ArticleBMC plant biology2026
Rotational strip peanut/cereal intercropping systems improve soil quality and crop yields in aeolian sandy soil.
Article in BMC plant biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Aeolian sandy soil occupied one-fifth of the agricultural land in Northeast China; however, effective strategies to mitigate aeolian sandy soil degradation and enhance crop production remain largely unexplored. Here, a two-year field experiment was conducted on the aeolian sandy soil to evaluate the effects of rotational strip peanut/cereal intercropping systems on soil quality and crop yields. The experiment comprised seven treatments: peanut/corn intercropping with strip widths of 3, 6, and 9 m; peanut/millet intercropping with strip widths of 3, 6, and 9 m; and a peanut monoculture serving as the control. We showed that both peanut/corn and peanut/millet intercropping systems significantly enhanced the nutrient levels including total alkaline- hydrolyzable nitrogen, available phosphorus, available potassium, and organic matter in the rhizosphere soil compared with peanut monoculture. Moreover, the activities of soil enzymes such as catalase, cellulase, urease, and phosphomonoesterase were substantially increased in intercropping treatments. Entropy-weighted TOPSIS analysis indicated that peanut/corn and peanut/millet intercropping with strip width of 6-m treatments achieved optimal performance in regulating soil nutrients, enhancing enzyme activities, and improving land-use efficiency. These two treatments also significantly increased the peanut yield and total output values, reduced total input costs, while optimized economic returns over peanut monoculture. In summary, this study provides scientific evidence that rotational peanut/cereal intercropping systems utilizing a 6-m strip width could be utilized as practical strategies for improving crop production, restoring ecological balance, and ensuring sustainable land management of aeolian sandy soil in Northeast China.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.