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IT has been demonstrated by Roy1 that two varieties of rice, when grown in mixture, may influence the yield of each other, and that the effect is nearly as often favourable as unfavourable. Certain mixtures yield more than the means of the two components grown in monoculture, and occasionally even exceed the better components in yield.
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GRÜMMER, G., ROY, S. Intervarietal Mixtures of Rice and Incidence of Brown-spot Disease (Helminthosporium oryzae Breda de Haan). Nature 209, 1265–1267 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091265b0
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