Plant Breeding for Intercropping in Temperate Field Crop Systems: A Review

Advances in Breeding for Mixed Cropping – Incomplete Factorials and the Producer/Associate Concept

(2021) Benedikt Haug et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Modeling Illustrates That Genomic Selection Provides New Opportunities for Intercrop Breeding

(2021) Jon Bančič et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Reproductive resilience but not root architecture underpins yield improvement under drought in maize

(2021) Carlos Messina et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Enlisting wild grass genes to combat nitrification in wheat farming: A nature-based solution

(2021) Guntur V. Subbarao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multi-Species Genomics-Enabled Selection for Improving Agroecosystems Across Space and Time

(2021) Marnin D. Wolfe et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Breeding Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) in Mixture with Grasses

(2021) Christoph Grieder et al.   Sustainability

Alfalfa Established Successfully in Intercropping with Corn in the Midwest US

(2021) Marisol T. Berti et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Breeding Beyond Monoculture: Putting the “Intercrop” Into Crops

(2021) Peter M. Bourke et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Long-term increased grain yield and soil fertility from intercropping

(2021) Xiao-Fei Li et al.   Nature Sustainability

Modeling perennial groundcover effects on annual maize grain crop growth with APSIM

(2020) C. A. Bartel et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Preferential gene retention increases the robustness of cold regulation in Brassicaceae and other plants after polyploidization

(2020) Xiao-Ming Song et al.   Horticulture Research

Yield tradeoffs and weed suppression in a winter annual oilseed relay‐cropping system

(2020) Cody Hoerning et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Symposium review: How to implement genomic selection

(2020) P.M. VanRaden   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Surface Runoff and Nutrient Dynamics in Cover Crop‐Soybean Systems in the Upper Midwest

(2020) Sharon L. Weyers et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Uptake and utilization of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as related to yield advantage in maize-soybean intercropping under different row configurations

(2020) Yuanfang Fan et al.   Scientific Reports

Species choice and spatial arrangement in soybean-based intercropping: Levers that drive yield and weed control

(2020) Timothée Cheriere et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Plant science decadal vision 2020–2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future

(2020) Natalie Henkhaus et al.   Plant Direct

Legume-oilseed intercropping in mechanised broadacre agriculture – a review

(2020) Alyce Dowling et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Weather and landscape influences on pollinator visitation of flowering winter oilseeds (field pennycress and winter camelina)

(2020) Frank Forcella et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Harvesting forage of the perennial grain crop kernza (Thinopyrum intermedium) increases root biomass and soil nitrogen cycling

(2019) Jennie Y. Pugliese et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Current knowledge and future research opportunities for modeling annual crop mixtures. A review

(2019) Noémie Gaudio et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Kura Clover Living Mulch: Spring Management Effects on Nitrogen

(2019) Jonathan Alexander et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Genome-Wide Association Study of Yield Component Traits in Intermediate Wheatgrass and Implications in Genomic Selection and Breeding

(2019) Prabin Bajgain et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Genetic Diversity of Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) Reveals Untapped Variability and Paths Toward Selection for Domestication

(2019) Katherine Frels et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Management of pennycress as a winter annual cash cover crop. A review

(2019) Julija A. Cubins et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) for Forage Traits in Intermediate Wheatgrass When Grown as Spaced-Plants versus Monoculture and Polyculture Swards

(2019) John S. Mortenson et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Regenerating Agricultural Landscapes with Perennial Groundcover for Intensive Crop Production

(2019) Kenneth J. Moore et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Overwintering assessment of camelina (Camelina sativa) cultivars and congeneric species in the northeastern US

(2019) Chuan-Jie Zhang et al.   INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS

Tillage intensity influences nitrogen cycling in organic kura clover living mulch

(2019) Peyton Ginakes et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Perennial cover crop influences on soil C and N and maize productivity

(2019) Chumki Banik et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Which Recurrent Selection Scheme To Improve Mixtures of Crop Species? Theoretical Expectations

(2019) Jean-Paul Sampoux et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Potassium Fertilization Affects Alfalfa Forage Yield, Nutritive Value, Root Traits, and Persistence

(2019) Jacob M. Jungers et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Forage nutritive value and predicted fiber digestibility of Kernza intermediate wheatgrass in monoculture and in mixture with red clover during the first production year

