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Soil bacterial and fungal richness decreased with continuous coffee cropping.
- Treatment
- continuous coffee croppinge0
- Outcome
- Soil bacterial and fungal richnesse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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e0“Soil bacterial and fungal richness decreased with continuous coffee cropping”
Title
Long-Term Coffee Monoculture Alters Soil Chemical Properties and Microbial Communities
Qingyun Zhao; Wu Xiong; Yizhang Xing; et al. Scientific Reports 2018. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-24537-2
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Long-term monoculture decreased soil pH.
- Observation Long-term monoculture decreased soil organic matter content.
- Observation Long-term monoculture increased soil EC.
- Association Monoculture time was a major determinant of bacterial and fungal community structure.
- Association Relative abundances of Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Nitrospira decreased over time.
- Association Relative abundance of fungal Ascomycota decreased over time.
- Association Nitrospira and Trichoderma declined significantly over time.
- Association Nitrospira and Trichoderma showed positive relationships with coffee plant growth in pots.
- Mechanism The authors suggest declining soil quality and beneficial microbes may cause poor coffee growth and declining field yields.
- Recommendation The authors recommend improving soil pH, organic matter and microbial activity while reducing salt stress for coffee production.