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Intercropping reduced nutrient absorption by maize.
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e0“Nutrient absorption by both maize and mungbean was reduced due to intercropping”
Title
M. K. Chowdhury; E. L. Rosario The Journal of Agricultural Science 1994. doi:10.1017/s0021859600087360
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- Intervention effect Rhizobial inoculation increased maize grain yield.
- Intervention effect Rhizobial inoculation increased mungbean grain yield.
- Intervention effect Raising N from 0 to 90 kg/ha increased sole-crop maize yield by 60%.
- Intervention effect Raising N from 0 to 90 kg/ha increased intercrop maize yield by 71%.
- Intervention effect The higher N rate decreased associated mungbean yield by 29–35%.
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced mungbean yield by 35–57%.
- Intervention effect Maize yield was less affected by intercropping than mungbean yield.
- Intervention effect Inoculation improved the land equivalent ratio.
- Observation The highest LER was 1·49 at 30 kg N/ha with inoculation.
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced nutrient absorption by mungbean.
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced maize N absorption efficiency by 4 to 37%.
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced mungbean N absorption efficiency by 37 to 58%.
- Intervention effect Higher N rates increased maize N absorption.
- Intervention effect Higher N rates caused greater reductions in mungbean N absorption.
- Intervention effect Higher applied N reduced the intercropping penalty for maize P absorption.
- Intervention effect Inoculation reduced the intercropping penalty for maize P absorption.
- Intervention effect Inoculation had a lesser effect on K absorption efficiency.
- Mechanism Higher total nutrient uptake in intercrops largely explained LER above unity.
- Mechanism More efficient conversion of absorbed nutrients into grain also contributed to intercrop yield advantage.