companion planting

Example Sentences

• "The selection of a crop for planting patterns also affects the metal uptake by plants. Liu et al. (2012) studied the effect of crops (maize [Zea mays], tomato, cabbage, and pakchoi), and different planting patterns such as monoculture crops companion-planted with a legume, and crop companion planted with another crop on heavy-metal uptake by plants under field conditions. A higher Cd concentration was found in tomato and pakchoi than in cabbage and maize. Companion planting with Japanese clover increased the Cd concentration in crops compared to the monoculture. The increase in Cd uptake by plants with coplanting was believed to be due to the increase in bioavailable Cd concentration in the soil aroused by the release of low molecular weight organic acids from roots of the second crop as suggested by Liu et al. (2012). Tang et al. (2012) further confirmed that cocropping with phytoextraction plants and food crops may reduce Cd concentrations in food crops, thus, might be an option to reduce Cd concentrations in grains (Rizwan et al., 2016a). Conversely, proper cropping pattern might possibly enhance Cd phytoremediation by crops. From the perspective of phytoextraction, however, a major mechanism for enhancing phytoextraction by intercropping is that an intercropped hyperaccumulator can mobilize selected metals for a coplanted high-biomass nonhyperaccumulator (Gove et al., 2002)."
• "Perennial forage legumes yield poorly in the first planting year[;] therefore[,] companion planting of annual forage legumes with perennial legumes during their crop establishment period is generally suggested. […] Sugarcane consumes a huge amount of nutrients from soil reservoirs, but its coplanting with legumes may increase soil fertility and productivity and enhances RUE [resource use efficiency]."
• "If you're not keen to turn your garage into a lab, try coplanting in the garden. Studies have shown that wine cap mushrooms, for example, can boost corn's ability to produce delicious ears. These mushrooms are prolific decomposers, they digest organic matter in the soil, and this adds nutrients to the system that the hungry corn eagerly convert into sweet kernels. To start companion planting with fungi, add woodchips and mushroom spawn to your soil. This can be purchased online. Wine caps, and other tasty species like the phoenix oyster mushroom, can be grown this way."