Effects of intercropping cucumber with onion or garlic on soil enzyme activities, microbial communities and cucumber yield

European Journal of Soil Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 279-287

  Zhou, Xingang ^a   Yu, Gaobo ^a,b   Wu, Fengzhi ^a  

^a NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b General Guiding Station for Sericulture and Apiculture of Heilongjiang Province   (China)

Author keywords

Cucumber; Intercropping; Soil bacterial and fungal community; Soil enzyme activity; Yield

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM CEPA; ALLIUM SATIVUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 80051668807     PISSN: 11645563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Li L., Yang S.C., Li X.L., Zhang F.S., Christie P. Interspecific complementary and competitive interactions between intercropped maize and faba bean. Plant Soil 1999, 212:105-114.
2. Acosta-Martínez V., Burow G., Zobeck T.M., Allen V.G. Soil microbial communities and function in alternative systems to continuous cotton. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 2010, 74:1181-1192.
3. Kaye J.P., McCulley R.L., Burke I.C. Carbon fluxes, nitrogen cycling, and soil microbial communities in adjacent urban, native and agricultural ecosystems. Glob. Change Biol. 2005, 11:575-587.
4. Yao H.Y., Bowman D., Wei S. Soil microbial community structure and diversity in a turfgrass chronosequence: land-use change versus turfgrass management. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2006, 34:209-218.
5. Carney K.M., Matson P.A., Bohannan B.J.M. Diversity and composition of tropical soil nitrifiers across a plant diversity gradient and among land-use types. Ecol. Lett. 2004, 7:684-694.
6. Xie H., Wang X.X., Dai C.C., Chen J.X., Zhang T. Effects of intercropping peanut with medicinal plants on soil microbial community. Chin. J. Appl. Ecol. 2007, 18:693-696.
7. Ghosh P.K., Mohanty M., Bandyopadhyay K.K., Painuli D.K., Misra A.K. Growth, competition, yields advantage and economics in soybean/pigeonpea intercropping system in semi-arid tropics of India: II. Effect of nutrient management. Field Crops Res. 2006, 96:90-97.
8. Inal A., Gunes A., Zhang F., Cakmak I. Peanut/maize intercropping induced changes in rhizosphere and nutrient concentrations in shoots. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 2007, 45:350-356.
9. Zhang L., van der Werf W., Zhang S., Li B., Spiertz J.H.J. Growth, yield and quality of wheat and cotton in relay strip intercropping systems. Field Crops Res. 2007, 103:178-188.
10. Willey R.W. Resource use in intercropping systems. Agr. Water Manage. 1990, 17:215-231.
11. El Dessougi H., Dreele A.Z., Claassen N. Growth and phosphorus uptake of maize cultivated alone, in mixed culture with other crops or after incorporation of their residues. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 2003, 166:254-261.
12. Karlen D.L., Mausbach M.J., Doran J.W., Cline R.G., Harris R.F., Schuman G.E. Soil quality: a concept, definition, and framework for evaluation. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 1997, 61:4-10.
13. Doran J.W., Zeiss M.R. Soil health and sustainability: managing the biotic component of soil quality. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2000, 15:3-11.
14. Gomes N.C., Fagbola O., Costa R., Rumjanek N.G., Buchner A., Mendona-Hagler L., Smalla K. Dynamics of fungal communities in bulk and maize rhizosphere soil in the tropics. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2003, 69:3758-3766.
15. Garbeva P., van Veen J.A., van Elsas J.D. Microbial diversity in soil: selection of microbial populations by plant and soil type and implications for disease suppressiveness. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 2004, 42:243-270.
16. Janvier C., Villeneuve F., Alabouvette C., Edel-Hermann V., Mateille T., Steinberg C. Soil health through soil disease suppression: which strategy from descriptors to indicators. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2007, 39:1-23.
17. Wieland G., Neumann R., Backhaus H. Variation of microbial communities in soil, rhizosphere, and rhizoplane in response to crop species, soil type, and crop development. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001, 67:5849-5854.
18. Marschner P., Crowley D.E., Lieberei R. Arbuscular mycorrhizal infection changes the bacterial 16S rDNA community composition in the rhizosphere of maize. Mycorrhiza 2001, 11:297-302.
19. Söderberg K.H., Olsson P.A., Bååth E. Structure and activity of the bacterial community in the rhizosphere of different plant species and the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 2002, 40:223-231.
20. van der Heijden M.G.A., Klironomos J.N., Ursic M., Moutoglis P., Streitwolf-Engel R., Boller T., Wiemken A., Sanders I.R. Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant diversity, ecosystem variability and productivity. Nature 1998, 396:69-71.
21. Amann R.I., Ludwig W., Schleifer K.H. Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation. Microbiol. Rev. 1995, 59:143-169.
22. Pace N.R. A molecular view of microbial diversity and the biosphere. Sci. 1997, 276:734-740.
23. Muyzer G., de Waal E.C., Uitterlinden A.G. Profiling of complex microbial populations by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genes encoding for 16S rRNA. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1993, 59:695-700.
24. Duineveld B.M., Kowalchuk G.A., Keijzer A., van Elsas J.D., van Veen J.A. Analysis of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of Chrysanthemum via denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of PCR-Amplified 16S rRNA as well as DNA fragments coding for 16S rRNA. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001, 67:172-178.
25. Lalande R., Gagnon B., Simard R.R., Cote D. Soil microbial biomass and enzyme activity following liquid hog manure application in a long-term field trial. Can. J. Soil Sci. 2000, 80:263-269.
