb00096.x
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Climbing beans contributed up to 5% of total dry matter in the first intercrop experiment.
- Observation Climbing beans contributed 20% of total dry matter in the second experiment.
- Observation Cowpeas contributed 12% of total dry matter in the second experiment.
- Observation Velvet beans contributed 8% of total dry matter in the second experiment.
- Intervention effect Increasing maize populations increased grain and dry matter yields.
- Intervention effect Intercropping lowered maize dry matter yield.
- Intervention effect Total intercrop dry matter yield did not differ from sole maize.
- Intervention effect Maize with cowpeas yielded more dry matter than maize with climbing beans.
- Intervention effect Cowpeas increased total crude protein yield by over 15% relative to maize alone.
- Intervention effect Cowpea intercropping did not lower total dry matter compared with maize alone.
- Recommendation The authors consider cowpeas promising for intercropping with maize.
- Recommendation The authors consider climbing beans of little promise for intercropping with maize.