Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields
Different plants are known to have different soil microbial communities associated with them. Agricultural management practices such as fertiliser and pesticide addition, crop rotation, and grazing animals can lead to different microbial communities in the associated agricultural soils. Soil dilutio...
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| description | Different plants are known to have different soil microbial communities associated with them. Agricultural management practices such as fertiliser and pesticide addition, crop rotation, and grazing animals can lead to different microbial communities in the associated agricultural soils. Soil dilution plates, most-probable-number (MPN), community level physiological profiling (CLPP), and buried slide technique as well as some measured soil physicochemical parameters were used to determine changes during the growing season in the ecosystem profile in wheat fields subjected to wheat monoculture or wheat in annual rotation with medic/clover pasture. Statistical analyses showed that soil moisture had an over-riding effect on seasonal fluctuations in soil physicochemical and microbial populations. While within season soil microbial activity could be differentiated between wheat fields under rotational and monoculture management, these differences were not significant. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-02a973c4ecea4b8ea20778cb6c57a6432025-02-03T06:48:05ZengWileyApplied and Environmental Soil Science1687-76671687-76752012-01-01201210.1155/2012/593623593623Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat FieldsA. Marais0M. Hardy1M. Booyse2A. Botha3Western Cape Department of Agriculture, Institute for Plant Production, Private Bag X1, Elsenburg 7607, South AfricaWestern Cape Department of Agriculture, Institute for Plant Production, Private Bag X1, Elsenburg 7607, South AfricaBiometry Unit, Agricultural Research Council, Private Bag X5013, Stellenbosch 7599, South AfricaDepartment of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa Different plants are known to have different soil microbial communities associated with them. Agricultural management practices such as fertiliser and pesticide addition, crop rotation, and grazing animals can lead to different microbial communities in the associated agricultural soils. Soil dilution plates, most-probable-number (MPN), community level physiological profiling (CLPP), and buried slide technique as well as some measured soil physicochemical parameters were used to determine changes during the growing season in the ecosystem profile in wheat fields subjected to wheat monoculture or wheat in annual rotation with medic/clover pasture. Statistical analyses showed that soil moisture had an over-riding effect on seasonal fluctuations in soil physicochemical and microbial populations. While within season soil microbial activity could be differentiated between wheat fields under rotational and monoculture management, these differences were not significant.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/593623 |
| spellingShingle | A. Marais M. Hardy M. Booyse A. Botha Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields Applied and Environmental Soil Science |
| title | Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields |
| title_full | Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields |
| title_fullStr | Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields |
| title_short | Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields |
| title_sort | effects of monoculture crop rotation and soil moisture content on selected soil physicochemical and microbial parameters in wheat fields |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/593623 |
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