Claim · #6495297
Zea mays · facilitation · Arachis hypogaea
facilitation · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“pea... faba bean, soybean and peanut... most common companion species”
- Authors
- Li C., Hoffland E., Kuyper T.W., Yu Y., Zhang C., Li H., Zhang F., van der Werf W.
- Year
- 2020
- Publication
- Nature Plants
- Page
- 3
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Maize-peanut intercropping is well-documented C4/legume facilitation in Chinese systems; N2 fixation + niche differentiation mechanism is biologically sound.”
- soil-scientist · plausible
“Legume N2 fixation by Arachis (Bradyrhizobium symbiosis) complementing maize N demand is canonical soil-N facilitation; mechanism correct.”
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