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 …

Fate of nitrogen in agriculture and environment: agronomic, eco-physiological and molecular approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency

M Anas, F Liao, KK Verma, MA Sarwar, A Mahmood… - Biological research, 2020 - Springer
Nitrogen is the main limiting nutrient after carbon, hydrogen and oxygen for photosynthetic
process, phyto-hormonal, proteomic changes and growth-development of plants to complete …

Intercrop** with legume for agroecological crop** systems: Complementarity and facilitation processes and the importance of soil microorganisms. A review

O Duchene, JF Vian, F Celette - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Cover crops and ecosystem services: Insights from studies in temperate soils

H Blanco‐Canqui, TM Shaver, JL Lindquist… - Agronomy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cover crops (CCs) can provide multiple soil, agricultural production, and environmental
benefits. However, a better understanding of such potential ecosystem services is needed …

Improving intercrop**: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology

RW Brooker, AE Bennett, WF Cong, TJ Daniell… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Intercrop** is a farming practice involving two or more crop species, or genotypes,
growing together and coexisting for a time. On the fringes of modern intensive agriculture …

Intercrop** legumes and cereals increases phosphorus use efficiency; a meta-analysis

X Tang, C Zhang, Y Yu, J Shen, W van der Werf… - Plant and Soil, 2021 - Springer
Aims Intercrop** cereals with legumes may achieve high crop yields at reduced input
levels. Several studies have indicated that intercrop** increases phosphorus use …

Understanding intercrop** to improve agricultural resiliency and environmental sustainability

S Glaze-Corcoran, M Hashemi, A Sadeghpour… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intercrop** existed early in the evolution of agriculture. However, for several decades, use
of this sustainable crop** system approach remained limited to small operations in …

Diversified crop** systems with complementary root growth strategies improve crop adaptation to and remediation of hostile soils

WP Zhang, S Surigaoge, H Yang, RP Yu, JP Wu… - Plant and Soil, 2024 - Springer
Background and aims Hostile soil conditions have a global impact on crop production. While
root traits of individual plant species adapted to specific hostile soils are well studied, a …