{"id":2103,"date":"2025-03-31T14:41:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:41:56","slug":"cultivar-mixtures-increase-stability-and-productivity-over-time-through-asynchrony-and-complementarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2025\/03\/31\/cultivar-mixtures-increase-stability-and-productivity-over-time-through-asynchrony-and-complementarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_2105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2105\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2105\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/03\/499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/03\/499.jpg 1269w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/03\/499-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/03\/499-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/03\/499-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/03\/499-640x376.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Field experiment conducted in the southern suburbs, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, Northwest China. Photocredit: Long Li.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a seven-year field experiment, we found that maize cultivar mixtures increased grain yields and stabilized year-to-year yields over time, which was attributed to increased asynchrony and complementarity among cultivars, differences in functional traits, and plasticity in response to neighbors. These mechanisms provide new insight into how intraspecific diversity increases both natural and agricultural ecosystem functioning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-bibliographic-information__citation\">Su, Y., Zhang, WP., Zhao, JH. <i>et al.<\/i> Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity. <i>Agron. Sustain. Dev.<\/i> <b>45<\/b>, 20 (2025). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-025-01014-5<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a seven-year field experiment, we found that maize cultivar mixtures increased grain yields and stabilized year-to-year yields over time, which was attributed to increased asynchrony and complementarity among cultivars, differences in functional traits, and plasticity in response to neighbors. These mechanisms provide new insight into how intraspecific diversity increases both natural and agricultural ecosystem &#8230; <a title=\"Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2025\/03\/31\/cultivar-mixtures-increase-stability-and-productivity-over-time-through-asynchrony-and-complementarity\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intercropping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}