Chestnut green waste composting for sustainable forest management: Microbiota dynamics and impact on plant disease control

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 166, Issue , 2016, Pages 168-177

  Ventorino, Valeria ^a   Parillo, Rita ^a   Testa, Antonino ^a   Viscardi, Sharon ^a   Espresso, Francesco ^a   Pepe, Olimpia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chestnut; DGGE; Green waste compost; Renewable inputs; Soil borne pathogen suppression

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; DISEASE CONTROL; FORESTRY; FRUITS; FUNGI; SUBSTRATES; WASTE TREATMENT;

CHESTNUT; DGGE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GREEN WASTE COMPOST; LIGNOCELLULOSIC WASTES; MICROBIOTAS; PROPERTY; RENEWABLE INPUT; SOIL-BORNE PATHOGEN SUPPRESSION; SOIL-BORNE PATHOGENS;

COMPOSTING;

BACTERIAL RNA; FUNGAL RNA; LIGNOCELLULOSE; RIBOSOME RNA; FERTILIZER; SOIL;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; DICOTYLEDON; DISEASE CONTROL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRUIT; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGEN; PROKARYOTE; RECYCLING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOILBORNE DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCES; AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; AZOTOBACTER; BACILLI; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CANDIDA; CANDIDA OLEOPHILA; CANDIDA RAILENSIS; CHESTNUT; CLADOSPORIUM; COMPOSTING; EPILITHONIMONAS; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GREEN WASTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUCOR PLUMBEUS; MUCOR RACEMOSUS; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL; PLANT GROWTH; PROKARYOTE; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIA MINOR; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STREPTOMYCES; TOMATO; TREE CLEANING; TREE PRUNING; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; FAGACEAE; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PLANT DISEASE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SOIL; STANDARDS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCES; ASPERGILLUS; AZOTOBACTER; BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOSPORIUM; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FUSARIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUCOR; PENICILLIUM; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOBIALES; SCLEROTINIA MINOR; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STREPTOMYCES; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ASCOMYCOTA; FAGACEAE; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; FUSARIUM; MICROBIOTA; PLANT DISEASES; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84945299191     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.10.018     Document Type: Article

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