Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping and rhizosphere soil networks were more complex and interconnected.
- Taxon
- peanut/cotton
Gossypium hirsutum
Arachis hypogaeat0 - Outcome
- communitiese0
- Direction
- more complex and interconnectede0
- Setting
- rhizosphere soilse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“peanut/cotton”
e0“more complex and interconnected communities in intercropping and rhizosphere soils”
Title
Shijie Zhang; Yingchun Han; Guoping Wang; et al. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jia.2025.05.005
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Association Rhizosphere soils had higher biological nitrogen fixation potentials than bulk soils.
- Intervention effect Intercropping increased nitrogen fixation rate relative to monoculture.
- Intervention effect Intercropping increased nitrogenase activity relative to monoculture.
- Intervention effect Intercropping increased nifH gene abundance relative to monoculture.
- Observation Diazotrophic community composition and diversity differed significantly.
- Association Proteobacteria excluding Alphaproteobacteria were enriched in intercropping and rhizosphere soils.
- Observation Cyanobacteria and Firmicutes were less abundant.
- Observation Heterogeneous selection dominated rhizosphere community assembly at 91.9%.
- Observation Heterogeneous selection dominated intercropping-soil community assembly at 86.3%.
- Observation Opportunistic diazotrophs dominated the networks at 78.8–85.9%.
- Observation Specialists represented 10.2–18.5% of network communities.
- Observation Generalists represented 1.38–3.80% of network communities.
- Association Keystone taxa were positively correlated with microbial biomass carbon and nitrate nitrogen.
- Recommendation The authors recommend targeted intercropping to optimize biological nitrogen fixation and soil fertility.