Role of biological nitrogen fixation in legume based cropping systems; a case study of West Africa farming systems

By N. Sanginga. Plant and Soil, 2003

213 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. K. Giller
2. B. Vanlauwe
3. M. V. Wijk
4. S. Twomlow
5. P. Tittonell

In Plant Science

1. B. Vanlauwe
2. K. Giller
3. N. E. Nielsen
4. N. Sanginga
5. J. Lynch

Citations in the corpus

• Yields and accumulations of N and P in farmer-managed intercrops of maize–pigeonpea in semi-arid Africa (2006, background): “The input of fixed N from grain legumes may be a significant contributing factor in relation to sustaining productivity in smallholder systems (Giller 2001; Sanginga 2003) if the legumes leave sufficient amounts of residues (Giller et al. 1994).”
• Phosphorus benefits from grain-legume crops to subsequent maize grown on acid soils of southern Cameroon (2006, background): “Therefore, the incorporation into a rotation of legumes plants that are efficient at acquiring P from less available sources and/or in combination with cheaper sources of P such as phosphate rock (PR) generally available in many African countries may benefit subsequent maize.”
• Biological nitrogen fixation and nitrogen and phosphorus budgets in farmer-managed intercrops of maize–pigeonpea in semi-arid southern and eastern Africa (2007, background): “Nevertheless, the continuous cropping of sole maize without adequate restoration of soil fertility will further exacerbate the problem and threaten sustainability of the production systems in the study area which represent the variability in soil and climatic conditions typical for semi-arid Sub-Sah”
• A staggered maize-legume intercrop arrangement robustly increases crop yields and economic returns in the highlands of Central Kenya. (2010, result): “This has also been reported by other authors (Giller et al., 1994; Sanginga et al., 2000; Sanginga, 2003).”
• Understanding variability in soybean yield and response to P-fertilizer and rhizobium inoculants on farmers’ fields in northern Nigeria (2016, background): “Some authors reported a significant increase, however, in the number of nodules (Okogun and Sanginga, 2003; Osunde et al., 2003b) or biomass (Osunde et al., 2003b; PuleMeulenberg et al., 2011; Thuita et al., 2012).”
• Productivity and residual benefits of grain legumes to sorghum under semi-arid conditions in southwestern Zimbabwe (2007, background): “The positive responses of cereals following legumes have been attributed largely to enhanced availability of nitrogen (N) to the cereal crop (Sanginga 2003).”