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

Field Crops Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-71

  Hauggaard Nielsen, H ^a   Gooding, M ^b   Ambus, P ^a   Corre Hellou, G ^c   Crozat, Y ^c   Dahlmann, C ^d   Dibet, A ^c   von Fragstein, P ^d   Pristeri, A ^e   Monti, M ^e   Jensen, E S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c Ecole Superieure Agriculture   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

15N isotope techniques; Intercropping; Interspecific competition; Land Equivalent Ratio (LER); Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; COMPLEMENTARITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; INTERCROPPING; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRIENT USE; ORGANIC FARMING; POPULATION DENSITY; SOIL NUTRIENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; ITALY; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

HORDEUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 66049115807     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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