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ArticlePloS one2024

The potential of durum wheat-chickpea intercropping to improve the soil available phosphorus status and biomass production in a subtropical climate.

Amira Souid, Wissem Hamdi, Boulbaba L'taief, Amal Attallah, Nourredine Hamdi, Mohammed O Alshaharni, Mohamed Faouazi Zagrarni

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Amira SouidHigher Institute of the Sciences and Techniques of Waters, Gabes University, Gabes, Tunisia.
Wissem HamdiHigher Institute of the Sciences and Techniques of Waters, Gabes University, Gabes, Tunisia.ORCID 0000-0002-4753-0901
Boulbaba L'taiefBiology Department, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Amal AttallahHigher Institute of the Sciences and Techniques of Waters, Gabes University, Gabes, Tunisia.
Nourredine HamdiHigher Institute of the Sciences and Techniques of Waters, Gabes University, Gabes, Tunisia.
Mohammed O AlshaharniBiology Department, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed Faouazi ZagrarniHigher Institute of the Sciences and Techniques of Waters, Gabes University, Gabes, Tunisia.

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Abstract

The intercropping system is a promising approach to augmenting the soil nutrient status and promoting sustainable crop production. However, it is not known whether intercropping improves the soil phosphorus (P) status in alluvial soils with low P under subtropical climates. Over two growing seasons--2019-2020 and 2020-2021--two experimental fields were employed to explore the effect of durum wheat (Dw) and chickpea (Cp) cropping systems on the soil available P. A randomized complete block design was used in this experiment, with three blocks each divided into three plots. Each plot was used for one of the following three treatments with three replications: Dw monocrop (Dw-MC), Cp monocrop (Cp-MC), and Dw + Cp intercrop (CpDw-InC), with bulk soil (BS) used as a control. A reduction in the rhizosphere soil pH (-0.44 and -0.11 unit) was observed in the (Cp-MC) and (CpDw-InC) treatments over BS, occurring concomitantly with a significant increase in available P in the rhizosphere soil of around 28.45% for CpDw-InC and 24.9% for Cp-MC over BS. Conversely, the rhizosphere soil pH was significantly higher (+0.12 units) in the Dw-MC treatments. In addition, intercropping enhanced the soil microbial biomass P, with strong positive correlations observed between the biomass P and available P in the Cp-MC treatment, whereas this correlation was negative in the CpDw-InC and Dw-MC treatments. These findings suggested that Cp intercropped with Dw could be a viable approach in enhancing the available P through improved pH variation and biomass P when cultivated on alluvial soil under a subtropical climate.

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BiomassCicerPhosphorusSoilTriticumAgricultureClimateCrop ProductionCrops, AgriculturalHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationRhizosphereTropical ClimatePhosphorusSoil

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PMCPMC11090335

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