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Short-term dynamics of soil organic matter fractions and microbial activity in smallholder potato-legume intercropping systems.

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Title Short-term dynamics of soil organic matter fractions and microbial activity in smallholder potato-legume intercropping systems.
 
Creator Nyawade, S.
Karanja, N.
Gachene, C.K.K.
Gitari, H.I.
Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar
Parker, M.
 
Subject intercropping
soil organic matter
potatoes
 
Description Continuous cultivation of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) in monoculture systems represents the greatest factor deteriorating soil organic matter (SOM) in smallholder farms. With an aim to breaking this norm, a 2-year field trial intercropping potato with two legumes: lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) and dolichos (Lablab purpureus), was conducted in the upper-midland (1552 meters above sea level (masl.)), lower-highland (1854 masl.) and upper-highland (2552 masl.) agro-ecologies of Kenya. Residues from each cropping system were quantified at the end of each season and incorporated back into the soil at start of the subsequent season. A combined physical and density fractionation was used to separate the soil in macro-aggregates (>250 μm), micro-aggregates (250–50 μm) and silt plus clay fractions (
 
Date 2019-10
2019-07-08T21:14:39Z
2019-07-08T21:14:39Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Nyawade, S.O.; Karanja, N.N.; Gachene, C.K.; Gitari, H.I.; Schulte-Geldermann, E.; Parker, M.L. 2019. Short-term dynamics of soil organic matter fractions and microbial activity in smallholder potato-legume intercropping systems. Applied Soil Ecology. 142. pp. 123–135.
0929-1393
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102103
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2019.04.015
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 123-135
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source Applied Soil Ecology