Abstract
An intercropping experiment of sorghum/cowpea intercrops was carried out in summer season of 2009 and 2010 at Agricultural and Research Station, College of Food Science and Agriculture, King Saud University. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the growth and yield potential of sorghum/cowpea intercrops over sole cropping pattern. The experiments included 18 treatments three sorghum varieties, i.e., two semi dwarfs (Pioneer and S-1007) and a tall one local variety (Shahlaa), theses varieties were planted in two cropping patterns as solid culture at the densities of 200, 300 and 400 10 3 plants/hectare for semi dwarfs varieties, whereas tall variety at 160,240 and 320 10 3 plants/hectare. These densities for the three varieties are equal to 100, 150 and 200 % of the solid recommended culture .The intercropping was alternating two rows of grain sorghum with other rows of cowpea ( The data obtained indicated that sorghum plants, when intercropped with cowpea, exhibited greater potentiality and recorded higher values of most of the studied criteria viz., plant height, number of leaves per plant, stem diameter, leaf area, dry matter accumulation and grain yield /plant .Grain yield per hectare was lower in intercropping pattern than solid pattern. The increase in grain yield per plant and plant density could not compensate the decrease of the area occupied by the crop under solid culture.
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Claim · model-written summary
Sorghum intercropped with cowpea had higher plant height, leaves per plant and stem diameter than sole cropping.
- Treatment
- intercropped with cowpeae1
- Outcome
- plant height, number of leaves per plant, stem diametere1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- sole cropping patterne3
- Setting
- Agricultural and Research Station, College of Food Science and Agriculture, King Saud Universitye0
SorghumOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“An intercropping experiment of sorghum/cowpea intercrops was carried out in summer season of 2009 and 2010 at Agricultural and Research Station, College of Food Science and Agriculture, King Saud University”
e1“sorghum plants, when intercropped with cowpea, exhibited greater potentiality and recorded higher values of most of the studied criteria viz., plant height, number of leaves per plant, stem diameter, leaf area, dry matter accumulation and grain yield /plant”
e3“evaluate the growth and yield potential of sorghum/cowpea intercrops over sole cropping pattern”
Claim · model-written summary
Sorghum intercropped with cowpea had higher leaf area, dry matter accumulation and grain yield per plant than sole cropping.
- Treatment
- intercropped with cowpeae1
- Outcome
- leaf area, dry matter accumulation and grain yield /plante1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- sole cropping patterne3
- Setting
- Agricultural and Research Station, College of Food Science and Agriculture, King Saud Universitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“An intercropping experiment of sorghum/cowpea intercrops was carried out in summer season of 2009 and 2010 at Agricultural and Research Station, College of Food Science and Agriculture, King Saud University”
e1“sorghum plants, when intercropped with cowpea, exhibited greater potentiality and recorded higher values of most of the studied criteria viz., plant height, number of leaves per plant, stem diameter, leaf area, dry matter accumulation and grain yield /plant”
e3“evaluate the growth and yield potential of sorghum/cowpea intercrops over sole cropping pattern”
Claim · model-written summary
Grain yield per hectare was lower in the intercropping pattern than in the solid pattern.
- Treatment
- intercropping patterne2
- Outcome
- Grain yield per hectaree2
- Direction
- lowere2
- Comparator
- solid patterne2
- Setting
- Agricultural and Research Station, College of Food Science and Agriculture, King Saud Universitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“An intercropping experiment of sorghum/cowpea intercrops was carried out in summer season of 2009 and 2010 at Agricultural and Research Station, College of Food Science and Agriculture, King Saud University”
e2“Grain yield per hectare was lower in intercropping pattern than solid pattern”
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