Intercrop** is a powerful way to promote a more diversified plant community in the field,
thereby enabling complementary and facilitative relationships. In these systems, legumes …

Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is a multipurpose food crop which is ranked among the top five
cereal crops in the world, and is used as a source of food, fodder, feed, and fuel. The genus …

Grain crops are an important part of the human diet, accounting for a third of the consumed
calories. Throughout human history, annual grain crops with high yields have been obtained …

Stephen Gliessman's complementary volumes, Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable
Food Systems, Third Edition and Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology, Third …

Senescence is an age-dependent process, ultimately leading to plant death, that in annual
crop plants overlaps with the reproductive stage of development. Research on the molecular …

Background The soil represents a reservoir that contains at least twice as much carbon as
does the atmosphere, yet (apart from 'root crops') mainly just the above-ground plant …

During the 20th century, farmers around the world replaced legume rotations and other
traditional sources of nitrogen (N) fertility with synthetic N fertilizers. A sizable percentage of …

Over the past century, agricultural landscapes worldwide have increasingly been managed
for the primary purpose of producing food, while other diverse ecosystem services …

Perennial grain crop** systems could address a number of contemporary agroecological
problems, including soil degradation, NO3 leaching, and soil C loss. Since it is likely that …

Perennial grains have potential to contribute to ecological intensification of food production
by enabling the direct harvest of human-edible crops without requiring annual cycles of …