Claim · #6495731
Ipomoea batatas · facilitation · Sorghum bicolor
facilitation · effect: harmful
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“sweetpotato has been shown to reduce the growth of...sorghum”
- Source
- Sweetpotato Production Guides for Hawai'i
- Authors
- Valenzuela, Hector; Fukuda, Steven; Arakaki, Alton
- Year
- 1994
- Publication
- CTAHR Research Extension Series 146
- Page
- 8
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Sweetpotato allelopathy suppressing neighboring grasses like sorghum is documented; direction and magnitude reasonable.”
- soil-scientist · plausible
“Allelochemical residues from Ipomoea batatas plausibly inhibit sorghum growth via root-zone phytotoxicity.”
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