Cover Crops for Sustainable Cropping Systems: A Review

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(12), P. 2076 - 2076

Published: Dec. 3, 2022

Cover cropping is a promising and sustainable agronomic practice to ameliorate soil health crop performances in agro-ecosystems. Indeed, cover crops (CCs) may regulate several ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, fertility, moderation of extreme meteorological events, pollination, climate water regulation; addition, CCs are also used forage have considerable effects on plant biodiversity. However, achieve the desired agro-ecosystems, should be carefully adopted by considering specie choice, period cultivation, termination method based site, farm, or purpose-specific. The main objective this manuscript analyze modern agriculture environmental how can support systems global food security. In it focuses incorporation into conventional help diversification assist mitigating systems. Finally, review thoroughly investigates potential sustainability, which an important source information for production

Language: Английский

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Nematodes as suppressors and facilitators of plant performance

New Phytologist, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 238(6), P. 2305 - 2312

Published: April 3, 2023

Summary Plant–nematode interactions are mainly considered from the negative aspect with a focus on plant‐parasitic nematodes (PPNs), which is justified considering agronomic losses caused by PPNs. Despite fact that PPNs outnumbered nonparasitic free‐living (FLNs), functional importance of FLNs, especially regard to plant performance, remains largely unknown. Here, we provide comprehensive overview and most recent insights into soil showing direct indirect links both FLNs performance. We emphasize knowledge gaps potential as important players in driving performance such stimulating resistance pests via improving disease suppressive activity rhizobiome. Together, present holistic view positive contributors accentuating but underexplored role FLNs.

Language: Английский

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Enhanced productivity of maize through intercropping is associated with community composition, core species, and network complexity of abundant microbiota in rhizosphere soil

Geoderma, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 442, P. 116786 - 116786

Published: Jan. 19, 2024

High crop diversity can potentially enhance farmland productivity and ecosystem services, through direct or indirect effects, particularly belowground. Intercropping is a powerful technique to increase belowground biodiversity. It has attracted long-term global attention. However, little known about the impacts of microbiota on intercropping-driven increases in productivity. This study was an 8-year experiment involving five maize planting patterns, which aimed distinguish contributions rare abundant (bacteria, fungi, eukaryotes) rhizosphere soil support production. The results indicated that richness phylogenetic microbial taxa were significantly higher than those across all samples. Maize soybean intercropping increased rather taxa. Plant growth stages altered community composition both assembly communities mainly driven by deterministic processes and, particular, contributed gain. changes associated with many core species belonging bacterial Actinomycetales Rhodocyclaceae, fungal Tausonia Curvularia, eukaryotic Leptophyryidae Ochromonadaceae. network complexity fungi also exerted notable effects Overall, these findings underscored importance stability systems. suggests potential improve production regulating intensive agroecosystems.

Language: Английский

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Linking nematodes and ecosystem function: a trait-based framework

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 39(7), P. 644 - 653

Published: Feb. 28, 2024

Language: Английский

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Beyond microbes: Are fauna the next frontier in soil biogeochemical models?

Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Journal Year: 2016, Volume and Issue: 102, P. 40 - 44

Published: Sept. 9, 2016

Language: Английский

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