Impact of wheat / faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalities
Cropping systems based on carefully designed species mixtures reveal many potential advantages in terms of enhancing crop productivity, reducing pest and diseases and enhacing ecological serices. Associating cereals and legume production either through intercropping or rotations might be a relevant...
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| author | Sanâa Wahbi Yves Prin Jean Thioulouse Hervé Sanguin Ezékiel Baudoin Tasnime Maghraoui Khalid Oufdou Christine Le Roux Antoine Galiana Mohamed Hafidi Robin Duponnois |
| author_facet | Sanâa Wahbi Yves Prin Jean Thioulouse Hervé Sanguin Ezékiel Baudoin Tasnime Maghraoui Khalid Oufdou Christine Le Roux Antoine Galiana Mohamed Hafidi Robin Duponnois |
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| description | Cropping systems based on carefully designed species mixtures reveal many potential advantages in terms of enhancing crop productivity, reducing pest and diseases and enhacing ecological serices. Associating cereals and legume production either through intercropping or rotations might be a relevant strategy of producing both type of culture, while benefiting from combined nitrogen fixed by the legume through its symbiotic association with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and from a better use of P and water through mycorrhizal associations. These practices also participate to the diversification of agricultural productions, enabling to secure the regularity of income returns across the seasonal and climatic uncertainties. In this context, we designed a field experiment aiming to estimate the two years impact of these practices on wheat yield and on soil microbial activities as estimated through Substrate Induced Respiration (SIR) method and mycorrhizal soil infectivity (MSI) measurement. It is expected that understanding soil microbial functionalities in response to these agricultural practices might allows to target the best type of combination, in regard to crop productivity. We found that the tested cropping systems largely impacted soil microbial functionalities and mycorrhizal soil infectivity. Intercropping gave better results in terms of crop productivity than the rotation practice after 2 cropping seasons. Benefits resulting from intercrop should be highly linked with changes recorded on soil microbial functionalities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3c2e309fffb6453eba80a6001c6d94a82022-12-22T03:30:21ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2016-09-01710.3389/fpls.2016.01364208126Impact of wheat / faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalitiesSanâa Wahbi0Yves Prin1Jean Thioulouse2Hervé Sanguin3Ezékiel Baudoin4Tasnime Maghraoui5Khalid Oufdou6Christine Le Roux7Antoine Galiana8Mohamed Hafidi9Robin Duponnois10Institut de recherche pour le developpementCIRADUniversité Lyon 1, CNRSCIRADInstitut de recherche pour le developpementFaculté des Sciences Semlalia. Université Cadi AyyadFaculté des Sciences Semlalia. Université Cadi AyyadCIRADCIRADFaculté des Sciences Semlalia. Université Cadi AyyadInstitut de recherche pour le developpementCropping systems based on carefully designed species mixtures reveal many potential advantages in terms of enhancing crop productivity, reducing pest and diseases and enhacing ecological serices. Associating cereals and legume production either through intercropping or rotations might be a relevant strategy of producing both type of culture, while benefiting from combined nitrogen fixed by the legume through its symbiotic association with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and from a better use of P and water through mycorrhizal associations. These practices also participate to the diversification of agricultural productions, enabling to secure the regularity of income returns across the seasonal and climatic uncertainties. In this context, we designed a field experiment aiming to estimate the two years impact of these practices on wheat yield and on soil microbial activities as estimated through Substrate Induced Respiration (SIR) method and mycorrhizal soil infectivity (MSI) measurement. It is expected that understanding soil microbial functionalities in response to these agricultural practices might allows to target the best type of combination, in regard to crop productivity. We found that the tested cropping systems largely impacted soil microbial functionalities and mycorrhizal soil infectivity. Intercropping gave better results in terms of crop productivity than the rotation practice after 2 cropping seasons. Benefits resulting from intercrop should be highly linked with changes recorded on soil microbial functionalities.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01364/fullMediterranean Regionnutrient uptake efficiencyarbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)cropping systemsmicrobial soil functions |
| spellingShingle | Sanâa Wahbi Yves Prin Jean Thioulouse Hervé Sanguin Ezékiel Baudoin Tasnime Maghraoui Khalid Oufdou Christine Le Roux Antoine Galiana Mohamed Hafidi Robin Duponnois Impact of wheat / faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalities Frontiers in Plant Science Mediterranean Region nutrient uptake efficiency arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) cropping systems microbial soil functions |
| title | Impact of wheat / faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalities |
| title_full | Impact of wheat / faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalities |
| title_fullStr | Impact of wheat / faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of wheat / faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalities |
| title_short | Impact of wheat / faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalities |
| title_sort | impact of wheat faba bean mixed cropping or rotation systems on soil microbial functionalities |
| topic | Mediterranean Region nutrient uptake efficiency arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) cropping systems microbial soil functions |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01364/full |
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