Effect of Calcium Cyanamide as an Alternative Nitrogen Source on Growth, Yield, and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Short-Day Onion

MPZ Simelane, P Soundy, MM Maboko - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Effective nitrogen (N) management in agriculture is vital to optimize crop growth and yield
while minimizing environmental impact. Conventional nitrogen (N) sources, such as urea …

Determining Soil Microbial Communities and Their Influence on Ganoderma Disease Incidences in Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) via High-Throughput Sequencing

YK Goh, MZHM Zoqratt, YK Goh, Q Ayub, ASY Ting - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Biological and physicochemical soil factors involved in the incidence of the
basal stem rot (BSR) disease in an oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation in Malaysia were …

Symbiosis—A Perspective on the Effects of Host Traits and Environmental Parameters in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Richness, Colonization and Ecological …

MC Enebe, M Erasmus - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are biotrophic fungi that form an association with plant roots
and render benefits in nutrient uptake, disease control and plant tolerance to stress …

Impacts of conversion from natural forest to cedar plantation on the structure and diversity of root-associated and soil microbial communities

K Sawada, Y Inagaki, S Sugihara, S Funakawa… - Applied Soil …, 2021 - Elsevier
Natural broadleaved forests have been widely converted to plantations with economically
valuable trees mainly belonging to the family Pinaceae in temperate regions. Furthermore …

Discovering naturally-occurring microbiota in disease suppressive soil: Potential role of biological elements in suppressing Ganoderma boninense

YK Goh, MZHM Zoqratt, YK Goh, Q Ayub, ASY Ting - Biological Control, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Blenheim soil (Typic Quartzipsamment) and Bernam soil (Typic Endoaquept) with
low and high Ganoderma basal stem rot (BSR) incidence, respectively, were studied to …

Shifts in composition and function of soil fungal communities and edaphic properties during the reclamation chronosequence of an open-cast coal mining dump

K Wang, Y Bi, Y Cao, S Peng, P Christie, S Ma… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The diversity, composition and ecological guilds of soil fungal communities in relation to
revegetation were assessed during an open-cast mining dump reclamation …

Biodiversity of Trichoderma from grassland and forest ecosystems in Northern Xinjiang, China

J Ma, E Tsegaye, M Li, B Wu, X Jiang - 3 Biotech, 2020 - Springer
Trichoderma spp., a cosmopolitan fungal genus, has remarkable economic value in industry
and agriculture. The resources of Trichoderma spp. in the grassland and forest ecosystems …

Association between dipsacus saponin VI level and diversity of endophytic fungi in roots of Dipsacus asperoides

A Gong, T Zhou, C Xiao, W Jiang, Y Zhou… - World Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Dipsacus asperoides contains multiple pharmacologically active compounds. The principal
are saponins. The plant can be cultivated, but it contains lower levels of bioactive …

Age-Related Conservation in Plant–Soil Feedback Accompanied by Ectomycorrhizal Domination in Temperate Forests in Northeast China

Z Bai, J Ye, SF Liu, HH Sun, ZQ Yuan, ZK Mao, S Fang… - Journal of Fungi, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the effects of forest aging on ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal
community and foraging behavior and their interactions with plant–soil attributes. We …

Isotopic constraints on plant nitrogen acquisition strategies during ecosystem retrogression

KA Dynarski, BZ Houlton - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
Plant root associations with microbes such as mycorrhizal fungi or N-fixing bacteria enable
ecosystems to tap pools of nitrogen (N) that might otherwise be inaccessible, including …