Effects of Morphological Traits and Cultural Practices of Intercropped Soybeans and Cereals

Research on intercropping systems has become of importance because of the serious concern over increasing world population and the concurrent demand for more food. Intercropping and other types of multiple cropping are viewed as possible methods of increasing food production. In experiments reported here, soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) were intercropped with either sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) or maize (Zea mays L.) to study (1) the effects of sorghum plant height, maize leaf angle, delayed planting of sorghum and maize, and row width on interrow-intercropped soybeans, and (2) the effect of nodulating and nonnodulating near-isolines of soybeans on intercropped sorghum. Three experiments were conducted to consider each of the general objectives.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agronomy

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Elmore, Roger Wesley

• Agriculture, Agronomy

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8203453

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68474