The role of cover crops in improving soil fertility and plant nutritional status in temperate climates. A review

A Scavo, S Fontanazza, A Restuccia, GR Pesce… - Agronomy for …, 2022 - Springer
Cover crops (CCs) are a promising and sustainable agronomic practice to ameliorate soil
health and crop performances. However, the complex of relationships between CCs, the …

Cover crops for sustainable crop** systems: a review

V Quintarelli, E Radicetti, E Allevato, SR Stazi… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cover crop** is a promising and sustainable agronomic practice to ameliorate soil health
and crop performances in agro-ecosystems. Indeed, cover crops (CCs) may regulate several …

Cover crop functional types differentially alter the content and composition of soil organic carbon in particulate and mineral‐associated fractions

Z Zhang, JP Kaye, BA Bradley, JP Amsili… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cover crops (CCs) can increase soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration by providing
additional OC residues, recruiting beneficial soil microbiota, and improving soil aggregation …

Land use and management effects on sustainable sugarcane-derived bioenergy

MR Cherubin, JLN Carvalho, CEP Cerri, LAH Nogueira… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bioenergy is an important and feasible option for mitigating global warming and climate
change. However, large-scale land-use change (LUC) to expand bioenergy crops, such as …

Assessing the impacts of cover crops on maize and soybean yield in the US Midwestern agroecosystems

Z Qin, K Guan, W Zhou, B Peng, MB Villamil, Z **… - Field Crops …, 2021 - Elsevier
Growing cover crops is one of the most promising conservation practices with multiple
benefits. However, the impacts of cover crops on the productivity of the maize-soybean [Zea …

Do diverse cover crop mixtures perform better than monocultures? A systematic review

AM Florence, AM McGuire - Agronomy Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐species cover crop mixtures have been increasing in popularity. It has been
hypothesized these mixtures produce more biomass, suppress more weeds, scavenge more …

Cover crop effects on maize drought stress and yield

MC Hunter, AR Kemanian, DA Mortensen - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cover crops have been proposed as a tool for adapting crop** systems to drought stress
caused by climate change. However, little research has directly evaluated whether cover …

Prospects for summer cover crops in southern Australian semi-arid crop** systems

TJ Rose, S Parvin, E Han, J Condon, BM Flohr… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Cover crops are widely promoted in temperate regions of the northern
hemisphere to replace or reduce fallow periods between cash crops. The reported benefits …

Effective climate change mitigation through cover crop** and integrated fertilization: A global warming potential assessment from a 10-year field experiment

G Guardia, E Aguilera, A Vallejo… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, field-specific data was collected from a 10-year experiment in central Spain in
which vetch (Vicia sp. L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) were established as cover crops …

Effects of intercrop** and soil properties on root functional traits of cover crops

S Bukovsky-Reyes, ME Isaac, J Blesh - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cover crop trait diversity may enhance multiple ecosystem functions and environmental
sustainability in agroecosystems, providing a mechanistic link between crop diversity and …