Abstract
Intercropping is a viable option for weed management. Six maize–sorghum intercropping systems were compared in a two-year field study for the management of purple nutsedge. The intercropping systems included maize planting in 70-cm spaced rows intercropped with one row of dwarf or tall sorghum and maize in 105-cm spaced double-row strips intercropped with one or two rows of dwarf or tall sorghum; sole maize planted in 70-cm spaced single rows was used as a control. Two intercropping systems as maize in 70-cm spaced rows + one row of tall sorghum and maize in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + two rows of tall sorghum controlled purple nutsedge by 48 and 52% compared with the sole crop of maize, respectively. However, all the maize–sorghum intercropping systems decreased the maize grain yield compared with control. Maize planted in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + one row of dwarf sorghum was the best option because it reduced the maize yield by only 6%. However, the decrease in maize yield was compensated for by sorghum yield. Intercropping maize in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + one row of dwarf sorghum may be used for management of purple nutsedge in maize.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Maize in 70-cm rows with tall sorghum controlled purple nutsedge by 48% versus sole maize.
- Treatment
- maize in 70-cm spaced rows + one row of tall sorghume0
- Interactor
- purple nutsedgee0weed
- Outcome
- purple nutsedgee0
- Direction
- controllede0
- Value
- 48e0
- Comparator
- sole crop of maizee0
Zea maysOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“maize in 70-cm spaced rows + one row of tall sorghum and maize in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + two rows of tall sorghum controlled purple nutsedge by 48 and 52% compared with the sole crop of maize, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Maize in 105-cm double-row strips with two tall sorghum rows controlled purple nutsedge by 52% versus sole maize.
- Treatment
- maize in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + two rows of tall sorghume0
- Interactor
- purple nutsedgee0weed
- Outcome
- purple nutsedgee0
- Direction
- controllede0
- Value
- 52%e0
- Comparator
- sole crop of maizee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“maize in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + two rows of tall sorghum controlled purple nutsedge by 48 and 52% compared with the sole crop of maize, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
All maize–sorghum intercropping systems reduced maize grain yield versus control.
- Treatment
- maize–sorghum intercropping systemse0
- Outcome
- maize grain yielde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“all the maize–sorghum intercropping systems decreased the maize grain yield compared with control”
Claim · model-written summary
The dwarf sorghum double-row system reduced maize yield by only 6%.
- Treatment
- Maize planted in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + one row of dwarf sorghume0
- Outcome
- maize yielde0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 6%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Maize planted in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + one row of dwarf sorghum was the best option because it reduced the maize yield by only 6%”
Claim · model-written summary
Sorghum yield compensated for the reduction in maize yield.
- Outcome
- sorghum yielde0
SorghumOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the decrease in maize yield was compensated for by sorghum yield”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors propose the dwarf sorghum double-row system for purple nutsedge management.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Intercropping maize in 105-cm spaced double-row strips + one row of dwarf sorghum may be used for management of purple nutsedge in maize”
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