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Long-Term Maize-Legume Intercropping Shifts Structure and Composition of Soil Microbiome with Potential Impacts on Ecosystem Services and Food Safety

2021-02-12

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Purpose: Push-pull is an intercropping technology that rapidly spreads among Sub-Saharan smallholder farmers. It intercrops maize with <italic>Desmodium </italic>to fight off stem borers, eliminate parasitic weeds, and improve soil fertility and yields. The above-ground components of push-pull cropping have been well investigated. However, impact on and from the soil microbiome and its...

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975cad20-7714-558e-97f6-0689b56de295
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-221776/v1
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