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Effects of plant population and nitrogen fertilizer on yield and efficiency of maize-bean intercropping

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dc.creator Morgado Luiz Balbino
dc.creator Willey Robert William
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-06-01T09:47:12Z
dc.date.available 2013-06-01T09:47:12Z
dc.date.issued 2013-06-01
dc.identifier http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2003001100002
dc.identifier http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=0100204X&date=2003&volume=38&issue=11&spage=1257
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/7941
dc.description Nitrogen supply and plant population are basic parameters for cereal-legume intercropping. In order to study plant population and nitrogen fertilizer effects on yield and yield efficiency of maize-bean intercropping, a field experiment was established. Three bean plant populations and three nitrogen levels were used. Maize dry matter accumulation decreased with increases in bean plant population. Competitive effect of intercrop beans on maize yields was high at higher plant populations, being decreased by nitrogen fertilizer; application of 50 kg ha-1 N was very efficient in increasing maize cob yield. Intercropping significantly decreased harvest index of beans in all plant population and nitrogen fertilizer situations. The efficiency of intercropping, compared to sole cropping, was evidenced by the values obtained for Land Equivalent Ratio (LER) for biomass, cob and pod yields that increased with increases in bean plant populations and nitrogen fertilizer levels.
dc.publisher Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
dc.source Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
dc.subject Zea mays
dc.subject Phaseolus vulgaris
dc.subject mixed cropping
dc.subject land use
dc.title Effects of plant population and nitrogen fertilizer on yield and efficiency of maize-bean intercropping


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