Water stress memory in wheat/maize intercropping regulated photosynthetic and antioxidative responses under rainfed conditions.

ABSTRACT: Drought is a most prevalent environmental stress affecting the productivity of rainfed wheat and maize in the semiarid Loess Plateau of China. Sustainable agricultural practices such as intercropping are important for enhancing crop performance in terms of better physiological and biochemical characteristics under drought conditions. Enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant enzyme activities are associated with improved abiotic tolerance in crop plants, however, its molecular mechanism remains obscure. A 2-year field study was conducted to evaluate the influence of intercropping treatment viz. wheat mono-crop (WMC), maize mono-crop (MMC), intercropping maize (IM) and wheat (IW) crops, and nitrogen (N) application rates viz. control and full-dose of N (basal application at 150 and 235 kg ha<

SUBMITTER: Hussain S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10444778 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature