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Table 1.

Soil fertility of the experimental site in 2016 and 2017.

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Table 2.

Weather information during the cotton growing seasons in 2016 and 2017.

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Fig 1.

Layouts of the cotton monoculture (CM) system (A), the cotton/wheat intercropping (CWI) system (B), and the system in which cotton was directly seeded after wheat (CWD) (C).

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Fig 2.

Fraction of light interception in the different planting patterns in 2016 (A) and 2017 (B).

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Fig 3.

Fraction of squares of the different planting patterns at 75 DAS in 2016 and 2017.

Note: A, B, and C represent the cotton monoculture (CM) system, the cotton/wheat intercropping (CWI) system, and the system in which cotton was directly seeded after wheat (CWD), respectively, in 2016; D, E, and F represent the cotton monoculture (CM) system, the cotton/wheat intercropping (CWI) system, and the system in which cotton was directly seeded after wheat (CWD), respectively, 2017.

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Fig 4.

Fraction of bolls of the different planting patterns at 100 DAS in 2016 and 2017.

Note: A, B, and C represent the cotton monoculture (CM) system, the cotton/wheat intercropping (CWI) system, and the system in which cotton was directly seeded after wheat (CWD), respectively, in 2016; D, E, and F represent the cotton monoculture (CM) system, the cotton/wheat intercropping (CWI) system, and the system in which cotton was directly seeded after wheat (CWD), respectively, in 2017.

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Fig 5.

Shedding rate by node in the different planting patterns at 100 DAS in 2016 and 2017.

Note: A, B, and C represent the cotton monoculture (CM) system, the cotton/wheat intercropping (CWI) system, and the system in which cotton was directly seeded after wheat (CWD), respectively, in 2016; D, E, and F represent the cotton monoculture (CM) system, the cotton/wheat intercropping (CWI) system, and the system in which cotton was directly seeded after wheat (CWD), respectively, in 2017.

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Fig 6.

The LAI in terms of DAS of the different planting patterns in 2016 and 2017.

Note: The error bars represent the standard deviations (STDEVs) (n = 3).

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Fig 7.

Sigmoidal fit of biomass accumulation and instantaneous biomass production rate for the different planting patterns in 2016 and 2017.

Note: A, B and C represent the results of 2016; D, E, and F represent the results of 2017.

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Table 3.

Yield and yield components of different planting systems in 2016 and 2017.

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