Claim · model-written summary
A short, early-maturing cassava cultivar with moderate LAI is better adapted to vegetable mixtures.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentae0 - Material
- short, early-maturing cassava cultivar with a moderate LAIe0
- Outcome
- better adapted in mixture with vegetablese0
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Verbatim
e0“A short, early-maturing cassava cultivar with a moderate LAI is better adapted in mixture with vegetables.”
Title
Soil temperature and moisture content changes with growth and yield of cassava/vegetable intercrops
A.W. Salau; F.O. Olasantan; J.G. Bodunde; et al. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 2014. doi:10.1080/03650340.2014.939958
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced weed dry weight.
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced soil temperature.
- Intervention effect Intercropping increased soil moisture, light interception and earthworm casts.
- Intervention effect Cassava/pumpkin intercropping increased soil moisture, light interception and earthworm casts relative to cassava/okra and cassava/pepper.
- Intervention effect Cassava/pumpkin intercropping reduced soil temperature and weed dry weight relative to the other vegetable intercrops.
- Intervention effect Vegetative characters and fruit yields of okra, pepper and pumpkin were unaffected by intercropping.
- Intervention effect Cassava leaf area index was reduced when intercropped with pumpkin.
- Intervention effect Cassava leaf area index was not reduced when intercropped with okra or pepper.
- Observation Land equivalent ratio was higher in cassava/okra and cassava/pepper than cassava/pumpkin intercrops.
- Recommendation Cassava/vegetable intercropping is a viable option for productivity and microenvironment.