Soil bacterial communities are influenced by soil chemical characteristics and dispersal limitation in commercial strawberry production systems.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial communities play multiple functional roles in soil that have positive and negative feedbacks on plant health. However, relatively few studies have focused on the ecology of soil bacterial communities in commercial strawberry production systems. The objective of this study was to determine if ecological processes influencing soil bacterial communities are consistent among commercial strawberry production locations and plots within the same geographic region. Soil samples were collected using a spatially explicit design from three plots in two commercial strawberry production locations in the Salinas Valley region of California. Soil carbon, nitrogen, and pH were measured for each of the 72 soil samples and bacterial communities were characterized using 16 S rRNA sequencing. Multiv

SUBMITTER: LeBlanc N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10168042 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature