With the international population growing, the consumption of food, poultry, and fiber products increasing greatly. The huge demand leads to a significant change in the climate, Biogeochemistry cycling, and biodiversity. Therefore, on the premise of crop yield increase and stability, it is urgent to perform the sustainable agricultural practice. The ecological planting pattern is the combination of traditional crop rotation, intercropping, or relay intercropping with modern agricultural technology according to the growth rhythm of different crops, on a unit area of land. Consequently, the natural and biological resources, such as light, heat, water, and fertilizer, can be reasonably and fully utilized to obtain a higher yield and economic and ecological benefits. Soil microorganisms can link above-ground and below-ground ecosystems, and play an important role in soil nutrient cycling, soil-borne disease control, and other ecosystem processes. The ecological planting patterns can increase the above-ground plant diversity and subsequently influences the below-ground microorganism.
However, the soil microbial process under different planting patterns is far from clear. For instance, there are still contradictory conclusions concerning the effects of above-ground crops on below-ground microorganisms. Few report concerns about plant disease resistance mechanism, under ecological planting. Especially the interaction effects of rhizosphere microbiome and aboveground crop health are lacking. Furthermore, beneficial microorganisms play a critical role in crop growth. Exploring beneficial antagonism and keeping their balance with pathogens are important directions in sustainable agriculture. Changes in microbial diversity also alter soil ecological functions. It is the cutting-edge topic of how microorganisms drive the cycling of C, N, P, S, and other elements or pollutants under the ecological cropping patterns. In this research topic, we aim to elucidate the response of underground microbial biomass, community, and ecological function and to uncover the interaction mechanisms between different microbial communities and between microbes and crops under different crop patterns. These findings would advance our understanding of the soil microbial ecological processes and functions under ecological planting.
The research topic focuses on, but is not limited to the following topics:
• Changes or distributions of microbial biomass, community structure, and ecological function under different planting patterns on a local or larger scale.
• Rhizospheric microorganisms and rhizospheric ecological processes under different planting patterns.
• The shift of beneficial and pathogenic microbes under ecological planting patterns.
• The microbiological mechanism in organic matter transformation and nutrient cycling under ecological planting.
• Multifaceted plant-microorganism interactions under ecological planting.
With the international population growing, the consumption of food, poultry, and fiber products increasing greatly. The huge demand leads to a significant change in the climate, Biogeochemistry cycling, and biodiversity. Therefore, on the premise of crop yield increase and stability, it is urgent to perform the sustainable agricultural practice. The ecological planting pattern is the combination of traditional crop rotation, intercropping, or relay intercropping with modern agricultural technology according to the growth rhythm of different crops, on a unit area of land. Consequently, the natural and biological resources, such as light, heat, water, and fertilizer, can be reasonably and fully utilized to obtain a higher yield and economic and ecological benefits. Soil microorganisms can link above-ground and below-ground ecosystems, and play an important role in soil nutrient cycling, soil-borne disease control, and other ecosystem processes. The ecological planting patterns can increase the above-ground plant diversity and subsequently influences the below-ground microorganism.
However, the soil microbial process under different planting patterns is far from clear. For instance, there are still contradictory conclusions concerning the effects of above-ground crops on below-ground microorganisms. Few report concerns about plant disease resistance mechanism, under ecological planting. Especially the interaction effects of rhizosphere microbiome and aboveground crop health are lacking. Furthermore, beneficial microorganisms play a critical role in crop growth. Exploring beneficial antagonism and keeping their balance with pathogens are important directions in sustainable agriculture. Changes in microbial diversity also alter soil ecological functions. It is the cutting-edge topic of how microorganisms drive the cycling of C, N, P, S, and other elements or pollutants under the ecological cropping patterns. In this research topic, we aim to elucidate the response of underground microbial biomass, community, and ecological function and to uncover the interaction mechanisms between different microbial communities and between microbes and crops under different crop patterns. These findings would advance our understanding of the soil microbial ecological processes and functions under ecological planting.
The research topic focuses on, but is not limited to the following topics:
• Changes or distributions of microbial biomass, community structure, and ecological function under different planting patterns on a local or larger scale.
• Rhizospheric microorganisms and rhizospheric ecological processes under different planting patterns.
• The shift of beneficial and pathogenic microbes under ecological planting patterns.
• The microbiological mechanism in organic matter transformation and nutrient cycling under ecological planting.
• Multifaceted plant-microorganism interactions under ecological planting.