Long-Term Chemical-Only Fertilization Induces a Diversity Decline and Deep Selection on the Soil Bacteria

Long-Term Chemical-Only Fertilization Induces a Diversity Decline and Deep Selection on the Soil Bacteria

Chemical-only fertilization is ubiquitous in contemporary conventional agriculture despite the fact that sustainability of this agricultural practice is increasingly being questioned because of the current observed soil degradation. We explored how long-term chemical-only versus organic-only fertili...

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Main Authors: Qicheng Xu, Ning Ling, Huan Chen, Yinghua Duan, Shuang Wang, Qirong Shen, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-07-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
deterministic processes
fertilization
generalist
specialist
stochastic processes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00337-20

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https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00337-20

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