Notably, cover crop plant species correlated with soil nutrients and plant beneficial microbes, which may warrant consideration when selecting cover crop species.
Soil chemical analyses provided additional evidence that the cover crops did not deplete soil nutrients and reduce soil moisture, but rather, enhanced soil nutrient and moisture contents during many of the sampling time points. We revealed that the cover cropped alley soils contained higher relative abundances of microbes that use labile soil substrates in resource rich conditions than did the tree row soils. We employed routine soil chemical analyses, phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis, and high throughput sequencing of 16 S rRNA genes and ITS regions for soils collected at four time points. We collected soil beneath cover crops and beneath adjacent trees, where soil was kept bare, to evaluate impacts of cover on the soil biota, nutrients, carbon, and their dynamics across a production season. This field sampling study examined variances in soil conditions across 5- and 7-year-old, cover cropped pecan orchards. While cover crops uptake soil nutrients and water, they can also prevent soil water evaporative losses and return nutrients to soils via decomposition of plant residues and stimulation of microbial nutrient cycling. So, in the above-mentioned context this article will help the researchers to uncover the critical areas of the microbiome that many researchers were not able to explore earlier.Ĭurrently, there are substantial knowledge gaps on the impacts of cover crops on soil resources in tree cropping systems, wherein they are typically planted in interrow alleys and maintained for multiple years. In addition, for the benefit of agriculture and food production, we also discussthe potential for root microbiome modification. This interaction may directly affect the plant health and development which ultimately leads to the organization of novel microbiome-driven strategies.
In the present chapter, we counsel the perception that for sustainable development of agriculture we have to understand the mechanisms by which plants interact with their microbiome. Soil microbiome symbolizes the immense reservoir of biological diversity acknowledged in the world so far. Mostly microbes inhabiting plant-related alcoves have impartial or advantageous roles in plant buildup. After numerous depictions and attempts to evaluate the incident and their impersonation to boost microbial diversity linked with flora, it is pretended that somewhat a dinky portion of plant-interacting microbes are pathogenic or harmful comparable to the beneficial one. Various studies have been carried out on interactions between these microbes and plants but traditionally emphasized on pathogenic interactions. Our planet and its inhabitants have been shaped by micro organisms for over 3.5 billion years.
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