26. Casucci C., Okeke B.C., Frankenberger W.T. Effects of mercury on microbial biomass and enzyme activities in soil. Biol. Trace Elem. Res. 2003, 94:179-191.
27. Gianfreda L., Antonietta Rao M., Piotrowska A., Palumbo G., Colombo C. Soil enzyme activities as affected by anthropogenic alterations: intensive agricultural practices and organic pollution. Sci. Total Environ. 2005, 341:265-279.
28. Acosta-Martínez V., Cruz L., Sotomayor-Ramírez D., Pérez-Alegría L. Enzyme activities as affected by soil properties and land use in a tropical watershed. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2007, 35:35-45.
29. Nazih N., Finlay-Moore O., Hartel P.G., Fuhrmann J.J. Whole soil fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profiles of early soybean rhizosphere as affected by temperature and matric water potential. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2001, 33:693-696.
30. Hoffmann G.G., Teicher K. Ein Kolorimetrisches Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Urease Aktivitat in Böden. Z. Pflanzenernähr. Bodenk 1961, 91:55-63.
31. Frankenberger W.T.J., Johanson J.B. Method of measuring invertase activity in soils. Plant Soil 1983, 74:301-311.
32. Johnson J.L., Temple K.L. Some variables affecting the measurement of catalase activity in soil. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Proc. 1964, 28:207-209.
33. Peruccia P., Casucci C., Dumontet S. An improved method to evaluate the o-diphenol oxidase activity of soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2000, 32:1927-1933.
34. Gardes M., Bruns T.D. ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes: application to the identification of mycorrhiza and rusts. Mol. Ecol. 1993, 2:113-118.
35. Garland J.L., Mills A.L. Classification and characterization of heterotrophic microbial communities on the basis of patterns of community-level sole-carbon-source utilization. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1991, 57:2351-2359.
36. Graham M.H., Haynes R.J. Catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities under sugarcane and other land uses estimated by Biolog and substrate-induced respiration methods. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2005, 29:155-164.
37. Gremion F., Chatzinotas A., Kaufmann K., Von Sigler W., Harms H. Impacts of heavy metal contamination and phytoremediation on a microbial community during a twelve-month microcosm experiment. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 2004, 48:273-283.
38. Joynt J., Bischoff M., Turco R., Konopka A., Nakatsu C.H. Microbial community analysis of soils contaminated with lead, chromium and petroleum hydrocarbons. Microb. Ecol. 2006, 51:209-219.
39. Matsuyama T., Nakajima Y., Matsuya K., Ikenaga M., Asakawa S., Kimura M. Bacterial community in plant residues in a Japanese paddy field estimated by RFLP and DGGE analyses. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2007, 39:463-472.
40. Shannon C.E., Weaver W. The Mathematical Theory of Communication 1963, University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
41. Ye S.F., Yu J.Q., Peng Y.H., Zheng J.H., Zou L.Y. Incidence of Fusarium wilt in Cucumis sativus L. is promoted by cinnamic acid, an autotoxin in root exudates. Plant Soil. 2004, 263:143-150.
42. Saha S., Prakash V., Kundu S., Kumar N., Mina B.L. Soil enzymatic activity as affected by long term application of farm yard manure and mineral fertilizer under a rainfed soybean-wheat system in N-W Himalaya. Eur. J. Soil Biol. 2008, 44:309-315.
43. Wu F.Z., Meng L.J., Wang X.Z. Soil enzyme activities in vegetable rotation and continuous cropping system of under shed protection. Plant Nut. Fert. Sci. 2006, 12:554-558.
44. Romaniuk R., Giuffré L., Costantini A. Assessment of soil microbial diversity measurements as indicators of soil functioning in organic and conventional horticulture systems. Ecol. Indic. 2011, 11:1345-1353.
45. Girvan M.S., Bullimore J., Pretty J.N., Osborn A.M., Ball A.S. Soil type is the primary determinant of the composition of the total and active bacterial communities in arable soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2003, 69:1800-1809.
46. Marschner P., Neumann G., Kania A., Weiskopf L., Lieberei R. Spatial and temporal dynamics of the microbial community structure in the rhizosphere of cluster roots of white lupin (Lupinus albus L.). Plant Soil. 2002, 246:167-174.
47. Marschner P., Crowley D., Yang C.H. Development of specific rhizosphere bacterial communities in relation to plant species, nutrition and soil type. Plant Soil 2004, 261:199-208.
48. Xu Y., Wang G., Jin J., Liu J., Zhang Q., Liu X. Bacterial communities in soybean rhizosphere in response to soil type, soybean genotype, and their growth stage. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2009, 41:919-925.
49. Chu H.Y., Lin X.G., Fujii T., Morimoto S., Yagi K., Hu J.L., Zhang J.B. Soil microbial biomass, dehydrogenize activity, bacterial community structure in response to long-term fertilizer management. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2007, 39:2971-2976.
50. Larkin R.P., Honeycutt C.W. Effects of different 3-year cropping systems on soil microbial communities and Rhizoctonia diseases of potato. Phytopathology 2006, 96:68-79.
51. Singh B.K., Munro S., Potts J.M., Millard P. Influence of grass species and soil type on rhizosphere microbial community structure in grassland soils. Appl. Soil Ecol. 2007, 36:147-155.
52. Welbaum G.E., Sturz A.V., Dong Z., Nowak J. Managing soil microorganisms to improve productivity of agro-ecosystems. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 2004, 23:175-193.
53. Franchini J.C., Gonzalez-Vila F.J., Rodriguez J. Decomposition of plant residues used in no-tillage systems as revealed by flash pyrolysis. J. Anal. Appl. Pyrol. 2002, 62:35-43.
54. Dutta R.K., Agrawal M. Litterfall, litter decomposition and nutrient release in five exotic plant species planted on coal mine spoils. Pedobiologia 2001, 45:298-312.