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Assessing soil quality under intensive cultivation and tree orchards in Southern Italy
Giuliano Bonanomi,R. D'Ascoli,Vincenzo Antignani,Manuela Capodilupo,Lucia Cozzolino,Rossana Marzaioli,Gerardo Puopolo,Flora Angela Rutigliano,Rosalia Scelza,Riccardo Scotti,Maria A. Rao,Astolfo Zoina +11 more
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Differences among the assessed soil parameters indicate a trend of soil quality deterioration under the high-input management regime, which was recorded among farms with different soil types.About:
This article is published in Applied Soil Ecology.The article was published on 2011-03-01. It has received 88 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil fertility & Soil classification.read more
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Organic amendments as sustainable tool to recovery fertility in intensive agricultural systems
TL;DR: The potential value of organic amendments in the recovery of soil fertility in sites under plastic cover intensive farming system is focused on, with the need, in the future researches, to identify organic amendments able to maximize a recovery of land fertility.
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Enzymes as useful tools for environmental purposes
TL;DR: Roles of enzymes as decontaminating agents, pollutant assaying agents and indicators of environment safety are briefly encompassed.
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Effect of biochar addition on soil microbial community in a wheat crop
Flora Angela Rutigliano,M. Romano,Rossana Marzaioli,I. Baglivo,Silvia Baronti,Franco Miglietta,Simona Castaldi +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of wood-derived biochar on soil microbial community were investigated in a wheat crop in Tuscany (Italy), where soil samples were collected 3 and 14 months after treatments over two successive growing seasons, and analyzed for pH, total organic C (C org ), extractable C(C ext ), microbial biomass-C (C mic ), 25 specific microbial activities, mean substrate-induced respiration (mSIR) for 25 substrates, functional microbial diversity and bacterial genetic diversity.
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Organic farming induces changes in soil microbiota that affect agro-ecosystem functions
Giuliano Bonanomi,Francesca De Filippis,Gaspare Cesarano,Antonietta La Storia,Danilo Ercolini,Felice Scala +5 more
TL;DR: Correlation analysis between microbial OTUs relative abundance and ecosystem functions suggest that eukarya play a major role, compared to bacteria, in controlling plant growth and organic carbon cycling.
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Organic amendment type and application frequency affect crop yields, soil fertility and microbiome composition
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of different organic amendments and application frequency on crop yield, soil fertility, and soil microbial communities were assessed using high-throughput sequencing of bacterial and eukaryotic rRNA gene markers.
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TL;DR: An extensive literature review of all available salt tolerance data was undertaken to evaluate the current status of our knowledge of the salt tolerance of agricultural crops as mentioned in this paper, concluding that crops tolerate salinity up to a threshold level above which yields decrease approximately linearly as salt concentrations increase.
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