Microbial community composition as affected by dryland cropping systems and tillage in a semiarid sandy soil

Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 910-931

  Acosta Martínez, Verónica ^a   Dowd, Scot E ^b   Bell, Colin W ^c   Lascano, Robert ^a   Booker, Jill D ^a   Zobeck, Ted M ^a   Upchurch, Dan R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Medical Biofilm Research Institute Lubbock   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial diversity; Cropping systems; Enzyme activities; FAME analysis; GRACEnet; Pyrosequencing; Soil microbial communities; Tillage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CROP ROTATION; CROPPING PRACTICE; DRYLAND FARMING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SANDY SOIL; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TILLAGE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); GEMMATIMONADETES; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SECALE CEREALE; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR; SORGHUM X DRUMMONDII; VERRUCOMICROBIAE;

EID: 79955372725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14242818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/d2060910     Document Type: Article

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