Characterising the effect of crop species and fertilisation treatment on root fungal communities.

ABSTRACT: Information about the root mycobiome may improve the overall quality of the plants and contribute to a valuable strategy to enhance sustainable agriculture. Therefore, we assessed differences in fungal community diversity and composition in the roots of potato, wheat and barley grown under mineral nitrogen fertilisation at five rates, with and without farmyard manure amendment. The same factorial combination of treatments has been used since 1989. Species richness and diversity, as well as community composition, of different fungal guilds were characterised using Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the ITS2 region. Crop species was the main factor determining overall fungal richness and diversity, with wheat showing the highest, and potato the lowest, richness and diversity. Pathogen diversity in

SUBMITTER: Soonvald L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7603395 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature