Maize Intercropping Effects on Plant Defenses and Herbivore Resistance

A 50.1 KB dataset from figshare, authored by Juan Pablo Jordán and last updated in April 2026. It contains results from a study on how intercropping with four companion plants affects constitutive and induced chemical defenses and herbivore resistance in maize.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between intercrop species and plant secondary metabolite production.
• Analyzing the effect of herbivore damage on induced defense expression in different intercropping contexts.
• Comparing the reliability of direct versus indirect plant defenses for pest control based on field-scale experiment results.
• Investigating the role of vegetation structure in biocontrol efficiency based on within-plant spatial separation data.

Strengths

• Data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for open reuse and redistribution.
• The study design includes both no-choice bioassays and field-scale experiments, providing multiple scales of evidence.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data file is a DOCX document, which may require extraction or conversion for analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Experimental data from bioassays and field-scale experiments.

Time Range

The temporal coverage of the underlying experiments is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 05:58:31

Geography

The geographic location of the field experiment is not specified.