Claim · model-written summary
Authors conclude combined organic fertilizer and irrigation can improve grain output and quality.
- Taxon
- maize and mung bean
Zea mays
Vigna radiatat0 - Outcome
- optimizing the combination of organic fertilizers and irrigation practicese0
- Qualifier
- grain output and qualitye0
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e0“In conclusion, optimizing the combination of organic fertilizers and irrigation practices is a win-win strategy that can enhance both grain output and quality.”
t0“maize and mung bean”
Title
Mengfan Gao; Xinxin Wang; Renqiang Chen; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2025. doi:10.3389/fpls.2025.1597198
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Observation Maize leaf area index and chlorophyll content rose then fell with emergence time.
- Observation Mung bean leaf area index and chlorophyll content rose then fell with emergence time.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer raised maize leaf area index by 5.99%–36.70%.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer raised mung bean leaf area index by 27.43%–28.72%.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer raised maize chlorophyll content by 2.31%–3.47%.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer raised mung bean chlorophyll content by 4.59%–4.63%.
- Intervention effect Irrigation treatment raised maize leaf area index by 9.73%–33.42% versus I 0.
- Intervention effect Irrigation treatment raised mung bean leaf area index by 6.60%–17.39% versus I 0.
- Intervention effect Irrigation treatment raised maize chlorophyll content by 2.75%–12.68% versus I 0.
- Intervention effect Irrigation treatment raised mung bean chlorophyll content by 4.14%–9.12% versus I 0.
- Observation Gas exchange and absorbance first rose and then fell over emergence time in maize and mung bean.
- Observation Maize net photosynthetic rate increased by 5.04%–47.12%.
- Observation Mung bean net photosynthetic rate increased by 11.29%–26.60%.
- Association Maize Pn correlated strongly with chlorophyll content and absorbance.
- Observation Three-dimensional Pn curves with chlorophyll content and absorbance were S-shaped.
- Mechanism Leaf aging and declining chlorophyll and absorbance accompanied a decrease in maize Pn.
- Association Crop water use efficiency rose then fell with increasing irrigation volume.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer significantly improved water use efficiency in the intercrop.