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Edamame Companion Planting
Glycine max
Legume (Fabaceae) -- warm season
1 beneficial companion
0 antagonistic relationships
Good Companions for Edamame
Sweet CornZea mays
BeneficialNutrient SharingDocumented
Edamame (Glycine max) fixes substantial nitrogen via Bradyrhizobium symbiosis that benefits adjacent corn. Soybean intercropping with corn is one of the most extensively studied intercropping systems globally.
Edamame requires inoculation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum if not previously grown in the soil.
Sources
- Soybean-corn intercropping: nitrogen dynamics and yield advantages -- Agronomy Journal (2006)
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