Crop acquisition of phosphorus, iron and zinc from soil in cereal/legume intercropping systems: a critical review
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This review synthesizes the literature on how intercropping of legumes with cereals increases acquisition of P, Fe and Zn from soil and recapitulates what is known about root-to-shoot nutrient translocation, plant-internal nutrient remobilization and allocation to grains.About:
This article is published in Annals of Botany.The article was published on 2016-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 142 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Intercropping.read more
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Multiple benefits of legumes for agriculture sustainability: an overview
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that legumes have high potential for conservation agriculture, being functional either as growing crop or as crop residue, and they also perform well in conservation systems, inter-cropping systems, which are very important in developing countries as well as in low-input and low-yield farming systems.
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The new Green Revolution: Sustainable intensification of agriculture by intercropping
TL;DR: It is argued that intercropping, which is the simultaneous production of multiple crops on the same area of land, could play an essential role in this intensification of agriculture, and the first global meta-analysis on the multifaceted benefits of intercrops was carried out, indicating that inter cropping remains beneficial, both under stressful and non-stressful contexts concerning moisture availability.
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Grain Legume Production and Use in European Agricultural Systems
Christine A. Watson,Christine A. Watson,Moritz Reckling,Sara Preissel,Johann Bachinger,Göran Bergkvist,Tom Kuhlman,Kristina Lindström,Thomas Nemecek,Cairistiona F.E. Topp,Aila Vanhatalo,Peter Zander,Donal Murphy-Bokern,Frederick L. Stoddard +13 more
TL;DR: The contribution of ecosystem services by grain legumes in European agriculture starting with provisioning services in terms of food and feed and moving on to the contribution they make to both regulating and supporting services which are in part due to the diversity which these crops bring to cropping systems as discussed by the authors.
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Preserving the nutritional quality of crop plants under a changing climate: importance and strategies
José Soares,Carla Santos,Susana M.P. Carvalho,Susana M.P. Carvalho,Manuela Pintado,Marta W. Vasconcelos +5 more
TL;DR: The development of future interventions to ensure that the world's population has access to plentiful, safe and nutritious food may need to rely on breeding for nutrients under the context of climate change, including legumes in cropping systems, better farm management practices and utilization of microbial inoculants that enhance nutrient availability.
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Intercropping—A Low Input Agricultural Strategy for Food and Environmental Security
Sagar Maitra,Akbar Hossain,Marian Brestic,Milan Skalicky,Peter Ondrišík,Harun I. Gitari,Koushik Brahmachari,Tanmoy Shankar,Preetha Bhadra,Jnana Bharati Palai,Jagadish Jena,Urjashi Bhattacharya,Sarath Kumar Duvvada,Sagar Lalichetti,Masina Sairam +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review highlights the principles and management of an intercropping system and its benefits and usefulness as a low-input agriculture for food and environmental security. But growing two or more crops together requires additional care and management for the creation of less competition among the crop species and efficient utilization of natural resources.
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Marschner's Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants
Horst. Marschner,Petra Marschner +1 more
TL;DR: The third edition of Marschner's "Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants" as mentioned in this paper is the most comprehensive and comprehensive reference on plant mineral nutrition, which has been published since 1996.
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Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a well-replicated field experiment, in which species diversity was directly controlled, to show that ecosystem productivity in 147 grassland plots increased significantly with plant biodiversity.
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Phosphorus acquisition and use: critical adaptations by plants for securing a nonrenewable resource
TL;DR: Physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies of white lupin and other species response to P-deficiency have identified targets that may be useful for plant improvement, and Genomic approaches involving identification of expressed sequence tags found under low-P stress may also yield target sites for plant improved.
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Bioavailability of soil inorganic P in the rhizosphere as affected by root-induced chemical changes: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give an overview of those chemical processes that are directly induced by plant roots and which can affect the concentration of P in the soil solution and, ultimately, the bioavailability of soil inorganic P to plants.
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Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment
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