Orchard floor management practices that maintain vegetative or biomass groundcover stimulate soil microbial activity and alter soil microbial community composition

Plant and Soil

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 377-389

  Yao, Shengrui ^a   Merwin, Ian A ^a   Bird, George W ^b   Abawi, George S ^a   Thies, Janice E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apple; Bacteria; Fungi; Groundcover management system; Microbial community composition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GROUND COVER; HERBICIDE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MULCHING; ORCHARD; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

FUNGI; MALUS X DOMESTICA; NEMATODA;

EID: 21244503205     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-004-3610-0     Document Type: Article

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