{"database":"ENA","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Genomics"],"center_name":["Wageningen University"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJNA1051855"],"long_description":["Organic soil amendments may influence belowground plant-associated communities as well as aboveground communities. Insect exuviae are a major organic residual stream from insect production for food and feed and application as soil amendment affects the rhizobacterial community and defence responses of plants. Here we studied whether amending two soil types with these insect exuviae affected the rhizobacterial community and aboveground arthropod community on Brassica oleracea plants over the course of a full growing season in a field setting.We studied Brassica oleracea plants sown in either field soil or potting soil amended with exuviae originating from three insect species, black soldier fly Hermetia illucens, house cricket Acheta domesticus, and yellow mealworm Tenebrio molitor, or with dried cow manure or purified chitin, that were transplanted to the field after four weeks. During 16 weeks in the field, every week the arthropod community was monitored and every four weeks a subset of plants was harvested to analyse the rhizosphere bacterial community and shoot dry weight of the plants.Amendment of field soil with insect exuviae affected rhizobacterial community composition in both soil types. Also the diversity of aboveground arthropod communities on these plants was affected by soil amendment with insect exuviae. Soil amendment differentially affected specific taxa both aboveground and belowground, depending on the soil type. Plants growing in exuviae-amended soil had a similar aboveground biomass as plants growing in soil treated with dried cow manure.Our study shows that the rhizobacterial and arthropod communities change upon soil amendment with insect exuviae. This underlines the importance of belowground processes, such as the decomposition of insect exuviae by indigenous soil microbes, for the assembly of plant-associated communities belowground as well as aboveground. This knowledge presents opportunities for utilising insect exuviae in agricultural systems, by valorising residual streams from the production of insects for food and feed."],"repository":["ENA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"","description":"Rhizobacterial composition on Brussel sprouts plants upon soil amendment with insect exuviae","dates":{"last_updated":"2024-06-22","first_public":"2024-06-22"},"accession":"PRJNA1051855","cross_references":{}}