Abstract:The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of uniconazole on plant architecture and the yield of yield potential in maize-soybean relay strip intercropping (M-S) system is based on maize plant architecture. M-S system. Leaves of Chuandan 418 were sprayed with uniconazole on maize when the plants were at 8-(A1),10-(A2),12-(A3) and 14-leaf exhibition stages (A4).Plants at the same stages were sprayed with distilled water as control (CK). M-S morphological trait and the yield of Chuandan 418 were determined. Plants sprayed with uniconazole showed significant effects on maize plant architecture under M-S system, and decreased contents of the maize height, ear height, ear upper height and angle of the ear compared with CK, whereas increased in the stem diameter sprayed with A1 and A3. Here the effects were extremely significant, when the top transmittance and yields in intercropping soybean of uniconazole-treated plants in A1 with a highest value (49.97% and 2 093.58 kg·hm-2) were 60.30% and 38.68% higher than their respective values of CK, respectively. With the spraying time delayed, the height of soybean showed a rising trend, but a decreased trend towards the stem diameter and leaf area. Firstly, the yield of maize and other groups increased and later decreased. They reached the highest yield in A2, which were higher than that of the CK by 5.91% and 11.21%, respectively. Path analysis and correlation analysis showed that the negative correlation coefficient between maize of ear height, ear upper height, ear leaf area, ear host leaf area and transmittance were highly significant(P<0.01). Ear upper height of corn is an important factor which influences the upper high transmittance. Stem diameter and leaf area of intercropping soybean were positively correlated with transmittance. For a comprehensive performance of group architecture and yield, adjusting plant architecture by spraying uniconazole on the maize leaf extension10 can increase yield.