Cultivar grain yield in durum wheat-grain legumes intercrops could be estimated from sole crop yields and interspecific interaction index

Kammoun Bochra, Journet Etienne-Pascal, Justes Eric, Bedoussac Laurent. 2021. Cultivar grain yield in durum wheat-grain legumes intercrops could be estimated from sole crop yields and interspecific interaction index. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12:733705, 14 p.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.733705

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Quartile : Q1, Sujet : PLANT SCIENCES

Résumé : Ensuring food security for a world population projected to reach over nine billion by 2050 while mitigating the environmental impacts and climate change represent the major agricultural challenges. Diversification of the cropping systems using notably cereal–legume mixtures is one key pathway for such agroecological intensification. Indeed, intercropping is recognised as a practice having the potential to increase and stabilise the yields in comparison with sole crops while limiting the use of inputs notably when species exploit resources in a complementary way. However, predicting intercropped species grain yield remains a challenge because the species respond to competition through complex genotype x cropping mode interactions. Here, we hypothesised that the grain yield achieved by a cultivar in low nitrogen input durum wheat–grain legume intercrops (ICs) could be estimated using a few simple variables. The present work is based on a 2-year field experiment carried out in southwestern France using two durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L.), four winter pea (Pisum sativum L.), and four winter faba bean (Vicia faba L.) genotypes with contrasting characteristics, notably in terms of height and precocity, to explore a wide range of durum wheat–grain legume phenotypes combinations to generate variability in terms of yield and species proportion. The major result is that the yield of durum wheat–grain legume IC component in low nitrogen input conditions could be correctly estimated from only three variables: (i) wheat cultivar full density sole crop (SC) yield, (ii) legume cultivar half density sole crop (SC½) yield, and (iii) an indicator of legume cultivar response to interspecific competition. The latter variable, the interspecific interaction index (IE), reveals cultivars' competitive abilities and tolerance to competition. However, to propose generic IC design and management procedures, further mechanistic understanding is required to better understand the links between tolerance to interspecific competition and cultivar phenotype characteristics. In particular, a special emphasis on the grain legume is needed as their response to interspecific competition appears less predictable than that of durum wheat. Cultivar choice is a key element to optimise the functional complementarity and subsequent IC advantages. This work proposes a simple tool to assist the design of specific breeding programs for cultivars ideotypes adapted to intercropping.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : culture intercalaire, rendement des cultures, Triticum turgidum, Pisum sativum, Vicia faba, compétition interspécifique, légume sec, intéraction génotype environnement

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : France

Mots-clés libres : Intercropping, Agroecology, Interspecific Competition, Genotype main effect plus genotype x environment

Classification Agris : F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture
F30 - Génétique et amélioration des plantes

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 2 (2019-) - Transitions agroécologiques

Agences de financement européennes : European Commission

Programme de financement européen : H2020

Projets sur financement : (EU) Redesigning European cropping systems based on species MIXtures

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