Variations in the structure and function of the soil fungal communities in the traditional cropping systems from Madeira Island.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural soils are responsible for ecological functions and services that include primary production of food, fiber and fuel, nutrient cycling, carbon cycling and storage, water infiltration and purification, among others. Fungi are important drivers of most of those ecosystem services. Given the importance of fungi in agricultural soils, in this study, we aimed to characterize and analyse the changes of the soil fungal communities of three cropping systems from Madeira Island, where family farming is predominant, and investigate the response of fungi and its functional groups to soil physicochemical properties. To achieve that, we sequenced amplicons targeting the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) of the rRNA region, to analyse soil samples from 18 agrosystems: 6 vineyards (V), 6 b

SUBMITTER: Oliveira MCO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11473422 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature