Switching between monocot and dicot crops in rotation schemes of Argentinean productive fields results in an increment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi diversity

Despite the importance of mycorrhizal symbiosis, we understand little how different soil managements affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) communities. Crop rotation is recommended in sustainable agriculture because of its benefits in soil fertility improvement and positive effect decreasing soil borne diseases incidence and pest abundance. Amplicon sequencing of LSU and SSU rRNA gene fragments was used to analyse AMF diversity in fields from one of the most productive regions in Argentina, which varied in the main class of the plant component included in the crop rotation scheme. The samples encompassed different agricultural settings; one involving only monocot plants in the crop rotation schemes, one including a dicot crop, and the other an alternation and/or a combination of monocot and dicot plant components. We found lower richness and diversity in soils under monocot succession than in a dicot/monocot rotation or consociation. We observed that agricultural management had an influence on beta diversity patterns. Principal coordinate analysis showed that communities from the dicot/monocot rotation or consociation samples clustered together and separated from the monocots samples. These findings suggested that the increment of soil AMF diversity is more dependent on the alternation between monocot and dicot crops than other factors related to the farming systems.

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Main Authors: Albarracín Orio, Andrea Georgina, Brücher, Elsa, Ducasse, Daniel Adrian
Format: info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: 2016-02
Subjects:Cultivos, Rotación de Cultivos, Micorrizas Arbusculares, Monocotiledóneas, Dicotiledoneas, Campo, Productividad, Crops, Crop Rotation, Arbuscular Mycorrhiza, Monocotyledons, Dicotyledons, Fields, Productivity, Argentina,
Online Access:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929139315300974
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/2286
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.10.004
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