The traditional cotton transplanting technique was adopted as an intercropped planting system to improve comprehensive harvest gains in limited acreage fields. However, this method was not suitable for current cotton production because of self-evident production barriers such as intensive labor requirement and overuse of nitrogen fertilizers. The new cotton planting system(field-seeding after barley harvest) without transplanting is more economical in terms of labor input, and therefore more convenient for ...
*Founded by the Jiangsu Province Three-new Agriculture Innovation Project(SXGC[2014]299),the Science and Technology Support Programof Jiangsu Province(BE2014389)and the National Key Technology R&D Program of China(2014BAD11B02)**Corresponding author,E-mai