Differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levels

Intercropping and N fertilization play an important role in increasing crop yield. In order to further understand the advantage mechanism of intercropping and the effect of increasing N application on the advantage effect of intercropped crop, a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effe...

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Autores principales: Zhang,Xiangqian, Huang,Guoqin, Zhao,Qiguo
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-583920140003000112018-10-01Differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levelsZhang,XiangqianHuang,GuoqinZhao,Qiguo Chlorophyll content nitrogen content photosynthetic characters root dry mass yield Zea mays Intercropping and N fertilization play an important role in increasing crop yield. In order to further understand the advantage mechanism of intercropping and the effect of increasing N application on the advantage effect of intercropped crop, a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of different cropping patterns (i.e. M, maize monoculture; I1, maize-cotton intercrop; I2, maize-soybean intercrop) and N fertilization levels (N1, 100 kg ha-1; N2, 200 kg ha-1; N3, 300 kg ha-1; N4, 400 kg ha-1) on maize (Zea mays L.) Results showed that intercropping and increasing N application could enhance green leaf area per maize plant and chlorophyll content, and differences in green leaf area per plant and chlorophyll content between intercropping and monoculture under N1 were significant. Intercropping and increasing N application could improve maize photosynthetic characters, but their effects would be decreased with increasing N fertilization level. Root bleeding sap rate and root DM of maize were also obviously affected by intercropping and N fertilization, and the differences in root bleeding sap rate and root DM between I2 and M under N1 and N2 were significant. Compared to M, under N1, N2, N3, and N4, I2 increased grain N content by 12.8%, 6.3%, 2.7%, 1.5%, respectively. Intercropping and increasing N application could increase maize yield, and the difference in yield between I2 and M under N1 was significant. All the findings suggest that intercropping and increasing N application can improve maize physiological characters and increase maize root DM, N accumulation and yield, but their effects will be decreased with increasing N fertilization level.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessInstituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIAChilean journal of agricultural research v.74 n.3 20142014-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-58392014000300011en10.4067/S0718-58392014000300011
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language English
topic Chlorophyll content
nitrogen content
photosynthetic characters
root dry mass yield
Zea mays
spellingShingle Chlorophyll content
nitrogen content
photosynthetic characters
root dry mass yield
Zea mays
Zhang,Xiangqian
Huang,Guoqin
Zhao,Qiguo
Differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levels
description Intercropping and N fertilization play an important role in increasing crop yield. In order to further understand the advantage mechanism of intercropping and the effect of increasing N application on the advantage effect of intercropped crop, a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of different cropping patterns (i.e. M, maize monoculture; I1, maize-cotton intercrop; I2, maize-soybean intercrop) and N fertilization levels (N1, 100 kg ha-1; N2, 200 kg ha-1; N3, 300 kg ha-1; N4, 400 kg ha-1) on maize (Zea mays L.) Results showed that intercropping and increasing N application could enhance green leaf area per maize plant and chlorophyll content, and differences in green leaf area per plant and chlorophyll content between intercropping and monoculture under N1 were significant. Intercropping and increasing N application could improve maize photosynthetic characters, but their effects would be decreased with increasing N fertilization level. Root bleeding sap rate and root DM of maize were also obviously affected by intercropping and N fertilization, and the differences in root bleeding sap rate and root DM between I2 and M under N1 and N2 were significant. Compared to M, under N1, N2, N3, and N4, I2 increased grain N content by 12.8%, 6.3%, 2.7%, 1.5%, respectively. Intercropping and increasing N application could increase maize yield, and the difference in yield between I2 and M under N1 was significant. All the findings suggest that intercropping and increasing N application can improve maize physiological characters and increase maize root DM, N accumulation and yield, but their effects will be decreased with increasing N fertilization level.
author Zhang,Xiangqian
Huang,Guoqin
Zhao,Qiguo
author_facet Zhang,Xiangqian
Huang,Guoqin
Zhao,Qiguo
author_sort Zhang,Xiangqian
title Differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levels
title_short Differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levels
title_full Differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levels
title_fullStr Differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levels
title_full_unstemmed Differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levels
title_sort differences in maize physiological characteristics, nitrogen accumulation, and yield under different cropping patterns and nitrogen levels
publisher Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA
publishDate 2014
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-58392014000300011
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