Relative Abundances of Species or Sequence Variants Can Be Misleading: Soil Fungal Communities as an Example.

ABSTRACT: Plant production systems that are more sustainable than conventional monoculture croplands are the vision of future agriculture. With numerous environmental benefits, agroforestry is among the most promising alternatives. Although soil fungi are key drivers of plant productivity and ecosystem processes, investigations of these microorganisms in temperate agroforestry systems are scarce, leaving our understanding of agricultural systems under agroforestry practice incomplete. Here, we assessed the composition and diversity of the soil fungal community as well as the frequency (relative abundance) of fungal groups in three paired temperate poplar-based alley cropping (agroforestry) and monoculture cropland systems by amplicon sequencing. Analysis of microbiomes using relative abundances of s

SUBMITTER: Beule L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7999432 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature