Soil domestication by rice cultivation results in plant-soil feedback through shifts in soil microbiota.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Soils are a key component of agricultural productivity, and soil microbiota determine the availability of many essential plant nutrients. Agricultural domestication of soils, that is, the conversion of previously uncultivated soils to a cultivated state, is frequently accompanied by intensive monoculture, especially in the developing world. However, there is limited understanding of how continuous cultivation alters the structure of prokaryotic soil microbiota after soil domestication, including to what extent crop plants impact soil microbiota composition, and how changes in microbiota composition arising from cultivation affect crop performance.

Results

We show here that continuous monoculture (> 8 growing seasons) of the major food crop rice under flooded condi

SUBMITTER: Edwards J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6814045 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature