Plant and soil responses to tillage practices change arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi populations during crop growth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tillage practices can substantially affect soil properties depending on crop stage. The interaction between tillage and crop growth on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) communities remains unclear. We investigated the interactions between four tillage treatments (CT: conventional tillage, RT: reduced tillage, NT: no tillage with mulch, and SS: subsoiling with mulch), maintained for 25 years, and two wheat growth stages (elongation stage and grain filling stage) on AMF diversity and community composition.

Results

The AMF community composition strongly changed during wheat growth, mainly because of changes in the relative abundance of dominant genera Claroideoglomus, Funneliformi, Rhizophagu, Entrophospora, and Glomus. Co-occurren

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11034428 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature