Sugarcane cultivation practices modulate rhizosphere microbial community composition and structure.

ABSTRACT: Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) represents a crop of great economic importance, remarkably relevant in the food industry and energy supply chains from renewable sources. However, its conventional cultivation involves the intensive use of fertilizers, pesticides, and other agrochemical agents whose detrimental effects on the environment are notorious. Alternative systems, such as organic farming, have been presented as an environmentally friendly way of production. Still, the outcomes of different cropping systems on the microbiota associated with sugarcane-whose role in its health and growth is crucial-remain underexplored. Thus, we studied the rhizospheric microbiota of two adjacent sugarcane fields, which differ in terms of the type of farming system. For this, we used the sequencing of taxon

SUBMITTER: Moneda APC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9649670 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature