Crop-specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long-term intensification management: the importance of crop phase at sampling

Introduction: The ecosystem services provided by soil microbial communities are critical for the resilience of agroecosystems, ensuring environmental conservation and food security. Long-term experiments comparing contrasting crop rotations are valuable tools for monitoring microbial responses, but...

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Autores principales: Frene, Juan Pablo, Bacigaluppo, Silvina, Maury, Mariana, Ortiz, Jimena, Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro, Salvagiotti, Fernando, Faggioli, Valeria Soledad
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22681
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/agronomy/articles/10.3389/fagro.2024.1446404/full
https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2024.1446404
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author Frene, Juan Pablo
Bacigaluppo, Silvina
Maury, Mariana
Ortiz, Jimena
Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro
Salvagiotti, Fernando
Faggioli, Valeria Soledad
author_browse Bacigaluppo, Silvina
Faggioli, Valeria Soledad
Frene, Juan Pablo
Maury, Mariana
Ortiz, Jimena
Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro
Salvagiotti, Fernando
author_facet Frene, Juan Pablo
Bacigaluppo, Silvina
Maury, Mariana
Ortiz, Jimena
Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro
Salvagiotti, Fernando
Faggioli, Valeria Soledad
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description Introduction: The ecosystem services provided by soil microbial communities are critical for the resilience of agroecosystems, ensuring environmental conservation and food security. Long-term experiments comparing contrasting crop rotations are valuable tools for monitoring microbial responses, but they rarely include all crop phases within a single year. Therefore, the long-term agronomic impact may be masked by the immediate effect of the crop evaluated. In this study, we compared different crop rotations based on the Intensification Sequence Index (ISI), which considers the soil occupation time, and analyzed the impact of cover crops and two nitrogen fertilization strategies. Material and methods: We used an experiment initiated in 2006 with the following crop rotations: Soybean-Soybean, Maize-Wheat/Soybean, and Maize-Soybean-Wheat/Soybean. Soil samples were taken after the harvest of each summer crop phase (i.e., Soybean, Maize, Wheat/Soybean), and the soil prokaryotic community was monitored using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Results and discussion: We observed that ISI and crop phase were the main predictors of microbial community composition, explaining 14.7% and 13.0% of the variation, respectively. Nitrogen fertilization had a minor effect (3.12%) and was detected only after maize sampling; cover crops had no significant effect. However, the presence of cover crops showed higher alpha diversity and an increased abundance of Proteobacteria. Maize enriched the abundance of certain taxa of Planctomycetes and Verrucomicrobia, while Soybean increased the abundance of Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria. Comparatively, Soybean enriched Mucilaginibacter and Geobacter, while Wheat/Soybean enriched Brevundimonas and Roseimicrobium. Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that crop phase is as important as the long-term legacy of crop rotations in shaping the microbial community and that specific taxa responses are highly dependent on the crop phase surveyed.
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spelling INTA226812025-06-13T13:11:22Z Crop-specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long-term intensification management: the importance of crop phase at sampling Frene, Juan Pablo Bacigaluppo, Silvina Maury, Mariana Ortiz, Jimena Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro Salvagiotti, Fernando Faggioli, Valeria Soledad Cultivos Suelo Aplicación de Abonos Abonos Nitrogenados Plantas de Cobertura Intensificación Crops Soil Fertilizer Application Nitrogen Fertilizers Cover Plants Intensification Fertilización Nitrogenada Cultivos de Cobertura Nitrogen Fertilization Introduction: The ecosystem services provided by soil microbial communities are critical for the resilience of agroecosystems, ensuring environmental conservation and food security. Long-term experiments comparing contrasting crop rotations are valuable tools for monitoring microbial responses, but they rarely include all crop phases within a single year. Therefore, the long-term agronomic impact may be masked by the immediate effect of the crop evaluated. In this study, we compared different crop rotations based on the Intensification Sequence Index (ISI), which considers the soil occupation time, and analyzed the impact of cover crops and two nitrogen fertilization strategies. Material and methods: We used an experiment initiated in 2006 with the following crop rotations: Soybean-Soybean, Maize-Wheat/Soybean, and Maize-Soybean-Wheat/Soybean. Soil samples were taken after the harvest of each summer crop phase (i.e., Soybean, Maize, Wheat/Soybean), and the soil prokaryotic community was monitored using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Results and discussion: We observed that ISI and crop phase were the main predictors of microbial community composition, explaining 14.7% and 13.0% of the variation, respectively. Nitrogen fertilization had a minor effect (3.12%) and was detected only after maize sampling; cover crops had no significant effect. However, the presence of cover crops showed higher alpha diversity and an increased abundance of Proteobacteria. Maize enriched the abundance of certain taxa of Planctomycetes and Verrucomicrobia, while Soybean increased the abundance of Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria. Comparatively, Soybean enriched Mucilaginibacter and Geobacter, while Wheat/Soybean enriched Brevundimonas and Roseimicrobium. Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that crop phase is as important as the long-term legacy of crop rotations in shaping the microbial community and that specific taxa responses are highly dependent on the crop phase surveyed. EEA Marcos Juárez Fil: Frene, Juan Pablo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Marcos Juárez; Argentina Fil: Bacigaluppo, Silvina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Oliveros; Argentina Fil: Maury, Mariana. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Marcos Juárez; Argentina Fil: Ortiz, Jimena. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Marcos Juárez; Argentina Fil: Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular; Argentina Fil: Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Salvagiotti, Fernando. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Oliveros; Argentina Fil: Faggioli, Valeria Soledad. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Marcos Juárez; Argentina 2025-06-13T13:08:34Z 2025-06-13T13:08:34Z 2024-12 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22681 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/agronomy/articles/10.3389/fagro.2024.1446404/full 2673-3218 https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2024.1446404 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Frontiers Media Frontiers in Agronomy 6 : 1446404. (December 2024)
spellingShingle Cultivos
Suelo
Aplicación de Abonos
Abonos Nitrogenados
Plantas de Cobertura
Intensificación
Crops
Soil
Fertilizer Application
Nitrogen Fertilizers
Cover Plants
Intensification
Fertilización Nitrogenada
Cultivos de Cobertura
Nitrogen Fertilization
Frene, Juan Pablo
Bacigaluppo, Silvina
Maury, Mariana
Ortiz, Jimena
Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro
Salvagiotti, Fernando
Faggioli, Valeria Soledad
Crop-specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long-term intensification management: the importance of crop phase at sampling
title Crop-specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long-term intensification management: the importance of crop phase at sampling
title_full Crop-specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long-term intensification management: the importance of crop phase at sampling
title_fullStr Crop-specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long-term intensification management: the importance of crop phase at sampling
title_full_unstemmed Crop-specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long-term intensification management: the importance of crop phase at sampling
title_short Crop-specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long-term intensification management: the importance of crop phase at sampling
title_sort crop specific response of soil prokaryotic community to long term intensification management the importance of crop phase at sampling
topic Cultivos
Suelo
Aplicación de Abonos
Abonos Nitrogenados
Plantas de Cobertura
Intensificación
Crops
Soil
Fertilizer Application
Nitrogen Fertilizers
Cover Plants
Intensification
Fertilización Nitrogenada
Cultivos de Cobertura
Nitrogen Fertilization
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22681
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/agronomy/articles/10.3389/fagro.2024.1446404/full
https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2024.1446404
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