Phylogenetic farming: Can evolutionary history predict crop rotation via the soil microbiome?

Abstract Agriculture has long employed phylogenetic rules whereby farmers are encouraged to rotate taxonomically unrelated plants in shared soil. Although this forms a central tenet of sustainable agriculture, strangely, this on‐farm “rule of thumb” has never been rigorously tested in a scientific f...

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Main Authors: Ian Kaplan, Nicholas A. Bokulich, J. Gregory Caporaso, Laramy S. Enders, Wadih Ghanem, Kathryn S. Ingerslew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-09-01
Series:Evolutionary Applications
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12956