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Above- and below-ground interactions with agricultural management: Effects of soil microbial communities on barley and aphids

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Recent research has shown that agricultural management affects microbial biomass and community composition. We investigated the functional implications of such effects in terms of barley biomass production and nutrient acquisition, and whether changes in barley nutrient status affected aphid fecundity. Soils were collected from conventional, ley and organic arable fields and used as inocula in a glasshouse experiment. We determined microbial biomass and community composition using PLFA. We investigated barley growth and nutrient responses to the different soil inoculums, and the impact of excluding arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Aphids were applied to plants within clip cages and numbers of offspring counted. Microbial biomass and community composition were unaffected by agricultural management. The microbial communities altered root and shoot biomass and nutrient allocation, but had no effect on grain yield. Exclusion of AMF significantly increased shoot biomass but reduced grain yield. Aphid fecundity was not significantly affected by the microbial community or shoot nitrogen. We conclude that agricultural intensification does not necessarily have negative consequences for above- and below-ground interactions, and microbial communities from conventionally managed soils may offer equal benefit to crop productivity and nutrition as those from organically managed soils. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

67-74

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Pedobiologia

Volym

57

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
  • Ecology

Nyckelord

  • Above below ground linkages
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
  • Aphid
  • fecundity
  • Biomass production
  • Nutrient acquisition
  • Soil microbial
  • community

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Soil Ecology

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1873-1511