Claim · #6495302
Glycine max · mutualism · Zea mays
mutualism · effect: beneficial
mutualistOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Intercropping maize and soybean increases efficiency of land and fertilizer nitrogen use”
- 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
- 6
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Maize-soybean strip intercropping with LER ~1.29 matches published Chinese meta-analyses (Yu, Li); mutualism via N + light/space niche differentiation sound.”
- soil-scientist · plausible
“Soybean (Bradyrhizobium japonicum) N2 fixation supporting maize N use efficiency is canonical; LER value within published range; mechanism correct.”
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