Crop biomass and root morphology in maize/soybean strip intercropping system in karst region

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10.2991/icaees-15.2015.101How to use a DOI?

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karst soil, maize/soybean, nutrient use, root morphology, strip intercropping system

Abstract

It is still unclear that whether intercropping system (IS) could improve the crop biomass and yield in karst soil. A field experiment was conducted to analyze the effects of IS on maize/soybean biomass, root morphology and yield. The results showed that the maize aboveground biomass, root biomass, and yield in IS were significantly higher than those of maize sole cropping (MS). Similarly, the maize root length, root volume weight, and root actively in IS were significantly higher than these of MS. These data implied that IS has obvious advantage of crop biomass and yield in karst region, which was mainly due to the differences of root morphology and root activity.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hao Zhang
AU  - Fuping Zeng
AU  - Qiujin Tan
AU  - Guanghua Xu
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - Crop biomass and root morphology in maize/soybean strip intercropping system in karst region
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environmental Science 2015
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 539
EP  - 543
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icaees-15.2015.101
DO  - 10.2991/icaees-15.2015.101
ID  - Zhang2015/07
ER  -