Abstract Evaluation of the sustainability and environmental footprint of different agricultural
production systems, such as organic and conventional systems, is an open scientific debate …

Reductions in sequencing costs have enabled widespread use of shotgun metagenomics
and amplicon sequencing, which have drastically improved our understanding of the …

The microbial diversity is, among soil key factors, responsible for soil fertility and nutrient
biogeochemical cycles, and can be modified upon changes in main soil physicochemical …

The fungus Cercospora beticola causes Cercospora Leaf Spot (CLS) of sugar beet (Beta
vulgaris L.). Despite the global importance of this disease, durable resistance to CLS has …

Abstract Context Cover crops (CCs) exert significant influences on both soil water content
(SWC) and nitrogen (N) cycling, with their effects often varying across different stages of crop …

The method providing one-step isolation of DNA from soil extracts was developed. Isolation
of nucleic acids from the biological objects presenting in a soil usually is carried out by in …

Despite the raising preoccupation, the critical question of how the plant community is
composed belowground still remains unresolved, particularly for the conservation priority …

Abstract The 1: 250,000 scale soil map in the years 2000 can be seen as a significant
consolidation of soil surveying and mapping activities in the Veneto region, after some …

Rhizomania is a grave disease affecting sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.). It is caused by the
Beet Necrotic Yellow Vein Virus (BNYVV), an RNA virus transmitted by the plasmodiophorid …

Almost half of the global land surface is considered degraded, and this is expected to
worsen due to ongoing land degradation and impacts of climate changes. Ecological …