(2019) Jeremie R. Favre et al.   ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Managing for Multifunctionality in Perennial Grain Crops

(2018) Matthew R Ryan et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The new Green Revolution: Sustainable intensification of agriculture by intercropping

(2018) Marc-Olivier Martin-Guay et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Temporal Differentiation of Crop Growth as One of the Drivers of Intercropping Yield Advantage

(2018) Nan Dong et al.   Scientific Reports

Development and Evolution of an Intermediate Wheatgrass Domestication Program

(2018) Lee DeHaan et al.   Sustainability

Maintaining grain yields of the perennial cereal intermediate wheatgrass in monoculture v. bi-culture with alfalfa in the Upper Midwestern USA

(2018) Nicole E. Tautges et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

Harnessing genomic information for livestock improvement

(2018) Michel Georges et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The adaptable use of Brassica NIRS calibration equations to identify pennycress variants to facilitate the rapid domestication of a new winter oilseed crop

(2018) Ratan Chopra et al.   INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS

Tall fescue forage mass in a grass-legume mixture: predicted efficiency of indirect selection

(2017) Blair L. Waldron et al.   EUPHYTICA

White clover living mulch reduces the need for phosphorus fertilizer application to corn

(2017) Shin Deguchi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Modeling sensitivity of grain yield to elevated temperature in the DSSAT crop models for peanut, soybean, dry bean, chickpea, sorghum, and millet

(2017) K.J. Boote et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Does intercropping enhance yield stability in arable crop production? A meta-analysis

(2017) Md. Raseduzzaman et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Can legume companion plants control weeds without decreasing crop yield? A meta-analysis

(2017) Valentin Verret et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Weed suppression greatly increased by plant diversity in intensively managed grasslands: A continental-scale experiment

(2017) John Connolly et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Major shifts in species’ relative abundance in grassland mixtures alongside positive effects of species diversity in yield: a continental-scale experiment

(2017) Caroline Brophy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Genomic prediction unifies animal and plant breeding programs to form platforms for biological discovery

(2017) John M Hickey et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Performance of lucerne genotypes for biomass production and nitrogen content differs in monoculture and in mixture with grasses and is partly predicted from traits recorded on isolated plants

(2017) Amel Maamouri et al.   Crop & Pasture Science

Going where no grains have gone before: From early to mid-succession

(2016) Timothy E. Crews et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Evaluation of Alfalfa–Tall Fescue Mixtures across Multiple Environments

(2016) Benjamin F. Tracy et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Functional Diversity in Summer Annual Grass and Legume Intercrops in the Northeastern United States

(2016) K. Ann Bybee-Finley et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Bandwagons I, too, have known

(2016) Rex Bernardo   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Genomic Prediction of Genotype × Environment Interaction Kernel Regression Models

(2016) Jaime Cuevas et al.   Plant Genome

Water Use in Camelina–Soybean Dual Cropping Systems

(2015) Russ W. Gesch et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Using pennycress, camelina, and canola cash cover crops to provision pollinators

(2015) Carrie A. Eberle et al.   INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS

Cover crop adoption in Iowa: The role of perceived practice characteristics

(2015) J. G. Arbuckle et al.   JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

The contribution of phenotypic plasticity to complementary light capture in plant mixtures

(2015) Junqi Zhu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of grasses and a legume grown in monoculture or mixture on soil organic matter and phosphorus forms

(2015) Alexandra Crème et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Diversity in Plant Breeding: A New Conceptual Framework

(2015) Isabelle Litrico et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Effects of lucerne genotype on morphology, biomass production and nitrogen content of lucerne and tall fescue in mixed pastures

(2015) Amel Maamouri et al.   Crop & Pasture Science

Multiple cropping systems as drivers for providing multiple ecosystem services: from concepts to design

(2014) Sabrina Gaba et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Dual Cropping Winter Camelina with Soybean in the Northern Corn Belt

(2014) R. W. Gesch et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Vigor and Persistence of Birdsfoot Trefoil Populations Selected with or without an Orchardgrass Companion Evaluated in Grass Sod

(2014) Heathcliffe Riday et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Intercropping enhances soil carbon and nitrogen

(2014) Wen-Feng Cong et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cultivar × binary mixture interaction effect on agronomic traits in orchardgrass

(2014) Wengang Xie et al.   GRASSLAND SCIENCE

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

(2014) Long Li et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2014) Rob W. Brooker et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Corn Performance under Managed Drought Stress and in a Kura Clover Living Mulch Intercropping System

(2013) Cathrine Ziyomo et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Grass–Legume Proportions in Forage Seed Mixtures and Effects on Herbage Yield and Weed Abundance

(2013) Matt A. Sanderson et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Diseases in Intercropping Systems

(2013) Mark A. Boudreau   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Benefits of mixing timothy with alfalfa for forage yield, nutritive value, and weed suppression in northern environments

(2013) Gilles Bélanger et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE

Evaluation of Grass and Legume Species as Perennial Ground Covers in Corn Production

(2013) E. Scott Flynn et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Temperatures and the growth and development of maize and rice: a review

(2013) Berta Sánchez et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Benefits of mixing grasses and legumes for herbage yield and nutritive value in Northern Europe and Canada

(2013) E. Sturludóttir et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3-year continental-scale field experiment

(2013) John A. Finn et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Breeding Cereal Crops for Enhanced Weed Suppression: Optimizing Allelopathy and Competitive Ability

(2013) Margaret Worthington et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Off-season groundcover and runoff characteristics of perennial clover and annual grass companion crops for no-till corn fertilized with manure

(2013) J. H. Grabber et al.   JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

N2 fixation, N transfer, and yield in grassland communities including a deep-rooted legume or non-legume species

(2013) B. E. Frankow-Lindberg et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effects of intercropping sugarcane and soybean on growth, rhizosphere soil microbes, nitrogen and phosphorus availability

(2012) Xiuping Li et al.   ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM

Response of Continuous Maize with Stover Removal to Living Mulches

(2012) Dustin R. Wiggans et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Grass–Legume Mixtures Suppress Weeds during Establishment Better than Monocultures

(2012) Matt A. Sanderson et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Sward complexity and grass species composition affect the performance of grass-white clover pasture mixtures

(2012) Y. A. Papadopoulos et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE

Complexity and composition of pasture swards affect plant productivity and soil organisms

(2012) M. S. McElroy et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE

Genomic Prediction of Breeding Values when Modeling Genotype × Environment Interaction using Pedigree and Dense Molecular Markers

(2012) Juan Burgueño et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Maize Water Use in Living Mulch Systems with Stover Removal

(2011) Dustin R. Wiggans et al.   CROP SCIENCE

N2-fixation and residual N effect of four legume species and four companion grass species

(2011) Jim Rasmussen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Diverse perennial crop mixtures sustain higher productivity over time based on ecological complementarity

(2011) Valentín D. Picasso et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Grass–legume mixtures can yield more nitrogen than legume pure stands due to mutual stimulation of nitrogen uptake from symbiotic and non-symbiotic sources

(2010) Daniel Nyfeler et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effect of grazing mixtures of alfalfa and orchardgrass grown in strips on the incidence of bloat in cattle

(2010) D M Veira et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Diseases ofCamelina sativa(false flax)

(2010) G. Séguin-Swartz et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY

Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review

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

White clover selected for enhanced competitive ability widens the compatibility with grasses and favours the optimization of legume content and forage yield in mown clover-grass mixtures

(2010) P. Annicchiarico et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Biodiversity effects on yield and unsown species invasion in a temperate forage ecosystem

(2009) B. E. Frankow-Lindberg et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Long-term variability in Northern Hemisphere snow cover and associations with warmer winters

(2009) Gregory J. McCabe et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six-year grassland experiment

(2009) Elisabeth Marquard et al.   ECOLOGY

Biomass and seed yields of big bluestem, switchgrass, and intermediate wheatgrass in response to manure and harvest timing at two topographic positions

(2009) DOKYOUNG LEE et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Strong mixture effects among four species in fertilized agricultural grassland led to persistent and consistent transgressive overyielding

(2009) Daniel Nyfeler et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Evidence for biological nitrification inhibition in Brachiaria pastures

(2009) G. V. Subbarao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mixing plant species in cropping systems: concepts, tools and models. A review

(2008) E. Malézieux et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development