Intercropping indices evaluation on grain legume-small grain cereals mixture: a critical meta-analysis review

R Zustovi, S Landschoot, K Dewitte, G Verlinden… - Agronomy for …, 2024 - Springer
Intercropping is a mature and well-known agronomic practice that began to attract interest
from the scientific community in the mid-1900s and has known an exponential growth in …

The ESSU concept for designing, modeling and auditing ecosystem service provision in intercropping and agroforestry systems. A review

S Rafflegeau, M Gosme, K Barkaoui, L Garcia… - Agronomy for …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Duru et al.(Agron Sustain Dev 35: 1259-1281, 2015) highlighted a missing tool for
studying and improving the performance of cropping systems in the transition to highly …

A global synthesis reveals additive density design drives intercropping effects on soil N-cycling variables

Y Li, X Gu, T Yong, W Yang - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Intercropping controls a variety of agroecosystem processes that are crucial for effective crop
production by increasing crop diversity. Prior studies have frequently concentrated on crop …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal complementarity drives species combinability in strip intercropping in the Netherlands

Z Wang, B Dong, TJ Stomph, JB Evers… - Field Crops …, 2023 - Elsevier
Combinability of species in intercrops depends on the production conditions and there is
limited information on the potential of intercropping under conventional (ie, non-organic) …

Supply chain perspectives on breeding for legume–cereal intercrops

LP Kiær, OD Weedon, L Bedoussac, C Bickler… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Compared to sole crops, intercropping—especially of legumes and cereals—has great
potential to improve crop yield and resource use efficiency, and can provide many other …

Oat/soybean strip intercropping benefits crop yield and stability in semi-arid regions: A multi-site and multi-year assessment

W Feng, J Ge, ARS Rodríguez, B Zhao, X Wang… - Field Crops …, 2024 - Elsevier
Context Intercropping plays a crucial role in promoting agricultural sustainability and offers
an alternative way to enhance crop production and ensure food security. However, the yield …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting intercrop competition, facilitation, and productivity from simple functional traits

C MacLaren, W Waswa, KT Aliyu, L Claessens… - Field Crops …, 2023 - Elsevier
Context Recent meta-analyses demonstrate that intercropping can increase the land use
efficiency of crop production by 20–30% on average, indicating a strong potential …

Harnessing the potential of wheat-pea species mixtures: evaluation of multifunctional performance and wheat diversity

J Timaeus, OD Weedon, MR Finckh - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Species mixtures and heterogeneous crop populations are two promising approaches for
diversified ecological cropping systems with increased resilience and reduced dependency …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of multiple spring wheat cultivars in diverse intercropping systems

MR Paul, DT Demie, SJ Seidel, TF Döring - European Journal of Agronomy, 2024 - Elsevier
Re-diversifying agriculture through cereal-legume intercropping could provide higher
productivity, but the cultivars and traits associated with agronomic performance of …

Oil radish, winter rye and crimson clover: root and shoot performance in cover crop mixtures

R Kemper, TF Döring, N Legner, C Meinen, M Athmann - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Purpose The current knowledge of belowground interactions in intercropping systems is
limited due to methodological constraints. The current study aimed to investigate cereal …