[HTML][HTML] Intercropping—A low input agricultural strategy for food and environmental security

S Maitra, A Hossain, M Brestic, M Skalicky, P Ondrisik… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intensive agriculture is based on the use of high-energy inputs and quality planting materials
with assured irrigation, but it has failed to assure agricultural sustainability because of …

[HTML][HTML] Root traits with team benefits: understanding belowground interactions in intercropping systems

Z Homulle, TS George, AJ Karley - Plant and Soil, 2021 - Springer
Background The potential benefits of intercropping are manifold and have been repeatedly
demonstrated. Intercropping has the potential to create more productive and resilient …

间套作强化农田生态系统服务功能的研究进展与应用展望

李隆 - 中国生态农业学报(中英文), 2016 - ecoagri.ac.cn
间套作是我国传统农业的精髓, 其存在2 000 多年, 必然蕴含重要的科学原理.
过去的研究表明其不仅能够大幅度提高作物产量, 而且能够充分利用地上部的光热资源 …

Root exudates drive interspecific facilitation by enhancing nodulation and N2 fixation

B Li, YY Li, HM Wu, FF Zhang, CJ Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Plant diversity in experimental systems often enhances ecosystem productivity, but the
mechanisms causing this overyielding are only partly understood. Intercropping faba beans …

Designing intercrops for high yield, yield stability and efficient use of resources: Are there principles?

TJ Stomph, C Dordas, A Baranger, J de Rijk… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intercropping is the simultaneous cultivation of plant species in the same field for a
considerable proportion of their growing periods. Interest in intercropping for sustainable …

Grain legume production and use in European agricultural systems

CA Watson, M Reckling, S Preissel, J Bachinger… - Advances in …, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a great demand for high-protein materials for livestock feed in Europe and
European agriculture has a deficit of about 70% high-protein materials of which 87% is met …

Intercropping enhances soil carbon and nitrogen

WF Cong, E Hoffland, L Li, J Six, JH Sun… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Intercropping, the simultaneous cultivation of multiple crop species in a single field,
increases aboveground productivity due to species complementarity. We hypothesized that …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome convergence enables siderophore-secreting-rhizobacteria to improve iron nutrition and yield of peanut intercropped with maize

N Wang, T Wang, Y Chen, M Wang, Q Lu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Intercropping has the potential to improve plant nutrition as well as crop yield. However, the
exact mechanism promoting improved nutrient acquisition and the role the rhizosphere …

P for two, sharing a scarce resource: soil phosphorus acquisition in the rhizosphere of intercropped species

P Hinsinger, E Betencourt, L Bernard… - Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Over the last 50 years, the use of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizers has increased
at a faster rate than global food production, resulting in substantial decreases of N and P …

Diversity enhances agricultural productivity via rhizosphere phosphorus facilitation on phosphorus-deficient soils

L Li, SM Li, JH Sun, LL Zhou, XG Bao… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Intercropping, which grows at least two crop species on the same pieces of land at the same
time, can increase grain yields greatly. Legume–grass intercrops are known to overyield …