Crop biomass and root morphology in maize/soybean strip intercropping system in karst region
Authors
Hao Zhang, Fuping Zeng, Qiujin Tan, Guanghua Xu
Corresponding Author
Hao Zhang
Available Online July 2015.
- DOI
- 10.2991/icaees-15.2015.101How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- 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.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
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 -