Claim · #6492194
Gliricidia sepium · facilitation · Arachis hypogaea
facilitation · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“alley cropping system involving Gliricidia sepium with maize and groundnut produced 1.1 Mg/ha/yr of root biomass”
- Authors
- Buck L.E., Lassoie J.P., Fernandes E.C.M.
- Year
- 1999
- Publication
- CRC Press / Lewis Publishers
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Gliricidia sepium is a well-documented nitrogen-fixing alley cropping tree; 1.1 Mg/ha/yr root biomass in 0-50 cm depth is agronomically reasonable for this species.”
- soil-scientist · plausible
“1.1 Mg/ha/yr root biomass in 0-50 cm for Gliricidia alley cropping is biologically reasonable; source quote supports the structured claim.”
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