Impact of biochar application to soil on the root-associated bacterial community structure of fully developed greenhouse pepper plants.

ABSTRACT: Adding biochar to soil has environmental and agricultural potential due to its long-term carbon sequestration capacity and its ability to improve crop productivity. Recent studies have demonstrated that soil-applied biochar promotes the systemic resistance of plants to several prominent foliar pathogens. One potential mechanism for this phenomenon is root-associated microbial elicitors whose presence is somehow augmented in the biochar-amended soils. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of biochar amendment on the root-associated bacterial community composition of mature sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) plants. Molecular fingerprinting (denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism) of 16S rRNA gene fragments showed a clear d

SUBMITTER: Kolton M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3147372 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature