Soil microbial communities under conventional-till and no-till continuous cotton systems

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1693-1703

  Feng, Y ^a   Motta, A C ^a,b   Reeves, D W ^b   Burmester, C H ^a   Van Santen, E ^a   Osborne, J A ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional tillage; Cotton; Microbial community; No tillage; Phospholipid ester linked fatty acid

Indexed keywords

COTTON; ECOSYSTEMS; MOISTURE; NITROGEN; SOILS;

SOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

COTTON; FATTY ACID; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; TILLAGE; ZERO TILLAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0242490800     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2003.08.016     Document Type: Article

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