Abstract
SUMMARY Intercropping maize or sorghum with pigeon peas, cowpeas or beans led to a reduction in leaf area indices, fresh weight yield at time of anthesis, straw yield at harvest and grain yield of the cereal crops. In sorghum, pigeon peas and cowpeas had a greater adverse effect on grain yield than beans, but with maize, beans and cowpeas had a more adverse effect on grain yield than pigeon peas. While intercropping maize with either beans or cowpeas decreased total yield of grain (cereal and legume) per hectare, intercropping sorghum with pigeon peas increased total grain yield per hectare.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping maize or sorghum with legumes reduced leaf area indices, fresh weight yield at anthesis and straw yield.
- Treatment
- Intercropping maize or sorghum with pigeon peas, cowpeas or beanse0
- Outcome
- leaf area indices, fresh weight yield at time of anthesis, straw yield at harveste0
- Direction
- reductione0
Sorghum
Zea maysNot reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Intercropping maize or sorghum with pigeon peas, cowpeas or beans led to a reduction in leaf area indices, fresh weight yield at time of anthesis, straw yield at harvest and grain yield of the cereal crops”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping maize or sorghum with legumes reduced grain yield of the cereal crops.
- Treatment
- Intercropping maize or sorghum with pigeon peas, cowpeas or beanse0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- reductione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Intercropping maize or sorghum with pigeon peas, cowpeas or beans led to a reduction in leaf area indices, fresh weight yield at time of anthesis, straw yield at harvest and grain yield of the cereal crops”
Claim · model-written summary
In sorghum, pigeon peas and cowpeas had a greater adverse effect on grain yield than beans.
- Treatment
- pigeon peas and cowpease1
- Outcome
- grain yielde1
- Direction
- greater adverse effecte1
- Comparator
- beanse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“In sorghum, pigeon peas and cowpeas had a greater adverse effect on grain yield than beans”
Claim · model-written summary
With maize, beans and cowpeas had a more adverse effect on grain yield than pigeon peas.
- Treatment
- beans and cowpease2
- Outcome
- grain yielde2
- Direction
- more adverse effecte2
- Comparator
- pigeon pease2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e2“with maize, beans and cowpeas had a more adverse effect on grain yield than pigeon peas”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping maize with beans or cowpeas decreased total grain yield per hectare.
- Treatment
- beans or cowpease3
- Outcome
- total yield of grain (cereal and legume) per hectaree3
- Direction
- decreasede3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“intercropping maize with either beans or cowpeas decreased total yield of grain (cereal and legume) per hectare”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping sorghum with pigeon peas increased total grain yield per hectare.
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“intercropping sorghum with pigeon peas increased total grain yield per hectare”
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