Abstract
SUMMARY In each of the crops studied, weeding increased grain yield, weeding 2 weeks after sowing being better than weeding either four or eight weeks after sowing and weeding two and four weeks after sowing being better than weeding either two and eight weeks or four and eight weeks aftersowing. Weeding thrice (two, four and eight weeks after sowing) was significantly superior to all the other weeding treatments. Weeding increased leaf area index, dry weight of side and mainstem and number of mature pods at harvest in green gram and cowpeas. In sorghum, apart from increasing leaf area index, it also increased the length of ears and grain weight per unit lengthof ear. The weeding treatments affected grain yield in cowpeas and green gram due totheir influence on leaf area development, development of the main and side stems and on the number of mature pods produced at harvest. The effect of the weeding treatments on grain yield of sorghum was due to their influence on leaf area development, length of ear and grain weight perunit length of ear.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Weeding increased grain yield in each crop studied.
- Taxon
- sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)
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Vigna radiata var. radiata
Vigna unguiculata
Sorghum bicolort0 - Treatment
- weedinge1
- Outcome
- grain yielde1
- Direction
- increasede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
t0“sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)”
e1“In each of the crops studied, weeding increased grain yield”
Claim · model-written summary
Weeding two weeks after sowing gave better grain yield than weeding four or eight weeks after sowing.
- Taxon
- sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)Vigna radiata var. radiataVigna unguiculataSorghum bicolort0
- Treatment
- weeding 2 weeks after sowinge2
- Outcome
- grain yielde1
- Direction
- bettere2
- Comparator
- weeding either four or eight weeks after sowinge2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)”
e1“In each of the crops studied, weeding increased grain yield”
e2“weeding 2 weeks after sowing being better than weeding either four or eight weeks after sowing”
Claim · model-written summary
Weeding thrice at two, four and eight weeks after sowing was significantly superior to all other weeding treatments.
- Taxon
- sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)Vigna radiata var. radiataVigna unguiculataSorghum bicolort0
- Treatment
- Weeding thrice (two, four and eight weeks after sowing)e3
- Direction
- significantly superiore3
- Comparator
- all the other weeding treatmentse3
Not reportedOutcome
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Verbatim
t0“sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)”
e3“Weeding thrice (two, four and eight weeks after sowing) was significantly superior to all the other weeding treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Weeding increased leaf area index, dry weight of side and mainstem and number of mature pods in green gram and cowpeas.
- Taxon
- green gram and cowpeasVigna radiata var. radiataVigna unguiculatae4
- Treatment
- Weedinge4
- Outcome
- leaf area indexe4
- Direction
- increasede4
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)”
e4“Weeding increased leaf area index, dry weight of side and mainstem and number of mature pods at harvest in green gram and cowpeas”
Claim · model-written summary
In sorghum, weeding increased ear length and grain weight per unit ear length.
SorghumNot reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)”
e1“In each of the crops studied, weeding increased grain yield”
e5“In sorghum, apart from increasing leaf area index, it also increased the length of ears and grain weight per unit lengthof ear”
Claim · model-written summary
Weeding affected grain yield in cowpeas and green gram through its influence on leaf area development.
- Taxon
- cowpeasVigna unguiculatae6
- Treatment
- weeding treatmentse6
- Outcome
- grain yielde6
- Qualifier
- their influence on leaf area developmente6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) and green gram (Vigna aureus)”
e6“The weeding treatments affected grain yield in cowpeas and green gram due totheir influence on leaf area development”
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