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SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 96, Issue -, Pages 191-197Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.02.010
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Soil suppressiveness; Soil management; Microbial activity; Microbial biomass; Bacterial diversity
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq/Brazil) [236555/2012-0]
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia (INCT) da Fixacao Biologica do Nitrogenio (Brazil)
- Bielefeld Young Researchers Fund
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The ability of soils to detain the onset of a disease in a susceptible host is called soil suppressiveness. Soil suppressiveness can often be attributed to the activity of soil microorganisms. Considering that soil management can drastically affect microbial soil communities, the objective of this work was to evaluate the impact of different crop systems and tillage practices on the suppression of wheat head blight, caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium graminearum, assessing the relationships between soil suppressiveness and microbial activity and diversity. Samples were taken from a long-term (30 years) experimental set-up in a Paleudult soil under conventional tillage or no-tillage management and three cropping systems: oat (Avena strigosa)/maize (Zea mays); vetch (Vicia sativa)/maize; and black oat + vetch/maize + cowpea (Vigna sinensis). The soil-borne fungus F. graminearum, the causal agent of wheat head blight, was used as model pathogen and wheat (Triticum aestivum) as model host plant. No-tillage soil samples showed the highest level of E graminearum suppression by significantly reducing plant disease intensity. Of the cropping systems tested, the vetch + black oat/maize + cowpea system showed the highest suppressiveness and the oat/maize system showed the lowest. Microbial biomass, respiratory activity and the activity of the chitin degrading enzyme beta-glucosaminidase followed the same trend, being associated to soil organic matter. Chitinophagaceae, Acidobacteriaceae, Xanthomonadaceae and Burkholderiaceae were associated to soil suppressiveness. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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