Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping with hairy vetch and winter rye decreased soil bulk density.
- Treatment
- Intercropping with hairy vetch and winter ryee4
- Outcome
- soil bulk densitye4
- Direction
- decreasede4
- Comparator
- maize monoculturee5
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Verbatim
e4“Intercropping with hairy vetch and winter rye decreased soil bulk density, and increased soil particle porosity, available N and potassium levels and urease and catalase activity”
e5“Compared to maize monoculture, intercropping with hairy vetch significantly enhanced the soil total nitrogen content and invertase activity”
t0“Maintenance of Maize Yield and Soil Fertility”
Title
Xinhe Shan; Xianguo Wang; Yunlong Zhang; et al. Soil Use and Management 2026. doi:10.1111/sum.70205
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Winter rye intercropping significantly decreased maize yield by 18.4% compared with maize monoculture.
- Intervention effect Intercropping with hairy vetch and winter rye increased soil particle porosity, available N and potassium levels.
- Intervention effect Intercropping with hairy vetch and winter rye increased urease and catalase activity.
- Intervention effect Intercropping with hairy vetch significantly enhanced soil total nitrogen content and invertase activity compared with maize monoculture.
- Intervention effect Intercropping with hairy vetch and winter rye significantly improved the soil fertility index.
- Intervention effect The soil fertility index was higher with intercrop sowing at S1 than at S2.