Summary
Intercropping corn with cover crops and inoculating with diazotrophic bacteria are sustainable low-cost practices that enhance nutrient cycling and uptake, leading to improved crop yield. Thus, this study evaluated the effects of monocropped corn versus intercropping with cover crops alongside foliar inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense . The experiment was conducted during the autumn-winter season in Dracena, within the Nova Alta Paulista region, Brazil, using a sandy-textured dystrophic Ultisol. The experiment was designed in a randomized blocks in a 4 × 2 factorial scheme, having four replicates. The treatments consisted of the cultivation of corn alone and intercropped with cover crops ( Crotalaria spectabilis , Urochloa ruziziensis and C. spectabilis + U. ruziziensis ) in the pres
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