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A Century of Understanding and Harnessing Heterosis

Plant Breeding, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Heterosis has shaped modern plant breeding since Darwin's 19th century observations that outcrossing restores vigour lost through selfing. While 100 years old, its mechanistic basis and deployability remain actively debated. Classical models of dominance, overdominance and epistasis provided the foundation for hybrid breeding and converted ...
Mohsen Mohammadi
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Influence of Varieties and Population of Intercropped Soybean with Maize on Land Equivalent Ratio (LER) and Growth Monetary Value (GMV) of the Component Crops [PDF]

, 2016
The study was conducted to determining the effect of varieties and population densities of soybean intercropped with maize on LER and GMV of components of associated crops.
Gutu, Teshome
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Environmental Sustainability of Soybean Production in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Cases of Production Systems in the South‐Kivu and Kasaï‐Lomami Provinces

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2026.
Small versus large scale soybean production systems' footprints. ABSTRACT Soybean is increasingly grown in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), produced mainly in small‐scale systems and supplied locally for human consumption. Prospects of large‐scale expansion and intensification, with potential environmental drawbacks, loom and call for a ...
Réussite Bugale Malembaka, Stephan Pfister, Braida Thom, Kokou Kintche, Johanna Jacobi   +4 more
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Comparison of native maize and squash in monoculture and intercropping systems

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems
Background: The large amount of native maize available in Mexico can be used in different associations with other crops, such as squash. However, it is necessary to determine whether its productivity is adequate and whether maize germplasm has an ...
Stephan Rönicke, Hilda V. Silva-Rojas, Alberto Santillán-Fernández, José A. Monsalvo-Espinosa, Mauricio A. Carmona-Arellano, Eugenio Carrillo-Ávila, Monica Osnaya-Gonzalez   +6 more
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Biostimulants‐driven improvements in productivity, resource use efficiency and protein yield in pea–barley intercrops

Agrosystems, Geosciences &Environment, Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract Biostimulants promote plant growth, nutrient uptake, and drought tolerance, reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. Intercropping, involving multiple crop species on the same land, is a promising practice. In Denmark, pea (Pisum sativum)–barley (Hordeum vulgare) intercrop (PBIC) is commonly used for grain and fodder production.
Vaibhav Pradip Chaudhary, Saad Mir, Bhim Bahadur Ghaley   +2 more
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Spatiotemporal Land Equivalent Ratio (ST-LER) for Agroforestry Design

Abstract Achieving climate resilience in Mediterranean agriculture hinges on adaptive strategies like agroforestry, yet optimization is constrained by retrospective indices that are effectively spatially blind and temporally static. Consequently, their utility is insufficient for guiding spatial design or quantifying the operational ...
Eyal Ben-Simchon, Guy Yogev, Jonathan Fireman, Dvora Wolicki, Yichalal Zewdie, Giora Ben-Ari, Roi Ben-David, José M. Grünzweig, Nitzan Malachy, Offer Rozenstein, Oren Shelef   +10 more
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Additive Maize‐Mung Bean Intercropping With Rice Husk Mulch Enhances Productivity, Physiological Performance, and Soil Biological Activity Under Deficit Irrigation

Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, Volume 212, Issue 5, September 2026.
Integrating rice husk mulch with additive maize–mung bean intercropping effectively buffers the negative impacts of deficit irrigation. The key outcomes include: (1) the maintenance of land‐use efficiency (LER > 1.18) under water stress, (2) the effectiveness of mulch in preserving leaf water status and reducing the metabolic cost of antioxidant ...
Zahra Sayadi, Yaser Alizadeh, Ehsan Zeidali, Hamzeh Ali Alizadeh, Ekhlas Amini   +4 more
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Comparative analysis of maize–soybean strip intercropping systems: a review

Plant Production Science, 2019
Traditional maize (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max (L) Merrill) intercropping practice cannot be adapted to modern agriculture due to low light use efficiency, radiation use efficiency, low comparative profits of soybeans and incompatibility with ...
Nasir Iqbal, Sajad Hussain, Zeeshan Ahmed, Feng Yang, Xiaochun Wang, Weiguo Liu, Taiwen Yong, Junbo Du, Kai Shu, Wenyu Yang, Jiang Liu   +10 more
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EFFECT OF INTERCROPPING SYSTEMS AND NITROGEN LEVELS ON CERTAIN CHARACTERS OF SNAP BEAN AND PEPPER. III. EFFECT ON COMPETITION PARAMETERS [PDF]

Journal of Plant Production, 2002
The competition parameters measured in order to throw some light advance on the expected yield resulting from the tested treatments. 1. Land equivalent ratio (LER): The land equivalent ratio (LER) of pepper and snap bean showed values more than one in ...
EI-Sa. EI-Said, H. Ghobary, EI-Sa. Fathy, Aida Abd EI-Rahim,   +3 more
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Bandwidth Row Ratio Configuration Affect Interspecific Effects and Land Productivity in Maize–Soybean Intercropping System

Agronomy, 2022
Intercropping plays an indispensable role in sustainable agriculture. The response of bandwidth row ratio configuration to crop interspecific relationships and land productivity in the maize–soybean intercropping system (MSI) is still unclear.
Liang Feng, Wenting Yang, Haiying Tang, Guoqin Huang, Shubin Wang   +4 more
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