Resistance and resilience responses of a range of soil eukaryote and bacterial taxa to fungicide application.

ABSTRACT: The application of plant protection products has the potential to significantly affect soil microbial community structure and function. However, the extent to which soil microbial communities from different trophic levels exhibit resistance and resilience to such compounds remains poorly understood. The resistance and resilience responses of a range of microbial communities (bacteria, fungi, archaea, pseudomonads, and nematodes) to different concentrations of the strobilurin fungicide, azoxystrobin were studied. A significant concentration-dependent decrease, and subsequent recovery in soil dehydrogenase activity was recorded, but no significant impact on total microbial biomass was observed. Impacts on specific microbial communities were studied using small subunit (SSU) rRNA terminal res

SUBMITTER: Howell CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4286127 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature