Fungal Communities in Rhizosphere Soil under Conservation Tillage Shift in Response to Plant Growth.

ABSTRACT: Conservation tillage is an extensively used agricultural practice in northern China that alters soil texture and nutrient conditions, causing changes in the soil microbial community. However, how conservation tillage affects rhizosphere and bulk soil fungal communities during plant growth remains unclear. The present study investigated the effect of long-term (6 years) conservation (chisel plow, zero) and conventional (plow) tillage during wheat growth on the rhizosphere fungal community, using high-throughput sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) gene and quantitative PCR. During tillering, fungal alpha diversity in both rhizosphere and bulk soil were significantly higher under zero tillage compared to other methods. Although tillage had no significant effect during the flow

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5504275 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature