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This study aimed to assess the beneficial effect of the legume-cereal intercropping system in enhancing soil phosphorus (P)
availability for plant growth and grain yield in calcareous P-deficient soils of northern Algeria. To address this question,
field experiments, using common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. El Djadida) and maize (Zea mays L. cv. Filou), either in
pure stand or intercropping, were compared in two experimental sites; S1 (P-deficient) and S2 (P-sufficient) during two
growing seasons (2011 and 2012).Growth, nodulation and grain yield were tested and correlated with the P availability in
the rhizosphere soil. The results showed that P availability increased in the rhizosphere of both species, especially within the
intercropping system under S1 P-deficient conditions. This increase was associated with high efficiency in use of the rhizobial
symbiosis (EURS), high rate of N2fixation and plant growth. Moreover, the rhizosphere P-availability and nodule biomass
were positively correlated for intercropped common bean grown in S1 during 2011 and 2012. The increase in P availability
moderately improved biomass and grain yield when both species were intercropped, P uptake was enhanced intercropped
maize only. It is concluded that,common bean-maize intercropping showed a positive interaction by which common bean
increased P uptake, plant biomass and grain yield for intercropped maize by improving the efficiency in use of the rhizobial
symbiosis in calcareous P-deficient soils.