Agro-Techniques for Lodging Stress Management in Maize-Soybean Intercropping System-A Review

Ali Raza^{1

2}, Muhammad Ahsan Asghar³, Bushra Ahmad⁴, Cheng Bin^{1

2}, M Iftikhar Hussain⁵, Wang Li^{1

2}, Tauseef Iqbal^{1

2}, Muhammad Yaseen⁶, Iram Shafiq^{1

2}, Zhang Yi^{1

2}, Irshan Ahmad^{1

2}, Wenyu Yang^{1

2}, Liu Weiguo^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China.
² Institute of Ecological Agriculture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China.
³ CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhou 610000, China.
⁴ Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38000, Punjab, Pakistan.
⁵ Department of Plant Biology & Soil Science, Universidad de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Institute of Rice Research, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang Chengdu 625014, China.

PMID: 33212960
PMCID: PMC7698466
DOI: 10.3390/plants9111592

Review

Agro-Techniques for Lodging Stress Management in Maize-Soybean Intercropping System-A Review

Ali Raza et al. Plants (Basel). 2020.

. 2020 Nov 17;9(11):1592.

doi: 10.3390/plants9111592.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China.
² Institute of Ecological Agriculture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China.
³ CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhou 610000, China.
⁴ Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38000, Punjab, Pakistan.
⁵ Department of Plant Biology & Soil Science, Universidad de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Institute of Rice Research, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang Chengdu 625014, China.

PMID: 33212960
PMCID: PMC7698466
DOI: 10.3390/plants9111592

Abstract

Lodging is one of the most chronic restraints of the maize-soybean intercropping system, which causes a serious threat to agriculture development and sustainability. In the maize-soybean intercropping system, shade is a major causative agent that is triggered by the higher stem length of a maize plant. Many morphological and anatomical characteristics are involved in the lodging phenomenon, along with the chemical configuration of the stem. Due to maize shading, soybean stem evolves the shade avoidance response and resulting in the stem elongation that leads to severe lodging stress. However, the major agro-techniques that are required to explore the lodging stress in the maize-soybean intercropping system for sustainable agriculture have not been precisely elucidated yet. Therefore, the present review is tempted to compare the conceptual insights with preceding published researches and proposed the important techniques which could be applied to overcome the devastating effects of lodging. We further explored that, lodging stress management is dependent on multiple approaches such as agronomical, chemical and genetics which could be helpful to reduce the lodging threats in the maize-soybean intercropping system. Nonetheless, many queries needed to explicate the complex phenomenon of lodging. Henceforth, the agronomists, physiologists, molecular actors and breeders require further exploration to fix this challenging problem.

Keywords: agronomical management; intercropping; lignin metabolism; lodging tolerance; resistance genes.

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**Figure 1**
Role of carbohydrates and lignin enzymes in lodging resistance, green arrows represented the increasing trend while red arrows represent the decreasing trend.

**Figure 2**
Shade adaptive response of soybean to low light intensity and relationship between phytohormone (auxin) and lignin.

**Figure 3**
An overview of the most suitable approaches including molecular breeding techniques, agronomical managements and chemical controls to mitigate the lodging stress in maize-soybean intercropping.

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