Effects of nodule bacteria inoculation on growth of pea/maize system
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DOI:10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2010.05.17
Key Words: inoculation  nodule bacteria  pea  maize  nodule  nitrogen
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ZHANG Hutian College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China 
GUO Lizhuo College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China 
CHAI Qiang College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China 
HE Yahui College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China 
HOU Lijuan College of Plant Protection and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agricultrue, Norhwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
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Abstract:
      A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of nodule bacteria inoculation (Non-inoculation, Inoculating XC3.1, Inoculating ACCC16101) and N application levels (Non-N, 0.3 gN/kg soil) on pea and maize growth and N content in different cropping patterns (pea and maize sole, pea/maize intercropping). The results showed that inoculating selected strain XC3.1 increased effectively nodules number and weight by 79.5%~131.6% and 174.1%~205.4% respectively, and improved N nutrition status of intercropped maize and pea in two cropping patterns. The improvement of N nutrition resulting from XC3.1 was better than that from strain ACCC16101. Inoculating XC3.1 promoted pea biomass in mono- and intercropping system by 22.0%, so did intercropped maize under non N applying condition by 123.1%. More effective pea nodules were formed in intercropping system than that in mono-cropping system. Intercropped pea accumulated less dry matter than mono-cropped pea at the same N level, and the average rate of decrease was 13.7%. Inoculating XC3.1 increased significantly not only the competition of maize to pea, but also the resistance of pea to maize.