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Niche breadth was significantly expanded in faba bean mixtures.
- Taxon
- faba bean
Vicia fabae0 - Treatment
- faba bean mixturese0
- Outcome
- Niche breadthe0
- Direction
- significantly expandede0
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Title
Huilin Yan; Xin Jin; Panda Ye; et al. Agronomy 2025. doi:10.3390/agronomy15092236
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Faba bean fresh weight was significantly reduced under mixtures compared with monoculture, 6.2 versus 8.8 kg/m2.
- Intervention effect Oat biomass increased under mixtures, 3.2 versus 2.8 kg m−2.
- Intervention effect Available phosphorus and available potassium significantly decreased in the rhizosphere of both mixtures.
- Intervention effect Alkali-hydrolyzable nitrogen significantly increased under mixtures, particularly in oat.
- Intervention effect Mixtures significantly enhanced bacterial richness, evenness and Shannon diversity in faba bean.
- Intervention effect Mixtures had no significant effect on oat diversity metrics.
- Observation NMDS showed distinct shifts in bacterial community structures under mixtures.
- Intervention effect Acidobacteriota and Vicinamibacteraceae were enriched in faba bean mixtures.
- Intervention effect Actinobacteriota decreased in both forages under mixtures.
- Observation Over 40% of the bacterial community in mixed roots originated from the partner monoculture.
- Intervention effect Microbial community stability tended to decline under mixtures, but the difference was not significant.
- Intervention effect Mixtures slightly shifted community assembly toward deterministic processes, which otherwise remained predominantly stochastic.
- Association Soil physicochemical properties had a significant negative effect on bacterial diversity in faba bean mixtures.
- Association Bacterial diversity had a significant negative effect on faba bean fresh weight.
- Mechanism Bacterial diversity may mediate the relationship between soil properties and plant fresh weight.
- Mechanism Mixture-induced changes in soil nutrients and microbial community characteristics collaboratively mediate plant performance.