In a context of increasing environmental challenges, there is an emerging demand for plant
cultivars that are adapted to cultivation in species mixture. It is thus pressing to look for the …

The study of natural ecosystems and experiments using mixtures of plant species
demonstrates that both species and genetic diversity generally promote ecosystem …

Variety mixtures can provide a range of benefits for both the crop and the environment. Their
utility for the suppression of pathogens, especially in small grain crops, is well established …

A simple recurrent selection scheme using randomly constructed intercrop or mixture
treatments for the mutual improvement of two or more species is described. Several possible …

There has been recently a renewed interest for variety mixtures due to their potential
capacity to stabilize production through buffering abiotic and biotic stresses. Part of this …

Background and Aims Plant genotypic mixtures have the potential to increase yield stability
in variable, often unpredictable environments, yet knowledge of the specific mechanisms …

Crop variety mixtures can provide many benefits, including pathogen suppression and
increased yield and yield stability. However, these benefits do not necessarily occur in all …

The effect of intra-populational genetic diversity on the stability of performance of
equiproportional mixtures, as measured by their variance in yield over a range of …

Recombination is a requirement for response to selection, but researchers still debate
whether increasing recombination beyond normal levels will result in significant gains in …

Mixture is a system of two or more species that interact with each other in different ways.
Interspecific competition, resource complementarity and facilitation may shape performance …