Soil microbial communities are sensitive to differences in fertilization intensity in organic and conventional farming systems.

ABSTRACT: Intensive agriculture has increased global food production, but also impaired ecosystem services and soil biodiversity. Organic fertilization, essential to organic and integrated farming, can provide numerous benefits for soil quality but also compromise the environment by polluting soils and producing greenhouse gases through animal husbandry. The need for reduced stocking density is inevitably accompanied by lower FYM inputs, but little research is available on the impact of these effects on the soil microbiome. We collected soil samples from winter wheat plots of a 42-year-old long-term trial comparing different farming systems receiving farmyard manure at two intensities and measured soil quality parameters and microbial community diversity through DNA metabarcoding. High-input fertili

SUBMITTER: Lori M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10236208 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature