Effects of Dairy Manure-Based Amendments and Soil Texture on Lettuce- and Radish-Associated Microbiota and Resistomes

Effects of Dairy Manure-Based Amendments and Soil Texture on Lettuce- and Radish-Associated Microbiota and Resistomes

ABSTRACT Dairy cattle are routinely treated with antibiotics, and the resulting manure or composted manure is commonly used as a soil amendment for crop production, raising questions regarding the potential for antibiotic resistance to propagate from “farm to fork.” The objective of this study was t...

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Main Authors: Giselle K. P. Guron, Gustavo Arango-Argoty, Liqing Zhang, Amy Pruden, Monica A. Ponder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-06-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
agriculture
antibiotic resistance
compost
manure
resistome
soil
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00239-19

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