Community structure of soil fungi in a novel perennial crop monoculture, annual agriculture, and native prairie reconstruction.

ABSTRACT: The use of perennial crop species in agricultural systems may increase ecosystem services and sustainability. Because soil microbial communities play a major role in many processes on which ecosystem services and sustainability depend, characterization of soil community structure in novel perennial crop systems is necessary to understand potential shifts in function and crop responses. Here, we characterized soil fungal community composition at two depths (0-10 and 10-30 cm) in replicated, long-term plots containing one of three different cropping systems: a tilled three-crop rotation of annual crops, a novel perennial crop monoculture (Intermediate wheatgrass, which produces the grain Kernza®), and a native prairie reconstruction. The overall fungal community was similar under the perenni

SUBMITTER: McKenna TP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6991957 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature