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 …

Background The potential benefits of intercropping are manifold and have been repeatedly
demonstrated. Intercropping has the potential to create more productive and resilient …

Intercropping exploits species complementarities to achieve sustainable intensification by
increasing crop outputs per unit land with reduced anthropogenic inputs. Cereal/legume …

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 …

Plant diversity in experimental systems often enhances ecosystem productivity, but the
mechanisms causing this overyielding are only partly understood. Intercropping faba beans …

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 …

Intercropping, the agricultural practice of cultivating two or more crops in the same space at
the same time, is an old and commonly used cropping practice which aims to match …

Intercropping systems can flexibly use resources such as sunlight, heat, water, and nutrients
in time and space, improve crop yield and land utilization rates, effectively reduce …

The grain legume (pulse) faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is grown world-wide as a protein source
for food and feed. At the same time faba bean offers ecosystem services such as renewable …

Management of nitrogen (N) inputs into agricultural systems is of increasing interest due to
the intensive use of synthetic fertilizers in modern cash crop systems, which has caused …