Claim · model-written summary
Biofertilizer plus biochar raised soil microbial respiration about 41% over control.
- Taxon
- COWPEA
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Treatment
- Biofertilizer + biochare0
- Outcome
- microbial respiratione0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 41%e0
- Comparator
- control soilse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Biofertilizer + biochar treated soils recorded high microbial respiration with about 41% increase over control soils.”
t0“PERFORMANCE OF COWPEA (Vigna unguiculata (L.)Walp)”
Title
L. B. Taiwo; K. T. Adesokun; F. T. Olatoberu; et al. Ife Journal of Agriculture 2018
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Biofertilizer plus biochar increased cowpea nodulation.
- Intervention effect Biofertilizer plus biochar increased cowpea plant height by about 13% versus control in the field.
- Intervention effect Biofertilizer plus biochar increased cowpea leaf number by about 53% versus control in the field.
- Intervention effect Biofertilizer plus biochar produced about 2% fewer pods than SSP.
- Intervention effect Biochar significantly increased soil exchangeable K and Mg.
- Intervention effect Biofertilizer alone significantly affected soil Ca and organic matter.