Subsoil application of compost improved sugarcane yield through enhanced supply and cycling of soil labile organic carbon and nitrogen in an acidic soil at tropical Australia

Biofertilizers as Strategies to Improve Photosynthetic Apparatus, Growth, and Drought Stress Tolerance in the Date Palm

“…The results obtained showed that biological treatments had an important effect on N and P in soil. However, a high amount of N and P in the rhizosphere soil of plants amended with compost and inoculated with AMF and PGPR could be due to a direct absorption via compost or by the fact that AMF and PGPR efficiently and directly take up from the soil to the plant nutrients such as N and P (Grobelak et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2018). In order to tolerate drought stress, plant adaptation is associated with high concentration of solutes such as soluble sugars and protein to regulate the osmotic potential of cells which, in turn, induce an improvement in water absorption under unfavorable condition (Zhang et al, 2010;Liao et al, 2019).…”

“…The use of local composts represents an eco-friendly alternative for plant growth, mineral nutrition, soil organic matter content, and soil properties such as water retention capacity and soil suppressiveness (Shen et al, 2013;Luciens et al, 2014;Mehta et al, 2014;Kwey et al, 2015;Ning et al, 2017). Previous studies have suggested that compost application in soil increased the supply of organic carbon and N for microbial communities and improved soil health and plant yield (Shen et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2018). Further, compost application triggers plant resistance to different environmental stresses (Tartoura et al, 2014;Ortuño et al, 2018) by increasing the photosynthetic activity (Abd El-Mageed et al, 2019;Khosravi Shakib et al, 2019).…”

Changes on Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities in Long-Term Organic Cropping Systems

“…Similar results were observed by Yang et al [60] and Zhang et al [61] who found a link between the bacterial community and soil chemical properties. Organic carbon is considered necessary to alter microbial community regardless other factors [62] and is well known that compost enhance carbon and nitrogen in soils for microbial communities [63]. Also, Vera et al [64] observed that the B content in the soil was a determinant property explaining changes in the bacterial community in an agricultural soil.…”

Soil fertility and bacterial community composition in a semiarid Mediterranean agricultural soil under long‐term tillage management

“…CSR (cumulated soil respiration) and BSR (basal soil respiration) are defined as microbial respiration rate during and after 25 days of incubation, respectively. Metabolic quotient (qCO 2 ), indicating the rate of CO 2 release per unit of microbial biomass, was expressed as the ratio of BSR to MBC (Liu et al., 2018). Mineralization quotient (qM), representing the efficiency of microflora to metabolize SOC, was computed from CSR per unit SOC (Mganga, Razavi, & Kuzyakov, 2016).…”