Belowground interactions impact the soil bacterial community, soil fertility, and crop yield in maize/peanut intercropping systems

Q Li, J Chen, L Wu, X Luo, N Li, Y Arafat, S Lin… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Intercropping has been widely used to control disease and improve yield in agriculture. In
this study, maize and peanut were used for non-separation intercropping (NS), semi …

Hiseq base molecular characterization of soil microbial community, diversity structure, and predictive functional profiling in continuous cucumber planted soil affected …

A Ali, M Imran Ghani, Y Li, H Ding, H Meng… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cover crops are key determinants of the ecological stability and sustainability of continuous
cropping soils. However, their agro-ecological role in differentially reshaping the microbiome …

Garlic substrate induces cucumber growth development and decreases Fusarium wilt through regulation of soil microbial community structure and diversity in …

A Ali, MI Ghani, D Haiyan, M Iqbal, Z Cheng… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Garlic substrate could influence plant growth through affecting soil microbiome structure.
The relationship mechanism between changes in soil microbial communities, disease …

Transcriptomic insights into the allelopathic effects of the garlic allelochemical diallyl disulfide on tomato roots

F Cheng, ZH Cheng, HW Meng - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Garlic is an allelopathic crop that can alleviate the obstacles to continuous cropping of
vegetable crops. Diallyl disulfide (DADS), one of the most important allelochemicals in …

[HTML][HTML] Potato–Soybean Intercropping Increased Equivalent Tuber Yield by Improving Rhizosphere Soil Quality, Root Growth, and Plant Physiology of Potato

C Wang, Z Yi, S Chen, F Peng, Q Zhao, Z Tang… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Potato–legume intercropping has been confirmed to increase productivity in modern
agricultural systems. However, the physiological and ecological mechanisms of potato …

A green garlic (Allium sativum L.) based intercropping system reduces the strain of continuous monocropping in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) by adjusting the micro …

X Xiao, Z Cheng, J Lv, J Xie, N Ma, J Yu - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
The continuous cropping obstacle of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) under facility cultivation
is more prevalent in China. This is associated with an imbalance in soil microbial and …

Co-amended synergistic interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the organic substrate-induced cucumber yield and fruit quality associated with the …

A Ali, MI Ghani, H Ding, Y Fan, Z Cheng… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Monotonous cucumber double-cropping systems under plastic greenhouse vegetable
cultivation (PGVC) previously intensified by long-term anthropogenic activities and …

The garlic allelochemical DADS influences cucumber root growth involved in regulating hormone levels and modulating cell cycling

K Ren, S Hayat, X Qi, T Liu, Z Cheng - Journal of plant physiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Most allelochemicals are phytotoxic to the receiver plants and may influence the cell micro-
and ultrastructure, cell division, phytohormone levels, and ultimately growth. In order to …

The better suppression of pepper Phytophthora blight by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus than Purpureocillium lilacinum alone or combined with AM fungus

J Hu, S Hou, M Li, J Wang, F Wu, X Lin - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Phytophthora blight caused by Phytophthora capsici (Pc) is one of the most
economically destructive soilborne diseases of pepper (Capsicum annum L.) on a global …

Dynamics of a soil fungal community in a three-year green garlic/cucumber crop rotation system in Northwest China

H Ding, A Ali, Z Cheng - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
A decreased soil biological environment in terms of an unstable microbial population and
diversity index is primarily caused by intensive continuous cropping systems. In this study, a …