Production and N nutrient performance of wheat-maize-soybean relay strip intercropping system and evaluation of interspecies competition

Abstract

Abstract: The aim of this paper was to study the variation of interspecies competitiveness in two relay strip intercropping system: wheat-maize-soybean and wheat-maize-sweet potato. The character of biomass accumulation and nitrogen uptake were examined for five cropping systems using years of field experiment. The cropping systems included three sole cropping systems (wheat-soybean, wheat-sweet potato and maize) and two relay strip intercropping systems (wheat/maize/soybean and wheat/maize/sweet potato). Land equivalent ratio (LER), aggressiveness (A), and nutrition competition ratio(NCR) were introduced as indexes to evaluate the interspecies competitiveness in each treatment. The results showed that there was obvious relay strip intercropping advantage (LER>1, A_wc<0, A_cs>0, NCR_wc<0, NCR_cs>1) in the wheat-maize-soybean relay strip intercropping system, maize occupied the dominant niche for the whole growing stage in the relay strip intercropping systems, and the interspecies competitiveness of wheat and soybean were lower than that of the maize. Comparing with the sole cropping systems and wheat-maize-sweet potato relay strip intercropping system, the grain yield and nitrogen uptake, total biomass and total nitrogen uptake above ground of crops were increased significantly at both flowering (or spinning) and maturity stages in the wheat-maize-soybean relay strip intercropping system. The values of biomass and nitrogen uptake for the relay strip intercropping system were greater than the sole cropping systems, and that of soybean stubble were greater than sweet potato stubble. The total economic returns of crops in the wheat/maize/soybean relay strip intercropping system was higher 28.02% than those of crops in the wheat/maize/sweet potato relay strip intercropping system.

CLC Number:

S344.3

YONG Tai-wen, YANG Wen-yu, XIANG Da-bing, CHEN Xiao-rong, WAN Yan . Production and N nutrient performance of wheat-maize-soybean relay strip intercropping system and evaluation of interspecies competition[J]. Acta Prataculturae Sinica, 2012, 21(1): 50-58.

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