Growth, Yield and Nutritional Performance
of Sweet Sorghum and Legumes in Sole
and Intercropping Influenced by Type of Legume,
Nitrogen Level and Air Quality

Arshad, Muhammad; Nawaz, Rab; Ahmad, Sajjad; Shah, Ghulam Abbas; Faiz, Furrukh; Ahmad, Naveed; Irshad, Muhammad; Ranamukhaarachchi, S. L.

doi:10.15244/pjoes/104461

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“…The highest grain yield was obtained (2779.8 kg/ha) in the pure culture of sorghum and it was statistically significant in comparison to sorghum-legume (1953.4 kg/ha) intercrop [36] . The results were in line with an experiment performed by Arshad and Ranamukhaarachchi (2012) in which plant height of sorghum was reduced in sorghum-mungbean cropping system in comparison to sole culture [37] . This reduction in grain yield was due to the reduced number of grains panicle-1of sorghum that resulted in the competition of growth resources (air, space moisture, and nutrients) in sorghum-legume cropping system compared with sole sorghum [38] .…”

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Yield and economic attributes of cereal and legume as affected by the sole and mixed cropping system in rainfed conditions

Yousaf¹,

Rahman²

2022

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A major worldwide challenge of the modern era is to meet the food demand of the increasing population. These issues can be resolved by introducing a system that can maximize overall productivity and net economic returns, with efficient utilization of limited available resources and causing minimal disturbance to the natural ecosystem. The use of cereal-legume intercropping system tends to meet these challenges by enhancing grain production with better economic gains. Keeping in view its significance, a field trial was conducted during the summer of 2016 to determine the feasibility of sorghum-mungbean cropping system compared with the mono-cropping system. The cropping patterns followed as sole mungbean, sole sorghum, mungbean-sorghum. The yield and its attributes of sole and intercrops were statistically significant (P<0.05). The sole cropping pattern was beneficial and gave maximum results for yield attributes of both crops due to less competition between plants in comparison with the intercropping system. Whereas, the intercropping system had more total per unit area production compared to the sole cropping system. The partial LER of sorghum (0.70) and mungbean (0.76) depicted a total yield advantage of 70-76% in this system. The total value of intercropping advantage (IA) was maximum positive (+38.5), which indicated that this system was economically more feasible than the sole cropping system.

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Yield and economic attributes of cereal and legume as affected by the sole and mixed cropping system in rainfed conditions

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Rahman²

2022

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“…This method is a feasible harvesting practice ( 11 , 12 ). Sorghum intercropping with some legumes has many economic returns ( 13 – 15 ), and the sorghum ratooning practice also has several advantages, such as no need for new seed and land preparation, covering of time of sowing, and high grain yield and quality ( 12 ). Zhou et al ( 16 ) reported that sorghum ratoon crop has high contents of starch, protein, and tannin and low fat content after application of nitrogen fertilizer.…”

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Comparative assessment of nutritional and functional properties of different sorghum genotypes for ensuring nutritional security in dryland agro-ecosystem

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The cultivation of unique sorghum (resistant to abiotic stresses and re-recognized as healthy food) has attracted interest as an environmentally friendly minor cereal and may be a solution to food and nutritional security. However, information about how the use of selected sorghum grains affects nutritive values and its functional properties from sorghum flours is still lacking. To address this question, we selected six sorghum varieties (i.e., JinZa 34, LiaoZa 19, JinNuo 3, JiZa 127, JiNiang 2, and JiaXian) for the comprehensive analysis of the relationship among nutritional compositions, energy value contributions, and functional properties of sorghum grains. Results showed that Carr’s index (CI) and angle of repose (AR) of all sorghum flours indicated good flow and compressibility properties in terms of micrometric parameters. All sorghums were considered free of tannin. Based on the scatterplot analysis, the proportions of energy contributions due to protein, fat, and carbohydrate (CHO), were highly positively correlated with protein, fat, and CHO, respectively. The significantly different flours of six sorghum varieties resulted in different functional properties. The amylose content showed a highly negative association with light transmittance and water and oil absorption capacities. In addition, amylose had a highly positive relationship with water solubility (WS) and swelling power (SP). JinNuo 3 had the highest nutritional compositions [proximate, mineral, anti-nutritional values, and amino acid (AA) profiles] and functional properties indicating that it could be used as a brewing liquor. Our findings will provide a new opportunity to cultivate sorghum as an environment friendly minor cereal crop in dryland agro-ecosystems of arid and semi-arid regions of northern China for nutritional security, agriculture processing, and non-food industry in the future.

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“…Despite that, their high demand for nutrients and water must not overlap to minimize interspecific competition. Several reports used different legume species to grow with the cereal, such as faba bean (Bechtaoui et al, 2019a;Zhang et al, 2019), cowpea (Takim, 2012), soybean (Baghdadi et al, 2016;Arshad et al, 2020), and mungbean (Arshad et al, 2020). The ability to intercrop to reduce erosion and improve soil fertility makes intercropping a wellrecommended cropping system.…”

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Co-inoculation With Rhizobacteria and Mycorrhizae Can Improve Wheat/Faba Bean Intercrop Performance Under Field Conditions

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Current challenges of climate changes and demographic expansion have imposed increasing awareness about innovation in sustainable agricultural practices. Farming practices like intercropping have many benefits in terms of nutrient use and yield stability. Improving the performance of intercropping systems by the application of beneficial microorganisms (rhizobacteria and/or mycorrhizae) constitutes a promising strategy. In this regard, this study aimed to assess the effect of inoculation with beneficial microorganisms on wheat as monocrop or intercrop with faba bean, using four inoculation treatments: (i) inoculation with rhizobacteria, (ii) inoculation with mycorrhizae, (iii) inoculation with the rhizobacteria-mycorrhizae consortium, and (iv) a control treatment consisting of uninoculated plants. Results showed that rhizobacteria-mycorrhizae co-inoculation under intercropping system improved plant dry weight and spike weight of wheat by 375 and 162%, respectively, compared with uninoculated intercropped wheat. The thousand-seed weight was improved by 86% in wheat intercropped and inoculated with the rhizobacteria-mycorrhizae consortium. Furthermore, higher P and N concentrations were observed in shoots and spikes of wheat intercropped with faba bean, and this increase was also observed in response to inoculation with the rhizobacteria-mycorrhizae consortium in terms of P in shoots and spikes (by 74 and 18%) of intercropped wheat. In addition, intercropped wheat has significantly accumulated sugar in the seeds for all inoculated treatments (except inoculation with mycorrhizae). Overall, these findings revealed that intercropping and inoculation yielded better, suggesting that intercropping combined with the application of beneficial microorganisms, such as rhizobacteria and mycorrhizae, have the potential to improve overall crop yield.

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Growth, Yield and Nutritional Performance of Sweet Sorghum and Legumes in Sole and Intercropping Influenced by Type of Legume, Nitrogen Level and Air Quality

Cited by 10 publications

References 28 publications

Yield and economic attributes of cereal and legume as affected by the sole and mixed cropping system in rainfed conditions

Yield and economic attributes of cereal and legume as affected by the sole and mixed cropping system in rainfed conditions

Comparative assessment of nutritional and functional properties of different sorghum genotypes for ensuring nutritional security in dryland agro-ecosystem

Co-inoculation With Rhizobacteria and Mycorrhizae Can Improve Wheat/Faba Bean Intercrop Performance Under Field Conditions

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