Soil-specific limitations for access and analysis of soil microbial communities by metagenomics

N Lombard, E Prestat, JD van Elsas… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomics approaches represent an important way to acquire information on the
microbial communities present in complex environments like soil. However, to what extent …

A coevolutionary framework for managing disease-suppressive soils

LL Kinkel, MG Bakker… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
This review explores a coevolutionary framework for the study and management of disease-
suppressive soil microbial communities. Because antagonistic microbial interactions are …

[HTML][HTML] Soil suppressiveness to Pythium ultimum in ten European long-term field experiments and its relation with soil parameters

G Bongiorno, J Postma, EK Bünemann… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil suppressiveness to pathogens is defined as the capacity of soil to regulate soil-borne
pathogens. It can be managed by agricultural practices, but the effects reported so far …

Long-Term Organic Farming Manipulated Rhizospheric Microbiome and Bacillus Antagonism Against Pepper Blight (Phytophthora capsici)

H Li, X Cai, J Gong, T Xu, G Ding, J Li - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Soil-borne diseases are often less severe in organic farms, possibly because of the
recruitment of beneficial microorganisms by crops. Here, the suppressiveness of organic …

Constraining the conditions conducive to dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in temperate arable soils

CS Schmidt, DJ Richardson, EM Baggs - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
Here we offer the first assessment of conditions conducive to dissimilatory nitrate reduction
to ammonium (DNRA) in temperate arable soils, through an examination of the potential for …

[PDF][PDF] Agroforestry: essential for sustainable and climate-smart land use

RG Muschler - Tropical forestry handbook, 2016 - researchgate.net
Over the past four decades, a solid body of research has revealed the potential of
agroforestry for increasing or maintaining system productivity while protecting natural …

Plant–soil feedback effects on growth, defense and susceptibility to a soil-borne disease in a cut flower crop: species and functional group effects

HK Ma, A Pineda, AWG Van der Wurff… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Plants can influence the soil they grow in, and via these changes in the soil they can
positively or negatively influence other plants that grow later in this soil, a phenomenon …

[HTML][HTML] Steering root microbiomes of a commercial horticultural crop with plant-soil feedbacks

H Ma, A Pineda, SE Hannula, AM Kielak… - Applied Soil …, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) can influence plant performance in natural and agricultural
systems but how PSF principles can be applied in agriculture is not well-studied. In a two …

Quantifying the effects of soil temperature, moisture and sterilization on elemental mercury formation in boreal soils

R Pannu, SD Siciliano, NJ O'Driscoll - Environmental Pollution, 2014 - Elsevier
Soils are a source of elemental mercury (Hg (0)) to the atmosphere, however the effects of
soil temperature and moisture on Hg (0) formation is not well defined. This research …

Impact of brassicaceous seed meals on the composition of the soil fungal community and the incidence of Fusarium wilt on chili pepper

Y Ma, T Gentry, P Hu, E Pierson, M Gu, S Yin - Applied Soil Ecology, 2015 - Elsevier
Although brassicaceous seed meals (BSMs) have been evaluated for their ability to control
various soil-borne diseases, establishing the relationship between disease severity and the …