Table 1 Summary of studies showing the potential of cereal/legume intercropping those contribute to alleviating micronutrient deficiency
From: Mechanisms underlying cereal/legume intercropping as nature-based biofortification: A review
Type of intercropping | Part of plants | Contribution to Biofortification | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
Peanut/maize, Wheat/chickpea, Peanut/barley, Peanut/oats | Shoot and grain | Fe and Zn | (Zuo and Zhang 2009) |
Graminaceous/Leguminosae | Root, other | Fe | (Dai et al. 2019) |
pearl millet/legumes | grain and stover | N, P, and protein | (Sharma and Gupta 2002) |
Peanut/maize | Shoot | Fe, Zn, P, and K, | (Inal et al. 2007) |
Cucumber/green garlic | Root and shoot | N, P, K, Ca, and Mn | (Xiao et al. 2013) |
Sorghum/cowpea | Seed | Ca, Mg, Cu, Mn, and Fe | (Musa et al. 2012) |
Rice-water spinach | Shoot | Si (silicon) | (Ning et al. 2017) |