ArticleAgriculture, ecosystems & environment2018
Sustainable intensification through rotations with grain legumes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review.
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- Analysis of the beneficial effects of prior soybean cultivation to the field on corn yield and soil nitrogen content.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Consistency, variability, and predictability of on-farm nutrient responses in four grain legumes across East and West Africa.Field crops research · 2023Article
- Potentials of legumes rotation on yield and nitrogen uptake of subsequent wheat crop in northern Ethiopia.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Narrowing yield gaps does not guarantee a living income from smallholder farming-an empirical study from western Kenya.PloS one · 2023Article
- Long term effects of crop rotation and fertilization on crop yield stability in southeast China.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Biological nitrogen fixation and prospects for ecological intensification in cereal-based cropping systems.Field crops research · 2022Review
- Agronomic Traits, Fresh Food Processing Characteristics and Sensory Quality of 26 Mung Bean (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Field Margin Plants Support Natural Enemies in Sub-Saharan Africa Smallholder Common Bean Farming Systems.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Soybean Crops Penalize Subsequent Wheat Yield During Drought in the North China Plain.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
We conducted a systematic review of literature on the residual effects of grain legumes in cereal-based systems of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to quantify the magnitude and variability of rotational effects, to explore the importance of environmental and management factors in determining variability and to evaluate the evidence of the different mechanisms that explain rotational effects. We retrieved 44 unique publications providing 199 observations comparing continuous cereal performance with that of a grain legume-cereal rotation. The overall mean yield increase of 0.49 t grain ha
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