Claim · model-written summary
Intercrop performance was similar to sole crops, with LER 1.03–1.08.
- Outcome
- land equivalent ratio (LER)e0
- Direction
- slightly greatere0
- Value
- 1.03–1.08e0
- Comparator
- sole cropse0
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Verbatim
e0“Overall intercrop performance was similar to that of sole crops, with the land equivalent ratio (LER) being only slightly greater than one (1.03–1.08)”
Title
Shuangwei Li; Jochem B. Evers; Wopke van der Werf; et al. Annals of Applied Biology 2020. doi:10.1111/aab.12610
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Intercropped maize had greater leaf area, biomass and yield than sole maize.
- Intervention effect Intercropped soybean had lower leaf area, biomass and yield than sole soybean.
- Observation Intercropped soybean displayed shade avoidance including internode elongation and changed specific leaf area.
- Mechanism Soybean architectural changes could not overcome competition with taller maize.
- Observation Plastic responses did not yield practically relevant system-level resource capture or yield gains.