Improving intercropping: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology

Plant species richness promotes soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in grasslands without legumes

(2014) Wen-Feng Cong et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

(2014) I. Tanya Handa et al.   NATURE

Plant diversity and overyielding: insights from belowground facilitation of intercropping in agriculture

(2014) Long Li et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The context dependence of beneficiary feedback effects on benefactors in plant facilitation

(2014) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Field Phenotyping and Long-Term Platforms to Characterise How Crop Genotypes Interact with Soil Processes and the Environment

(2014) Timothy George et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Functional agrobiodiversity and agroecosystem services in sustainable wheat production. A review

(2013) Ambrogio Costanzo et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Matching roots to their environment

(2013) Philip J. White et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Diseases in Intercropping Systems

(2013) Mark A. Boudreau   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Underground signals carried through common mycelial networks warn neighbouring plants of aphid attack

(2013) Zdenka Babikova et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

(2013) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mechanisms linking plant community properties to soil aggregate stability in an experimental grassland plant diversity gradient

(2013) G. Pérès et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant: soil interactions in temperate multi-cropping production systems

(2013) Jürgen Ehrmann et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil microbial community under a nurse-plant species changes in composition, biomass and activity as the nurse grows

(2013) S. Hortal et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Root traits for infertile soils

(2013) Philip J. White et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

How can we exploit above–belowground interactions to assist in addressing the challenges of food security?

(2013) Peter Orrell et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Complementarity in root architecture for nutrient uptake in ancient maize/bean and maize/bean/squash polycultures

(2012) Johannes A. Postma et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Intercropping With Aromatic Plants Decreases Herbivore Abundance, Species Richness, and Shifts Arthropod Community Trophic Structure

(2012) Song Beizhou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

On-farm evaluation of yield and economic benefit of short term maize legume intercropping systems under conservation agriculture in Malawi

(2012) Amos R. Ngwira et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Maize–grain legume intercropping is an attractive option for ecological intensification that reduces climatic risk for smallholder farmers in central Mozambique

(2012) Leonard Rusinamhodzi et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Yield advantage and water saving in maize/pea intercrop

(2012) Lili Mao et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Review Genetic and molecular mechanisms of aluminum tolerance in plants

(2012) C.C. Simões et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH

Maximizing root/rhizosphere efficiency to improve crop productivity and nutrient use efficiency in intensive agriculture of China

(2012) Jianbo Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Water release through plant roots: new insights into its consequences at the plant and ecosystem level

(2012) Iván Prieto et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dynamic trajectories of growth and nitrogen capture by competing plants

(2012) Clare Trinder et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mycorrhizal Networks: Common Goods of Plants Shared under Unequal Terms of Trade

(2012) F. Walder et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Reconciling productivity with protection of the environment: Is temperate agroforestry the answer?

(2012) Jo Smith et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Fungal superhighways: do common mycorrhizal networks enhance below ground communication?

(2012) E. Kathryn Barto et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Species Interactions Alter Evolutionary Responses to a Novel Environment

(2012) Diane Lawrence et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

How to Overcome the Slow Death of Intercropping in the North China Plain

(2012) Til Feike et al.   Sustainability

Nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching in an arable rotation resulting from the presence of an intercrop

(2011) Valentini A. Pappa et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Short-term response of physical and chemical aspects of soil quality of a kaolinitic Kandiudalfs to agricultural practices and its association with microbiological variables

(2011) Marcelo F. Fernandes et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Agroecologically efficient agricultural systems for smallholder farmers: contributions to food sovereignty

(2011) Miguel A. Altieri et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

The influence of host and non-host companion plants on the behaviour of pest insects in field crops

(2011) S. Finch et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Soil management in relation to sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services

(2011) D.S. Powlson et al.   FOOD POLICY

Legumes intercropped with spring barley contribute to increased biomass production and carry-over effects

(2011) V. A. PAPPA et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

Phosphorus Dynamics: From Soil to Plant

(2011) J. Shen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Microbial community abundance and structure are determinants of soil organic matter mineralisation in the presence of labile carbon

(2011) Jordi Garcia-Pausas et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Biodiversity and ecosystem services: a multilayered relationship

(2011) Georgina M. Mace et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review

(2010) Deborah K. Letourneau et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Additional carbon sequestration benefits of grassland diversity restoration

(2010) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The identification of aluminium-resistance genes provides opportunities for enhancing crop production on acid soils

(2010) P. R. Ryan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Can hydraulic redistribution put bread on our table?

(2010) Stephen S. O. Burgess   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil and crop management strategies to prevent iron deficiency in crops

(2010) Yuanmei Zuo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Physical properties of a sandy loam Ultisol as affected by tillage-mulch management practices and cropping systems

(2010) S.E. Obalum et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Influence of glyphosate-resistant cropping systems on weed species shifts and glyphosate-resistant weed populations

(2009) William G. Johnson et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Pea–barley intercropping for efficient symbiotic N2-fixation, soil N acquisition and use of other nutrients in European organic cropping systems

(2009) H. Hauggaard-Nielsen et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

The effect of long-term soil management on the physical and biological resilience of a range of arable and grassland soils in England

(2009) Andrew S. Gregory et al.   GEODERMA

Socialism in soil? The importance of mycorrhizal fungal networks for facilitation in natural ecosystems

(2009) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Penetration of cover crop roots through compacted soils

(2009) Guihua Chen et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Switchgrass and milkvetch intercropping under 2:1 row-replacement in semiarid region, northwest China: Aboveground biomass and water use efficiency

(2008) B.C. Xu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Facilitated legume nodulation, phosphate uptake and nitrogen transfer by arbuscular inoculation in an upland rice and mung bean intercropping system

(2008) Yuefeng Li et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

(2007) D. Goulson et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Interspecific root interactions and rhizosphere effects on salt ions and nutrient uptake between mixed grown peanut/maize and peanut/barley in original saline–sodic–boron toxic soil

(2007) Ali Inal et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY