Environmental Factors Shaping the Soil Microbiome

• Other Authors: Sa, Tongmin (Editor), Anandham, Rangasamy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; halophyte; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; plant growth promoting rhizobacteria; morphological characteristics; photosynthesis; soil enzymes; microbial interactions; rhizosphere; DNA; proteins; microbial diversity; microbial activity; acidic soil improvement; liming; microbial community; plant residue incorporation; soil enzyme activity; subtropical orchard soil; phosphorus-enriched rhizosphere soils; phosphate; phytoremediation; bacterial communities; high-throughput sequencing; Orchidaceae; soil; bacteria; fungi; microbiome; heavy metal; NGS; azo dye; textile; wastewater; diversity; xenobiotics; pollutant; Nitrogen deposition; soil biodiversity; urban; 16S rRNA; wild-simulated ginseng; Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer; soil bacterial community; soil property; correlation analysis; agricultural practices; cultivar; grafting; interaction rootstock scion; plant performance; rhizosphere bacteria; taxonomic indicators; viticulture; long-term fertilization; next-generation sequencing; bacterial diversity; plant growth; soil microbial community; environmental factors; soil contamination; culture-independent analysis
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This book emphasizes that soil productivity is considered an important factor for the success of agricultural production. The microbial community's composition and the diversity of agricultural soils primarily depend on management practices. Exogenous nutritional inputs are inevitable processes in crop production, which can change the structure of soil bacterial communities. The combined application of compost and inorganic fertilizers might be a good way to keep up with agricultural productivity while maintaining the environmental balance. Bacterial communities are also known to differ according to the plant genotypes and hosts. Plant genotypic differences do not always lead to significant differences in microbiomes in the rhizosphere. It was concluded that imaginative research should address the simulation of the soil microenvironment, so as to understand the factors that regulate microbial activities in micro-niches.