Soil microbial legacy drives crop diversity advantage: Linking ecological plant–soil feedback with agricultural intercropping

• Published in: The Journal of applied ecology Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 496 - 506
• Main Authors: Wang, Guangzhou, Bei, Shuikuan, Li, Jianpeng, Bao, Xingguo, Zhang, Jiudong, Schultz, Peggy A., Li, Haigang, Li, Long, Zhang, Fusuo, Bever, James D., Zhang, Junling, Hannula, Emilia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2021
• Subjects: Abundance; Agricultural practices; Agriculture; applied ecology; Beans; Biodiversity; Biological activity; Broad beans; Cereals; Corn; Crop diversification; Cropping systems; Crops; DNA barcoding; Ecological studies; faba bean; faba beans; Farm buildings; Feedback; field experimentation; fungi; Fusarium oxysporum; genes; greenhouse experimentation; inoculum; Intercropping; Legumes; maize; Microbiomes; Microorganisms; Monoculture; overyielding; Pathogens; Plant communities; plant‐soil feedback; Relative abundance; Rotation; soil; Soil conditions; Soil microorganisms; soil-plant interactions; Soils; Sustainable agriculture; Triticum aestivum; Vicia faba; Wheat; Zea mays

Although the importance of the soil microbiome in mediating plant community structures and functions has been increasingly emphasized in ecological studies, the biological processes driving crop diversity overyielding remain unexplained in agriculture. Based on the plant–soil feedback (PSF) theory a...