Claim · model-written summary
Bacterial and fungal community composition differed between continuous cropping and control groups.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- continuous croppinge0
- Outcome
- bacterial and fungal community compositione0
- Comparator
- control groupse0
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Verbatim
t0“Continuous watermelon cropping”
e0“significant differences in bacterial and fungal community composition between the continuous cropping and control groups”
Title
HuiFang Lv; Rui Sang; LingLing Huang; et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 2025. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2025.1648481
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping decreased soil pH.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping decreased OM.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping decreased AN.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping decreased AP.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping decreased AK.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping reduced rhizosphere UA.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping reduced rhizosphere APA.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping reduced rhizosphere DA.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping reduced rhizosphere MBC.
- Intervention effect Continuous watermelon cropping reduced rhizosphere MBN.
- Intervention effect FON population increased after continuous watermelon cropping.
- Intervention effect Fusarium wilt incidence increased after continuous watermelon cropping.
- Intervention effect Continuous cropping decreased soil bacterial and fungal community richness.
- Intervention effect Continuous cropping decreased soil bacterial and fungal community diversity.
- Association Soil parameters and bacterial and fungal community richness and diversity were significantly associated with plant growth.
- Association Fusarium wilt incidence was negatively associated with watermelon growth.
- Association FON population was negatively associated with watermelon growth.
- Mechanism The authors hypothesize that soil acidification, biochemical deterioration, Fusarium wilt and altered microbial communities cause poor watermelon growth.