Density and Diversity of Microbial Symbionts under Organic and Conventional Agricultural Management.

ABSTRACT: The influence of organic and conventional farming and agroecology on the diversity and functioning of indigenous soil microbial communities was examined using a multifactorial analysis based on an extended minimum data set of classical status and functional tests. Main soil physicochemical properties and selected microbiological indicators, the quantity of heterotrophic or aerobic spore-forming bacteria, basal and substrate-induced respiration, catabolic activity with MicroResp^™, and fluorescein diacetate enzyme activity were characterized. A pot experiment applying the most probable number method was designed with soil dilution series using Pisum sativum L. and Triticum spelta L. to assess the symbiotic infectivity and genetic diversity of key indicator groups of the plant micr

SUBMITTER: Gazdag O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6759338 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature