Crop Rotational Diversity Influences Wheat–Maize Production Through Soil Legacy Effects in the North China Plain

He, Xiaoyun; Es, Harold M. van; Chen, Yuanquan; Wang, Biao; Zhao, Yingxing; Sui, Peng

doi:10.1007/s42106-022-00198-0

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“…This is probably because rhizosphere and bulk soils under crop rotation patterns accumulate nutrients from the agricultural straw decomposition and different crop root secretions. Although agricultural ecological methods, such as crop diversification and crop rotation, can create positive legacy effects that can improve soil conditions, straw returning to the field plus tillage can break the imbalance of nutrients above and below the soil and increase the balance of soil nutrients, making the soil better or healthier, (Somenahally et al, 2018;Jing et al, 2022;Xiao et al, 2022). Rhizosphere and bulk soil alpha diversity were not significantly different but significantly higher than intra-root.…”

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Dynamic changes of soil microorganisms in rotation farmland at the western foot of the Greater Khingan range

Wei

Fang

Zhang

et al. 2023

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

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Crop rotation and other tillage systems can affect soil microbial communities and functions. Few studies have reported the response of soil spatial microbial communities to rotation under drought stress. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to explore the dynamic changes of the soil space microbial community under different drought stress-rotation patterns. In this study, two water treatments were set up, control W1 (mass water content 25%–28%), and drought W2 (mass water content 9%–12%). Four crop rotation patterns were set in each water content, spring wheat continuous (R1), spring wheat-potato (R2), spring wheat-potato-rape (R3) and spring wheat-rape (R4), for a total of eight treatments (W1R1, W1R2, W1R3, W1R4, W2R1, W2R2, W2R3, W2R4). Endosphere, rhizosphere and bulk soil of spring wheat in each treatment were collected, and root space microbial community data were generated. The soil microbial community changed under different treatments and their relationship with soil factors were analyzed using a co-occurrence network, mantel test, and other methods. The results revealed that the alpha diversity of microorganisms in the rhizosphere and bulk soil did not differ significantly, but it was significantly greater than in the endosphere. The bacteria community structure was more stable, fungi alpha-diversity significant changes (p < 0.05), that were more sensitive to the response of various treatments than bacteria. The co-occurrence network between fungal species was stable under rotation patterns (R2, R3, R4), while the community stability was poor under continuous cropping pattern (R1), and interactions were strengthened. Soil organic matter (SOM), microbial biomass carbon (MBC), and pH value were the most important factors dominating the bacteria community structural changed in the endosphere, rhizosphere, and bulk soil. The dominant factor that affected the fungal community structural changed in the endosphere, rhizosphere, and bulk soil was SOM. Therefore, we conclude that soil microbial community changes under the drought stress-rotation patterns are mainly influenced by soil SOM and microbial biomass content.

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Section: Contrasting Determinants Of Bacterial and Fungal Beta Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic changes of soil microorganisms in rotation farmland at the western foot of the Greater Khingan range

Wei

Fang

Zhang

et al. 2023

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

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“…The North China Plain (NCP) is an important grain production base in China, which produces 61% of China's wheat and 45% of China's maize. The local traditional winter wheat‐summer maize cropping system guarantees China's food security, but intensive agricultural production also has several problems, such as massive fertilizer inputs, low soil sustainability and water shortage (Li et al, 2018; Liang et al, 2019; Xiao et al, 2022). These problems hinder the sustainable development of agriculture in the NCP.…”

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Taxonomic and functional diversity of the soil microbiome recruited from alternative crops in a rotation system

Liu,

Li,

Chen

et al. 2023

European J Soil Science

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Intensive cropping is considered to contribute to negative effects both on soil physiochemical properties and on long‐term grain yield, which can be alleviated by appropriate crop rotations. The soil microbial community can vary with different crop rotations, which in turn affect soil quality and grain yield. Therefore, it is of great significance to elucidate the response of the soil microbial community to crop rotation. In this study, the structural and functional changes of microbial community in different crop rotations were analyzed using high‐throughput sequencing and metagenomics analysis in a field experiment. The continuous winter wheat‐summer maize cropping system was the control, and three crop rotations were established in October 2016 as follows: (1) spring peanut→winter wheat‐summer maize, (2) winter wheat‐summer peanut→winter wheat‐summer maize and (3) spring sweet potato→winter wheat‐summer maize. Soil samples were collected in September 2021 for soil microbial assessment. The results showed that the relative abundance of Actinobacteriota in the soil of spring sweet potato→winter wheat‐summer maize was significantly higher (15.2%) than that in the control. The relative abundance of Ascomycota was significantly higher (19.8%–23.2%) in the soil following crop rotation compared with the control. Compared with the control, spring peanut→winter wheat‐summer maize enriched energy metabolism genes, and spring sweet potato→winter wheat‐summer maize reduced the genes related to plant–pathogen interaction. Compared with the control, crop rotation significantly decreased the relative abundance of the inorganic phosphorus solubilization gene (gcd) and the phosphorus transport gene (upgE) and increased the abundance of organic phosphorus mineralization genes (phoA and phyA). Based on these results, we concluded that the composition of the soil microbial community and functional genes can be altered by crop rotation, and spring peanut→winter wheat‐summer maize and spring sweet potato→winter wheat‐summer maize had more significant effects. This study provided a reference for the selection of crop rotations in the North China Plain based on the soil microbial community and its function.

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Long-term effects of wheat continuous cropping vs wheat in crop rotation on carbon content and mineralisation, aggregate stability, biological activity, and crop yield

Holatko,

Brtnicky,

Baltazar

et al. 2024

European Journal of Agronomy

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Crop Rotational Diversity Influences Wheat–Maize Production Through Soil Legacy Effects in the North China Plain

Cited by 5 publications

References 83 publications

Dynamic changes of soil microorganisms in rotation farmland at the western foot of the Greater Khingan range

Dynamic changes of soil microorganisms in rotation farmland at the western foot of the Greater Khingan range

Taxonomic and functional diversity of the soil microbiome recruited from alternative crops in a rotation system

Long-term effects of wheat continuous cropping vs wheat in crop rotation on carbon content and mineralisation, aggregate stability, biological activity, and crop yield

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