Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping walnut with tea significantly boosted organic matter content and sucrase activity relative to monocropping.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensis L.
Camellia sinensise0 - Treatment
- intercropped walnut and teae1
- Outcome
- organic matter (OM) content, and sucrase activitye1
- Direction
- boostede1
- Comparator
- monocropping forestse1
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Verbatim
e0“when walnut ( Juglans spp.) was intercropped with tea ( Camellia sinensis L.) plants in a forest”
e1“The soil available nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP), available potassium (AK), organic matter (OM) content, and sucrase activity were significantly boosted in intercropped walnut and tea than in monocropping forests”
Title
Intercropping Walnut and Tea: Effects on Soil Nutrients, Enzyme Activity, and Microbial Communities
Yong-Chao Bai; Bao-Xin Li; Chun-Yong Xu; et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 2022. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.852342
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Intercropping walnut with tea significantly boosted soil available N, P and K relative to monocropping.
- Intervention effect The interaction between crops increased bacterial and fungal diversity compared with monoculture tea forests.
- Intervention effect Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes were found in greater abundance under intercropping than in monoculture walnut and tea forest plantations.
- Intervention effect Chlamydiae, Rozellomycota and Zoopagomycota were found in greater abundance under intercropping than in monoculture walnut and tea forest plantations.
- Intervention effect The walnut–tea intercropping system markedly impacted the abundance of several bacterial and fungal OTUs; the direction is not stated.
- Mechanism Intercropping walnut with tea increased host fitness and growth, the authors suggest, by positively influencing soil microbial populations.