Soil microbial communities play a crucial role in soil fertility, sustainability, and plant health.
However, intensive agriculture with increasing chemical inputs and changing environments …

The effects of natural succession on plant communities and soil variables have been
established, but changes in microbial communities and their response to plants and soils …

Soil microbial communities directly affect soil functionality through their roles in the cycling of
soil nutrients and carbon storage. Microbial communities vary substantially in space and …

Although numerous studies have investigated changes in soil microbial communities across
space, questions about the temporal variability in these communities and how this variability …

Although biotic legacies of past agricultural practices are widespread and increasing in
contemporary ecosystems, our understanding of the mechanisms driving such legacies is …

Agriculture is an engine of economic development and is integral to any agenda for
addressing global issues of the twenty-first century (eg, food and nutritional security, climate …

Understanding the influence of long-term crop management practices on the soil microbial
community is critical for linking soil microbial flora with ecosystem processes such as those …

The soil microbiome determines crop production and drives nutrient cycling, functions that
are altered by fertilization. Yet, we have only begun to understand the effects of fertilization …

Alkaline phosphatases such as PhoD and PhoX are important in organic phosphorus
cycling in soil. We identified the key organisms harboring the phoD and phoX genes in soil …

Background Microbial inoculants are an alternative method of increasing crop productivity
that can reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, which is one of the more controversial …