Cover crop legacy impacts on soil water and nitrogen dynamics, and on subsequent crop yields in drylands: a meta-analysis

II Garba, LW Bell, A Williams - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2022 - Springer
Cover crops can provide a wide range of ecosystem services including soil water
conservation, improved soil nutrient supply and retention, and enhanced crop yields …

The potential of cover crops for weed management: a sole tool or component of an integrated weed management system?

M Fernando, A Shrestha - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cover crops are an important component of integrated weed management programs in
annual and perennial cropping systems because of their weed suppressive abilities. They …

Assessing long‐term impacts of cover crops on soil organic carbon in the central US Midwestern agroecosystems

Z Qin, K Guan, W Zhou, B Peng, J Tang… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cover crops have been reported as one of the most effective practices to increase soil
organic carbon (SOC) for agroecosystems. Impacts of cover crops on SOC change vary …

Prospects for summer cover crops in southern Australian semi-arid cropping systems

TJ Rose, S Parvin, E Han, J Condon, BM Flohr… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Cover crops are widely promoted in temperate regions of the northern
hemisphere to replace or reduce fallow periods between cash crops. The reported benefits …

The effects of winter cover crops on maize yield and crop performance in semiarid conditions—Artificial neural network approach

B Vojnov, G Jaćimović, S Šeremešić, L Pezo, B Lončar… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Maize is the most widespread and, along with wheat, the most important staple crop in the
Republic of Serbia, which is of great significance for ensuring national food security. With the …

Soil health indicator responses to three years of cover crop and crop rotation in a northern semi-arid region, the Canadian prairies

Q Wu, Y Lawley, KA Congreves - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing crop diversity via cover cropping is considered a powerful strategy to improve soil
health; thus, a better understanding of the impacts on soil is crucial. In northern semi-arid …

Cover crops and preemergence herbicides: An integrated approach for weed management in corn-soybean systems in the US Midwest

KR Grint, NJ Arneson, F Arriaga, R DeWerff… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adoption of a fall established, high biomass cereal rye cover crop has potential to diversify
weed management in corn and soybean production systems, reducing the selection …

Induced systemic tolerance mediated by plant-microbe interaction in maize (Zea mays L.) plants under hydrocarbon contamination

U Ummara, S Noreen, M Afzal, ZU Zafar, MS Akhter… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The present investigation was committed to examining the effect of soil spiked with diesel
contamination (0, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 g diesel kg− 1 soil) on maize (Zea mays L) varieties (MMRI …

Fallow replacement cover crops impact soil water and nitrogen dynamics in a semi-arid sub-tropical environment

II Garba, D Fay, R Apriani, DYP Yusof, D Chu… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Conventional dryland cropping systems rely upon frequent and lengthy fallow periods to
conserve soil water and mineral nitrogen to stabilize crop production. However, this is …

Global synthesis of cover crop impacts on main crop yield

Y Peng, L Wang, PA Jacinthe, W Ren - Field Crops Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Incorporating cover crops into farming systems represents a potential pathway to
maintaining crop productivity and achieving multiple environmental benefits. However, how …