Claim · model-written summary
Tobacco–maize intercropping reinforced soil ecosystem stability through functional microorganisms and community architecture.
- Taxon
- Tobacco
Nicotiana tabacume0 - Treatment
- Tobacco–maize intercroppinge0
- Outcome
- soil ecosystem stabilitye0
- Qualifier
- enrichment of functional microorganisms and optimization of community architecturee0
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Verbatim
e0“Tobacco–maize intercropping reinforced soil ecosystem stability through enrichment of functional microorganisms and optimization of community architecture”
Title
Kaiyuan Gu; Xianglu Liu; Ming Liu; et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 2025. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2025.1647493
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Tobacco–soybean intercropping increased cation exchange capacity (CEC) by 13.9 compared with tobacco monoculture.
- Intervention effect Tobacco–soybean intercropping increased total nitrogen (TN) by 13.9 compared with tobacco monoculture.
- Intervention effect Tobacco–soybean intercropping increased available phosphorus (AP) by 43.8 compared with tobacco monoculture.
- Intervention effect Tobacco–soybean intercropping increased available potassium (AK) by 129.1% compared with tobacco monoculture.
- Intervention effect Tobacco–maize intercropping increased CEC by 26.7%.
- Intervention effect Tobacco–maize intercropping increased AK by 9.7%.
- Intervention effect Both intercropping models increased bacterial species richness in tobacco soil.
- Observation Fungal diversity was more pronounced under monoculture.
- Intervention effect Intercropping favored Proteobacteria and Basidiomycota.
- Intervention effect Intercropping suppressed Ascomycota.
- Intervention effect Tobacco–maize intercropping augmented nitrifying bacteria and Actinobacteria.
- Intervention effect Tobacco–soybean intercropping recruited symbiotic fungi.
- Intervention effect Intercropping intensified microbial network complexity and modularity.
- Intervention effect Intercropping increased ecosystem resilience to disturbances.
- Association Bacterial community structure was primarily associated with soil pH.
- Association Fungal communities were associated with available potassium and phosphorus.
- Mechanism Tobacco–soybean intercropping increased nitrogen availability through legume nitrogen fixation.
- Intervention effect Tobacco–soybean intercropping facilitated nitrogen-cycling microbes.
- Recommendation The authors suggest tobacco intercropping as a sustainable agricultural strategy for soil health and productivity.