Maize leaf-removal: A new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system
Shading conditions adversely affect flower-number and pod-number of soybeans under maize-soybean relay-intercropping (MS(R)). Here we reveal that leaf-removal from maize-canopy improves the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) transmittance and dry-matter production (DMP) of soybean (especially...
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author | Raza, Muhammad Ali Feng, Ling Yang van der Werf, Wopke Iqbal, Nasir Khalid, Muhammad Hayder Bin Chen, Yuan Kai Wasaya, Allah Ahmed, Shoaib Ud Din, Atta Mohi Khan, Ahsin Ahmed, Saeed Yang, Feng Yang, Wenyu |
author_facet | Raza, Muhammad Ali Feng, Ling Yang van der Werf, Wopke Iqbal, Nasir Khalid, Muhammad Hayder Bin Chen, Yuan Kai Wasaya, Allah Ahmed, Shoaib Ud Din, Atta Mohi Khan, Ahsin Ahmed, Saeed Yang, Feng Yang, Wenyu |
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description | Shading conditions adversely affect flower-number and pod-number of soybeans under maize-soybean relay-intercropping (MS(R)). Here we reveal that leaf-removal from maize-canopy improves the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) transmittance and dry-matter production (DMP) of soybean (especially during the co-growth phase), and compensates the maize seed-yield loss by considerably increasing soybean seed-yield. In a two-year experiment with MS(R), maize-plants were subjected to different leaf-removal treatments to increase the PAR-transmittance of soybean; removal of the topmost two-leaves (R2), four-leaves (R4), six-leaves (R6), with no-removal of leaves (R0). Leaf-removal treatments improved the PAR-transmittance, photosynthetic-rate, and morphological-characteristics of soybean under MS(R). At 90 days after sowing, the dry-matter of pods, and seeds was increased by 25%, and 32%, respectively under R6 than R0. Importantly, enhanced PAR-transmittance and DMP under R6 enabled soybean to initiate a greater number of flowers 182.2 plant(−1) compared to 142.7 plant(−1) under R0, and it also decreased the flower-abscission (by 13%, from 54.9% under R0 to 47.6% under R6). These positive responses increased the pod-number by 49% and seed-number by 28% under R6 than R0. Overall, under R6, relay-intercropped soybean produced 78% of sole-soybean seed-yield, and relay-intercropped maize produced 81% of sole-maize seed-yield and achieved the land equivalent ratio of 1.59. |
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spelling | pubmed-67489732019-09-27 Maize leaf-removal: A new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system Raza, Muhammad Ali Feng, Ling Yang van der Werf, Wopke Iqbal, Nasir Khalid, Muhammad Hayder Bin Chen, Yuan Kai Wasaya, Allah Ahmed, Shoaib Ud Din, Atta Mohi Khan, Ahsin Ahmed, Saeed Yang, Feng Yang, Wenyu Sci Rep Article Shading conditions adversely affect flower-number and pod-number of soybeans under maize-soybean relay-intercropping (MS(R)). Here we reveal that leaf-removal from maize-canopy improves the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) transmittance and dry-matter production (DMP) of soybean (especially during the co-growth phase), and compensates the maize seed-yield loss by considerably increasing soybean seed-yield. In a two-year experiment with MS(R), maize-plants were subjected to different leaf-removal treatments to increase the PAR-transmittance of soybean; removal of the topmost two-leaves (R2), four-leaves (R4), six-leaves (R6), with no-removal of leaves (R0). Leaf-removal treatments improved the PAR-transmittance, photosynthetic-rate, and morphological-characteristics of soybean under MS(R). At 90 days after sowing, the dry-matter of pods, and seeds was increased by 25%, and 32%, respectively under R6 than R0. Importantly, enhanced PAR-transmittance and DMP under R6 enabled soybean to initiate a greater number of flowers 182.2 plant(−1) compared to 142.7 plant(−1) under R0, and it also decreased the flower-abscission (by 13%, from 54.9% under R0 to 47.6% under R6). These positive responses increased the pod-number by 49% and seed-number by 28% under R6 than R0. Overall, under R6, relay-intercropped soybean produced 78% of sole-soybean seed-yield, and relay-intercropped maize produced 81% of sole-maize seed-yield and achieved the land equivalent ratio of 1.59. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6748973/ /pubmed/31530859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49858-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Raza, Muhammad Ali Feng, Ling Yang van der Werf, Wopke Iqbal, Nasir Khalid, Muhammad Hayder Bin Chen, Yuan Kai Wasaya, Allah Ahmed, Shoaib Ud Din, Atta Mohi Khan, Ahsin Ahmed, Saeed Yang, Feng Yang, Wenyu Maize leaf-removal: A new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system |
title | Maize leaf-removal: A new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system |
title_full | Maize leaf-removal: A new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system |
title_fullStr | Maize leaf-removal: A new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system |
title_full_unstemmed | Maize leaf-removal: A new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system |
title_short | Maize leaf-removal: A new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system |
title_sort | maize leaf-removal: a new agronomic approach to increase dry matter, flower number and seed-yield of soybean in maize soybean relay intercropping system |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6748973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31530859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49858-8 |
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