The potential of alley cropping systems supplied with a limited amount of fertilizer to restore crop productivity on a degraded site and to maintain crop productivity on a recently cleared, non-degraded site on ‘terre de barre' soils in Southern Bénin was investigated from 1994 to 1996. Leucaena ...
Aihou, K.
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Sanginga, N.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Lyasse, O.
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Diels, J.
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Merckx, R.
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[Alley cropping in the moist savanna of West Africa I. Restoration and maintenance of soil fertility on terre de barre soils in Benin Republic]
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Alley cropping in the moist savanna of West Africa I. Restoration and maintenance of soil fertility on terre de barre soils in Benin Republic
Research to identify appropriate means of sustaining tropical soil productivity has intensified during the last 2 decades and promising technologies such as minimum tillage, herbaceous and tree based systems, and improved fallows have been identified. This paper discusses the contribution of soil...
Sanginga, N.
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Mulongoy, K.
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Swift, M.
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[Contribution of soil organisms to the sustainability and productivity cropping systems in the tropics]
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Contribution of soil organisms to the sustainability and productivity cropping systems in the tropics
Establishment of Leucaena leucocephala was poor at Ibadan (Transition forest-savanna zone) and Fashola (savanna zone, 70 km north of Ibadan) in southwestern Nigeria as a result of low soil fertility and the presence of only a few native rhizobia capable of nodulating it. Inoculation with L. leuco...
Sanginga, N.
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Danso, S.K.A.
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Mulongoy, K.
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Ojeifo, A.A.
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[Persistence and recovery of introduced Rhizobium ten years after inoculation on Leucaena leucocephala grown on an Alfisol in southwetern Nigeria]
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Persistence and recovery of introduced Rhizobium ten years after inoculation on Leucaena leucocephala grown on an Alfisol in southwetern Nigeria
Differences in growth, nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) root infection among recent cowpea breeding lines from IITA were examined at low and high P levels in pot (94 lines) and field experiments (43 lines) at Fashola in the derived savanna zone of Nigeria. Based on their growth p...
Sanginga, N.
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Lyasse, O.
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Singh, B.
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[Phosphorus use efficiency and nitrogen balance of cowpea breeding lines in a low P soil of the derived savanna zone in West Africa]
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Phosphorus use efficiency and nitrogen balance of cowpea breeding lines in a low P soil of the derived savanna zone in West Africa
The fumigation–incubation (FI) and the fumigation–extraction (FE) ninhydrin methods for quantifying the microbial biomass pool were tested and the relationships between microbial biomass characteristics and soil organic matter fractions (separated following particle size) investigated for a range...
Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Nwoke, O.C.
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Sanginga, N.
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Merckx, R.
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[Evaluation of methods for measuring microbial biomass C and N and relationship between microbial biomass with soil organic matter particle size classes in West African soils]
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Evaluation of methods for measuring microbial biomass C and N and relationship between microbial biomass with soil organic matter particle size classes in West African soils
The IITA in its research for sustainable soil fertility management has passed through several stages during which legume-based systems were always at the forefront. Alley cropping has N yields of more than 200 kg ha-1 with 50% N2 fixation. In the case of Mucuna cover cropping, the ecological bene...
Carsky, R.
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Sanginga, N.
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Schulz, S.
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Douthwaite, Boru
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Diels, J.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Keatinge, J.D.H.
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[The ability to fix N is not the only key to delivery of the benefits of BNF to farmers: experience of IITA in the savannas of Africa]
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The ability to fix N is not the only key to delivery of the benefits of BNF to farmers: experience of IITA in the savannas of Africa