Abstract
An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of conservation tillage (CT) practices on leaf chlorophyll content, sugars and yields of Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L. for two consecutive cropping seasons at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization farm in Embu County, Kenya. The experimental design was a Randomized Complete Block Design with 9 treatments replicated 3 times. The treatments were, conventional tillage sole maize, zero tillage sole maize, Furrows/Ridges sole maize, conventional tillage sole bean, zero tillage sole bean, furrows and ridges sole bean, conventional tillage maize-bean intercrop, zero tillage maize-bean intercrop, furrows/ridges maize-bean intercrop. Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L. plants grown under the CT plots had significantly more chlorophyll content, more sugar content and more grain weight than those under conventional tillage practices (CVT). The results provided a physiological basis for the observed increase in yields. They led to a conclusion that the CT method is suitable for improving crop productivity through enhancing physiological functions in the leaf. Key words: Conservation tillage, chlorophyll, grain weigh.
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Claim · model-written summary
Plants under conservation tillage had significantly more leaf chlorophyll content than under conventional tillage
- Taxon
- Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L.
Phaseolus vulgaris
Zea mayse1 - Treatment
- CT plotse1
- Outcome
- chlorophyll contente1
- Direction
- moree1
- Comparator
- conventional tillage practicese1
- Setting
- Embu County, Kenyae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization farm in Embu County, Kenya”
e1“Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L. plants grown under the CT plots had significantly more chlorophyll content, more sugar content and more grain weight than those under conventional tillage practices (CVT)”
Claim · model-written summary
Plants under conservation tillage had significantly more sugar content than under conventional tillage
- Taxon
- Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L.Phaseolus vulgarisZea mayse1
- Treatment
- CT plotse1
- Outcome
- sugar contente1
- Direction
- moree1
- Comparator
- conventional tillage practicese1
- Setting
- Embu County, Kenyae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization farm in Embu County, Kenya”
e1“Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L. plants grown under the CT plots had significantly more chlorophyll content, more sugar content and more grain weight than those under conventional tillage practices (CVT)”
Claim · model-written summary
Plants under conservation tillage had significantly more grain weight than under conventional tillage
- Taxon
- Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L.Phaseolus vulgarisZea mayse1
- Treatment
- CT plotse1
- Outcome
- grain weighte1
- Direction
- moree1
- Comparator
- conventional tillage practicese1
- Setting
- Embu County, Kenyae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization farm in Embu County, Kenya”
e1“Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L. plants grown under the CT plots had significantly more chlorophyll content, more sugar content and more grain weight than those under conventional tillage practices (CVT)”
Claim · model-written summary
Conservation tillage increased crop yields compared with conventional tillage
- Taxon
- Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L.Phaseolus vulgarisZea mayse1
- Treatment
- CT plotse1
- Outcome
- yieldse2
- Direction
- increasee2
- Comparator
- conventional tillage practicese1
- Setting
- Embu County, Kenyae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization farm in Embu County, Kenya”
e1“Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L. plants grown under the CT plots had significantly more chlorophyll content, more sugar content and more grain weight than those under conventional tillage practices (CVT)”
e2“The results provided a physiological basis for the observed increase in yields”
Claim · model-written summary
Conservation tillage is suitable for improving crop productivity through leaf physiological functions
- Taxon
- Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L.Phaseolus vulgarisZea mayse1
- Outcome
- improving crop productivitye3
- Setting
- Embu County, Kenyae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization farm in Embu County, Kenya”
e1“Zea mays L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L. plants grown under the CT plots had significantly more chlorophyll content, more sugar content and more grain weight than those under conventional tillage practices (CVT)”
e3“They led to a conclusion that the CT method is suitable for improving crop productivity through enhancing physiological functions in the leaf”
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