Soil Chemistry and Soil History Significantly Structure Oomycete Communities in Brassicaceae Crop Rotations.

ABSTRACT: Oomycetes are critically important in soil microbial communities, especially for agriculture, where they are responsible for major declines in yields. Unfortunately, oomycetes are vastly understudied compared to bacteria and fungi. As such, our understanding of how oomycete biodiversity and community structure vary through time in the soil remains poor. Soil history established by previous crops is one factor known to structure other soil microbes, but this has not been investigated for its influence on oomycetes. In this study, we established three different soil histories in field trials; the following year, these plots were planted with five different Brassicaceae crops. We hypothesized that the previously established soil histories would structure different oomycete communities,

SUBMITTER: Blakney AJC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9888183 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature