Journal
ACTA AGRICULTURAE SCANDINAVICA SECTION B-SOIL AND PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 61, Issue 2, Pages 122-128Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS
DOI: 10.1080/09064710903555322
Keywords
Crop rotation; cucumber; PCR-DGGE; soil bacterial community diversity; yield
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- National '973' Project of China [2009 CB 119004-05]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30571264]
- National Science and Technology Supporting Project of China [2006BAD07B03]
- Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Heilong Province, China [JC200803]
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Using polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) methods, we investigated the effects of seven different crop rotation modes on cucumber rhizosphere soil bacterial communities. The bacterial diversity indexes in three growth periods showed that the diversity and evenness indexes of the kidney bean-celery-cucumber rotation were higher than those of the following rotations: tomato-kidney bean-cucumber, tomato-celery-cucumber, kidney bean-tomato-cucumber, cucumber-kidney bean-cucumber, cucumber-celery-cucumber, cucumber-tomato-cucumber, and cucumber-cucumber-cucumber. DGGE profiles of various rhizosphere soils showed six major bacterial populations: Proteobacteria, Sphingobacteria, Flavobacteria, Actinobacteria, Clostridia, and Acidobacteria. The yield of cucumber in the kidney bean-celery-cucumber rotation was higher than in other crop rotations (p < 0.05). Cucumber yield was strongly and positively correlated with soil microorganism diversity index (p < 0.01), and was also positively correlated with evenness index (p < 0.05). Our results suggest that the kidney bean-celery-cucumber rotation is suitable for cucumber cropping.
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