Clover in agriculture: combined benefits for bees, environment, and farmer

C Harris, FLW Ratnieks - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2022‏ - Springer
Concerns over the increasing cost and environmental impact of high inorganic nitrogen (N)
inputs have led to a reappraisal of the role of legumes, particularly clover, in maintaining soil …

[HTML][HTML] Grain legume-cereal intercrop** enhances the use of soil-derived and biologically fixed nitrogen in temperate agroecosystems. A meta-analysis

C Rodriguez, G Carlsson, JE Englund, A Flöhr… - European Journal of …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Grain legumes are known for their benefits to deliver ecosystem services on provisioning of
protein-rich food and feed, reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the symbiotic …

Enhancing legume ecosystem services through an understanding of plant–pollinator interplay

MJ Suso, PJ Bebeli, S Christmann, C Mateus… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
Legumes are bee-pollinated, but to a different extent. The importance of the plant–pollinator
interplay (PPI), in flowering crops such as legumes lies in a combination of the importance of …

Cover crop biomass production is more important than diversity for weed suppression

C MacLaren, P Swanepoel, J Bennett, J Wright… - Crop …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biotic resistance theory suggests that diverse cover crop mixes may be more effective at
weed suppression than a cover crop monoculture. However, evidence for this has so far …

[ספר][B] Grain legumes

AM De Ron - 2015‏ - books.google.com
​​​ This book is devoted to grain legumes and include eight chapters devoted to the
breeding of specific grain legume crops and five general chapters dealing with important …

[HTML][HTML] Pollinator spillover: Hay cutting of grass with white clover, Trifolium repens, displaces bees and increases their abundance in adjacent patches of bramble …

C Harris, R Christopher, S Humphrey-Ackumey… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
White clover, Trifolium repens, is a legume used widely in agriculture due to its ability to fix
atmospheric nitrogen and improve soil fertility. Due to increasing cost of artificial fertiliser …

Native cover crops enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services in hazelnut orchards

A Brambila, S Haring, A Brown… - Journal of Applied …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Agroecological restoration aims to restore biodiversity and ecosystem function in agricultural
landscapes while sustaining crop production. Adopting native plants as cover crops may …

Grain legume crop** systems in temperate climates

TF Döring - Grain legumes, 2015‏ - Springer
Grain legumes fulfil important roles in crop** systems as sources of nitrogen for the
following crop, in terms of phytosanitary effects in the crop rotation and for supporting farm …

Effect of cover crops mixtures on weed suppression capacity in a dry sub-humid environment of Argentina

M Malaspina, GR Chantre, M Yanniccari - Frontiers in Agronomy, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Cover crops (CC) are increasingly used worldwide within integrated weed management
scenarios. They are usually established between two commercial crops and are not …

Pisum Improvement Against Biotic Stress: Current Status and Future Prospects

R Mahajan, AA Dar, S Mukthar, SM Zargar… - … , Molecular and Genetic …, 2018‏ - Springer
Unfavorable environment conditions like abiotic stresses (drought, salinity, waterlogging,
extreme temperature, etc.) and biotic factors (fungi, virus, bacteria, pest, and insects) have …