Beneficial Effects of Mixing Kentucky Bluegrass With Red Fescue via Plant-Soil Interactions in Black Soil of Northeast China.

ABSTRACT: Continuous monoculture of cool-season turfgrass causes soil degradation, and visual turf quality decline is a major concern in black soil regions of Northeast China. Turf mixtures can enhance turfgrass resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and increase soil microbial diversity. Understanding mechanism by plant-soil interactions and changes of black soil microbial communities in turf mixture is beneficial to restoring the degradation of urbanized black soils and maintaining sustainable development of urban landscape ecology. In this study, based on the previous research of different sowing models, two schemes of turf monoculture and mixture were conducted in field plots during 2016-2018 in a black soil of Heilongjiang province of Northeast China. The mixture turf was established by mixi

SUBMITTER: Xie F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7656059 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature