Claim · #6495732
Ipomoea batatas · facilitation · Fabaceae (family)
facilitation · effect: harmful
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Sweetpotato residues may prevent nodulation in nitrogen fixing crops”
- Source
- Sweetpotato Production Guides for Hawai'i
- Authors
- Valenzuela, Hector; Fukuda, Steven; Arakaki, Alton
- Year
- 1994
- Publication
- CTAHR Research Extension Series 146
- Page
- 4
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Sweetpotato allelopathy interfering with legume nodulation is reported; harmful direction matches source quote.”
- soil-scientist · plausible
“Allelochemicals can suppress rhizobial nodulation; quote and mechanism align though evidence is hedged ('may').”
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