Promoting Intercropping Systems in Sustainable Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Intercropping is a system where two or more crop species or genotypes are grown in the same space at the same time. Intercropping is a system that promotes ecological intensification as it increases the biodiversity of cropping systems by increasing the number of cultivated species and especially by increasing the proportion of legumes. Thus, intercropping systems received great attention during the last decade because of their advantages; however, they have significant disadvantages that makes it difficult for them to be adapted by farmers.

This Special Issue aims to promote the use of intercropping in cropping systems and invites original research, reviews, meta-analyses concerning all aspects of intercropping such as agronomy, modeling, plant physiology, genetics, and plant breeding for intercropping, weed and pest management, bioeconomy and circular agriculture, agroecology, precision agriculture, phenotyping, etc.

Prof. Dr. Christos A. Dordas
Guest Editor

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