Evaluation of monocropped and intercropped grain legumes for cover cropping in no-tillage and reduced tillage organic agriculture

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 83-94

  Rühlemann, Lars ^a   Schmidtke, Knut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cover crop; Intercropping; Nitrogen fixation; Organic farming; Organic no till; Weed suppression

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COVER CROP; GROWTH RATE; HUMUS; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LEGUME; ORGANIC FARMING; SOIL EROSION; SYMBIOSIS; WEED CONTROL; ZERO TILLAGE;

GERMANY;

HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; LATHYRUS SATIVUS; LUPINUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS; PISUM SATIVUM; VICIA FABA; VICIA SATIVA; VICIA SATIVA SUBSP. NIGRA;

EID: 84922716273     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2015.01.006     Document Type: Article

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