Effects of Agricultural Management on Rhizosphere Microbial Structure and Function in Processing Tomato Plants.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural management practices affect bulk soil microbial communities and the functions they carry out, but it remains unclear how these effects extend to the rhizosphere in different agroecosystem contexts. Given close linkages between rhizosphere processes and plant nutrition and productivity, understanding how management practices impact this critical zone is of great importance to optimize plant-soil interactions for agricultural sustainability. A comparison of six paired conventional-organic processing tomato farms was conducted to investigate relationships between management, soil physicochemical parameters, and rhizosphere microbial community composition and functions. Organically managed fields were higher in soil total N and NO₃-N, total and labile C, plant Ca, S, an

SUBMITTER: Schmidt JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677846 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature