A field experiment was conducted in Hetian to characterize the rhizosphere of wheat and jujube trees intercropping systems. In the maturity of winter wheat and flowering stage of jujube trees, the root samples of sole wheat, sole five-year-old jujube tree and five-year-old jujube tree intercropped with wheat were collected by...

Pea-maize intercropping has been a vital crop production mode in irrigated areas of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province. However, there some problems of heavy fertilization while symbiotic N2 fixation have been neglected in local crop production in the region. Thus, field trials were conducted in Wuwei City, Gansu Province, in...

The dosage effects of phosphorous applications on yield of maize and chickpea under mono-cropping and intercropping systems were investigated using Jiang-Gu inorganic phosphorus fractionation method in irrigated sierozems in the Gansu Yellow River Irrigation District. The results showed that the contents of inorganic phosphorus were in the following order: OP >...

Nutrient uptake and utilization play an important role in yield advantage of intercropping. However, the effects of nutrient and utilization on yield advantage of new intercropping systems are rarely explored in Northwest China. A field experiment was carried out to investigate those effects under maize & potato, maize & rapeseed,...

Being the kernel of the traditional agriculture of China, and one of the major practices in developing ecological agriculture, intercropping still occupies an important position in modern agriculture in China as well as other parts of the world. One of the advantages of intercropping are higher yields relative to monocultures,...

Intercropping is one of the traditional farming systems practiced by farmers in China for more than 2,000 years with some intriguing ecological principles. Previous studies have shown that intercropping enhances not only crop productivity but also the efficient utilization of resources, both above-ground and below-ground. Recent research efforts have made...