Maize/peanut intercropping improves nutrient uptake of side-row maize and system microbial community diversity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intercropping, a diversified planting pattern, increases land use efficiency and farmland ecological diversity. We explored the changes in soil physicochemical properties, nutrient uptake and utilization, and microbial community composition in wide-strip intercropping of maize and peanut.

Results

The results from three treatments, sole maize, sole peanut and intercropping of maize and peanut, showed that intercropped maize had a marginal advantage and that the nutrient content of roots, stems and grains in side-row maize was better than that in the middle row of intercropped maize and sole maize. The yield of intercropped maize was higher than that of sole cropping. The interaction between crops significantly increased soil peroxidase activity, and significantly d

SUBMITTER: Zhao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8740425 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature