Claim · model-written summary
Sorghum growth was enhanced in mixed cropping regardless of spacing.
- Treatment
- mixed croppinge0
- Outcome
- sorghum growthe0
- Direction
- enhancemente0
- Qualifier
- regardless of spacinge0
- Comparator
- mono-croppinge0
- Setting
- Field experimentse1
SorghumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleValue
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Verbatim
e0“Dry matter production was consistently greater in mixed cropping than in mono-cropping, mainly due to the enhancement of sorghum growth regardless of spacing”
e1“Field experiments were conducted”
Title
Kounosuke Fujita; Shoitsu Ogata; Katsushi Matsumoto; et al. Soil Science & Plant Nutrition 1990. doi:10.1080/00380768.1990.10414988
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Dry matter production was greater in soybean and sorghum mixed cropping than in mono-cropping.
- Association Dinitrogen-fixing activity in soybean decreased as plant population density increased.
- Association Dinitrogen-fixing activity in soybean decreased with mixed cropping.
- Association Sorghum growth was closely related to the N accumulated in the plant.
- Observation N-transfer from soybean to sorghum accounted for 32 to 58% of the total nitrogen in sorghum.
- Association N-transfer from soybean was greatest at the 12.5 × 12.5 cm spacing.
- Association Dinitrogen-fixing activity in soybean was reduced at the 12.5 × 12.5 cm spacing.
- Association N-transfer becomes significant when other N sources are limited.
- Mechanism Relative proximity of the root systems of associated grass and legume is essential for N-transfer from the legume to the grass.