Soil Microbial Community Responses to Different Management Strategies in Almond Crop.

ABSTRACT: A comparative study of organic and conventional farming systems was conducted in almond orchards to determine the effect of management practices on their fungal and bacterial communities. Soils from two orchards under organic (OM) and conventional (CM), and nearby nonmanaged (NM) soil were analyzed and compared. Several biochemical and biological parameters were measured (soil pH, electrical conductivity, total nitrogen, organic material, total phosphorous, total DNA, and fungal and bacterial DNA copies). Massive parallel sequencing of regions from fungal ITS rRNA and bacterial 16 S genes was carried out to characterize their diversity in the soil. We report a larger abundance of bacteria and fungi in soils under OM, with a more balanced fungi:bacteria ratio, compared to bacteria-skewed pr

SUBMITTER: Camacho-Sanchez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9864756 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature