Soybean crop intensification for sustainable aboveground-underground plant–soil interactions

• DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1194867
• Publication Date: 2023-06-26T16:56:10Z
• Authors: Ramesh Kumar Singh; Pravin Kumar Upad...; Shiva Dhar; G. A. Rajanna; Vinod Kumar Singh; Rakesh Kumar; Rajiv Kumar Singh; Subhash Babu; Sanjay Singh Rathore; Kapila Shekhawat; Anchal Dass; Amit Kumar; Gaurendra Gupta; Gaurav Shukla; Sudhir Rajpoot; Ved Prakash; Bipin Kumar; Vinod Kumar Sharma; Sharmistha Barthakur
• Keywords: Stomatal Conductance; Crop Productivity; Crop Production

The major challenge of growing soybean, other than unfavorable weather and small farm size, is the non-availability quality inputs at right time. Furthermore, in soybean regions, crop productivity soil environment have deteriorated due to use traditional varieties conventional methods production. Soybean intensification or system (SCI) an agricultural production that boosts yields, improves environment, maximizes efficiency input utilization, although contribution SCI not well understood as different genotypes exhibit physiological responses. Therefore, a field study was conducted 2014–2015 2015–2016 using three establishment (SCI 45 cm × row spacing, 30 cm, method 10 cm) assisted vertical strips with four (Pusa 9,712, PS 1347, DS 12–13, 12–5) strip-plot design replications. Compared standard cultivation, adoption resulted significantly higher stomatal conductance (0.211 mol H 2 O m −2 s −1 ), transpiration rate (7.8 mmol net photosynthetic (398 CO ). implementation had greater intercepted active radiation (PAR) (1,249 ) system, increasing yield from 9.6 13.3% biomass 8.2 10.7%. In addition, under there were more nodules, larger root volume surface density, increased NPK uptake compared methods. Significantly dehydrogenase activity, alkaline phosphatase acetylene-reducing assay, total polysaccharides, microbial carbon, chlorophyll found (13.63 g TPF hr. , 93.2 p-nitro phenol 25.5 n moles ethylene 443.7 mg kg soil, 216.5 0.43 respectively). and/or could provide best for activities overall health, sustainable aboveground.