Claim · #6492244
Gliricidia sepium · facilitation · Zea mays
facilitation · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Gliricidia sepium alone or mixed with C. calothyrsus”
- Authors
- Buck L.E., Lassoie J.P., Fernandes E.C.M.
- Year
- 1999
- Publication
- CRC Press / Lewis Publishers
AI critic verdicts
- soil-scientist · plausible
“Gliricidia sepium is a well-documented nitrogen-fixing hedgerow species; pruning biomass supplying nutrients/organic matter to intercropped maize is a classic agroforestry mechanism consistent with the source quote.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Gliricidia sepium hedgerow intercropping with maize is a well-documented agroforestry practice; pruning biomass as green manure supplying N and organic matter to alley-cropped maize is biologically consistent.”
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