Intercropping with garlic alleviated continuous cropping obstacle of cucumber in plastic tunnel

Xiao, Xuemei; Cheng, Zhihui; Meng, Huanwen; Khan, Muhammad Azam; Li, Hezi

doi:10.1080/09064710.2012.697571

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“…It indicated that the green garlic/cucumber cropping system is an efficient cropping system for sustainable cucumber production and can alleviate soil sickness to some extent. The results were supported by previous findings that multi-cropping with garlic had a stimulatory effect on the growth and yield of eggplant, tomato, and cucumber [39,44,59]. However, the yields of green garlic decreased with the increasing number of green garlic bulbs planted in the crop rotation system, which confirmed the guideline that yields of garlic linearly respond to plant density in that yield decreases with the increase in plant density [60,61].…”

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“…Agricultural soil management practices and cropping systems can directly affect the fungal community composition, as reported by numerous authors [49,[65][66][67][68]. Continuous cropping under a protected cultivation system is becoming an unrealistic approach, which considerably affects the biomass and activity of soil microorganisms unless the cropping pattern is modified [44,69,70]. The population and diversity of selective fungal communities are linked to soil sickness and are associated with continuous obstacles of cucumber cultivation [71].…”

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“…Moreover, functional diversity in microbial populations is also significantly restricted by continuous cropping obstacles, which is unacceptable for the sustainable production of vegetable crops [2][3][4]. Therefore, cultivation [38,39,44]. Unfortunately, no scientific reports have studied the variation of soil microbial diversity in a garlic rotation system by using modern biological tools.…”

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Dynamics of a Soil Fungal Community in a Three-Year Green Garlic/Cucumber Crop Rotation System in Northwest China

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Abstract:A decreased soil biological environment in terms of an unstable microbial population and diversity index is primarily caused by intensive continuous cropping systems. In this study, a crop rotation system was established to evaluate the soil fungal diversity using a pyrosequencing-based analysis during three successive growing seasons (2013, 2014, and 2015) under a field pot investigation. We found that overall green garlic/cucumber rotational effects increased cucumber productivity under these growing practices. Analysis of fungal communities in rhizosphere soils by high-throughput pyrosequencing showed that the estimated treatment effects were more obvious during the three-year trials, and OTU richness was much higher than the control in cucumber-planted soils. The relative frequencies of fungal diversity showed variable responses before and after rotation practices, and mainly α-diversity of fungi increased in garlic planted soil and again decreased after cucumber planted soil in each year. The phylogenetic classification illustrated that the fungal communities were dominated by the taxa Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota, Glomeromycota, and Zygomycota across all samples. Particularly, the relative abundance of the taxon Ascomycota was largely and predominantly enriched with the increasing number of garlic bulbs during the three years. Moreover, the majority of abundant taxa positively correlated with available P and K contents, while being highly negatively correlated with soil pH, EC, and SOC. These results indicate that garlic-cucumber-based crop rotations induce fungal richness and diversity and promote the sustainability of agricultural ecosystems, thus enhancing crop growth and production.

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“…It is indicative of soil quality changes that occur due to management practices, and it can also be used to monitor soil microbial activity that is related to nutrient transformation [29,30]. Xiao et al concluded that the activities of soil invertase, urease, and alkaline phosphatase were promoted in an intercropping system, when compared with those in a monoculture cropping system, and that the stimulation of urease and alkaline phosphatase activity from intercropped garlic was maintained until the garlic harvest [31].…”

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Effects of Continuous Tomato Monoculture on Soil Microbial Properties and Enzyme Activities in a Solar Greenhouse

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Soil-related obstacles resulting from continuous monoculture have limited the sustainable development of the tomato industry in China. An experiment on tomatoes with seven continuous monoculture treatments (the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th crops, respectively) was conducted in a solar greenhouse, to investigate the influence of monoculture on soil quality. Most soil quality indicators first increased and then decreased with increasing continuous monoculture crops, and significant differences among crops were observed. Indicators at the 13th crop were significantly lower than those at the other crops in terms of average well color development (AWCD), substrate richness (S), the Shannon diversity index (H), and the McIntosh index (U) of the soil microbial community (SMC), soil urease (UR), and neutral phosphatase (N-PHO) activities, and available nitrogen (AN) and potassium (AK). However, fungal abundance (FUN) at the 13th crop was significantly higher than that at the other crops. As principal component analysis (PCA) revealed, SMC functional diversity at the 1st, 11th, and 13th crops were similar, and were obviously distinguished from those at the other crops. Moreover, the tomato yield was significantly and positively correlated with soil-available potassium and SMC functional diversity indexes. Our findings indicated that short-term continuous monoculture, e.g., for fewer than seven or nine crops, was beneficial for soil quality improvement. However, continuous monoculture for greater than 11 crops had adverse effects on soil enzyme activities, soil microbial abundances, soil chemical properties, soil SMC functional diversity, and the tomato yield, particularly at the 13th crop.

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“…Some studies have reported that garlic intercropping can prevent insect attack (Mogahed, 2003, Lai et al, 2011 and weed invasion (Mueller et al, 1998). Recent research demonstrated that intercropping with garlic, green garlic (Xiao et al, 2012) and onion (Zhou et al, 2011) can alleviate problems associated with continuous cropping (soil sickness) of cucumbers under protected cultivation. However, most attention has been directed to the yield and growth parameters, as well as soil biological characteristics.…”

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Effect of Intercropping Practices of Globe Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) with Garlic (Allium sativum L.), N-rates and Biofertilizers on Growth, Productivity, Land Equivalent Ratio and Microbiological Properties in Globe Artichoke Rhizosphere

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Intercropping with garlic alleviated continuous cropping obstacle of cucumber in plastic tunnel

Cited by 52 publications

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Dynamics of a Soil Fungal Community in a Three-Year Green Garlic/Cucumber Crop Rotation System in Northwest China

Dynamics of a Soil Fungal Community in a Three-Year Green Garlic/Cucumber Crop Rotation System in Northwest China

Effects of Continuous Tomato Monoculture on Soil Microbial Properties and Enzyme Activities in a Solar Greenhouse

Effect of Intercropping Practices of Globe Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) with Garlic (Allium sativum L.), N-rates and Biofertilizers on Growth, Productivity, Land Equivalent Ratio and Microbiological Properties in Globe Artichoke Rhizosphere

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