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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Companion Crops as Catalysts for Sustainable Cover Cropping in Vineyards-A Critical Review and Research Agenda.

Mehdi Sharifi, Zahra Zolfaghari

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mehdi SharifiSummerland Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, BC V0H 1Z0, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3136-6139
Zahra ZolfaghariSustainable Agriculture Services Inc., Peterborough, ON K9H 2P6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4575-8849

Funding

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada British Columbia Wine Grape Council through Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership Program (SCAP- Grape and Wine Cluster - Activity 4- Part 1; Project SCAP-ASC-12)British Columbia Wine Grape Council Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership Program (SCAP- Grape and Wine Cluster - Activity 4- Part 1; Project SCAP-ASC-12)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vineyard cover crops deliver well-documented ecosystem services, yet consistent establishment, especially of perennial grasses and legumes, remains a primary barrier to adoption. This review reframes "companion (nurse) cropping" not as a new crop class but as a facilitative establishment strategy within the broader cover-/service-crop literature. We (i) position our contribution relative to recent syntheses, (ii) synthesize evidence on companion crops practices that reduce cover cropping early failure risk, and (iii) propose a testable research agenda. A focused scoping review of peer-reviewed and extension literature indexed in Web of Science and Google Scholar was conducted using search terms encompassing cover/service crops and nurse/companion/facilitation in viticulture systems. Across climates, fast-establishing cereals (

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cereal–legume mixturesecosystem servicesestablishment successgrapevine competitionmicroclimate moderationresource competitionvegetation regulation

Identifiers

PMID41095197
PMCPMC12525961

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