Impact of Olive Saplings and Organic Amendments on Soil Microbial Communities and Effects of Mineral Fertilization.

ABSTRACT: Plant communities and fertilization may have an impact on soil microbiome. Most commercial olive trees are minerally fertilized, while this practice is being replaced by the use of organic amendments. Organic amendments can both fertilize and promote plant growth-promoting organisms. Our aims were (i) to describe the changes in soil bacterial and fungal communities induced by the presence of young olive trees and their interaction with organic amendments and (ii) to compare the effects of mineral and organic fertilization. We set up two parallel experiments in pots using a previously homogenized soil collected from a commercial olive orchard: in the first one, we grew olive saplings in unamended and organically amended soils with two distinct composts and compared these two soils incubated

SUBMITTER: Llimos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8203829 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature