Seed biopriming for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem restoration

P Singh, A Vaishnav, H Liu, C Xiong… - Microbial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The utilization of microbial inoculants in the realm of sustainable agricultural and ecosystem
restoration has witnessed a surge in recent decades. This rise is largely attributed to …

[HTML][HTML] From salty to thriving: plant growth promoting bacteria as nature's allies in overcoming salinity stress in plants

M Peng, Z Jiang, F Zhou, Z Wang - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Soil salinity is one of the main problems that affects global crop yield. Researchers have
attempted to alleviate the effects of salt stress on plant growth using a variety of approaches …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term returning agricultural residues increases soil microbe-nematode network complexity and ecosystem multifunctionality

J Li, J Zhao, X Liao, Q Yi, W Zhang, H Lin, K Liu… - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
The negative environmental impacts of chemical fertilizers have been recognized for a long
time, and the returning of agricultural residues to the soil is considered a sustainable …

Microbial community assembly of the hyperaccumulator plant Sedum plumbizincicola in two contrasting soil types with three levels of cadmium contamination

Y Huang, Y Huang, J Hou, L Wu, P Christie… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial communities are closely related to plant performance and numerous studies have
shown their involvement with the growth and development of host plants, resistance to …

Drip fertigation with straw incorporation promotes soil microbial network complexity and potentially reduces pathogen abundance in greenhouse vegetable production …

J Hu, Y Sun, M Liu, Y Zhao, H Lv, Y Wang, G Li… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Continuous monoculture, conventional flood fertigation and low soil fertility increase the risk
of soil-borne diseases in greenhouse vegetable production systems. Drip fertigation with …

[HTML][HTML] Attribution of dispersal limitation can better explain the assembly patterns of plant microbiota

T Li, J Gao - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Disentangling community assembly processes is crucial for fully understanding the function
of microbiota in agricultural ecosystems. However, numerous plant microbiome surveys …

[HTML][HTML] Potential effect of key soil bacterial taxa on the increase of rice yield under milk vetch rotation

M Xia, X Ma, J Liu, M Wu, Z Li, M Liu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Legume crop rotation is often adopted in rice cultivation to improve soil productivity.
However, little is known about the role of microbes under legume rotation in affecting soil …

Periphytic biofilms function as a double‐edged sword influencing nitrogen cycling in paddy fields

P Sun, Y Chen, J Liu, Y Xu, L Zhou… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It remains unclear whether periphytic biofilms are beneficial to N cycling in paddy fields.
Here, based on a national‐scale field investigation covering 220 rice fields in China, the N …

The mechanism of microbial community succession and microbial co-occurrence network in soil with compost application

YX Wang, XY Liu, HH Di, XS He, Y Sun, S Xiang… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The application of organic and chemical fertilizer into soil can regulate microbial
communities. However, the response mechanism of microbial communities in soil to …

Beyond compliance: harmonising research and husbandry practices to improve experimental reproducibility using fish models

GC Paull, CJ Lee, CR Tyler - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reproducibility in animal research is impacted by the environment, by husbandry practices
in the laboratory and by the animals' provenance. These factors, however, are often not …