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Exploring plant growth promoting rhizobacteria potential for green agriculture system to optimize sweet potato productivity and soil sustainability in northern Jiangsu, China

European Journal of Agronomy, ISSN: 1161-0301, Vol: 142, Page: 126661
2023
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    9
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  • Captures
    37
  • Mentions
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    • News Mentions
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Research Data from Nanjing Agricultural University Update Understanding of Sustainability Research (Exploring Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Potential for Green Agriculture System To Optimize Sweet Potato Productivity and Soil ...)

2022 DEC 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Daily China News -- Current study results on Sustainability Research have been published.

Article Description

The beneficial effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on crop growth and yield have been widely recognized. However, the application of PGPR in traditional planting systems is often restricted due to the concerns about the incompatibility between PGPR and chemical agricultural inputs. The aim of this study is to test whether the application of PGPR has a beneficial effect on the productivity and sustainability of the green planting system, where the use of low-toxic chemical pesticides and proper amount of chemical fertilizer is allowed. In the current study, field trials of four agriculture systems: green agriculture system, green agriculture system supplemented with beneficial microorganism consortium, organic agriculture system supplemented with the consortium and the control system, were carried out with white, yellow and purple flesh sweet potato varieties. The application of PGPR increased the plant growth and suppressed the stem nematode disease in green system. As a consequence, PGPR increased the yield by 26.44% and raised the farmers’ projected returns in green system on an average of the two-year assessment. Moreover, PGPR promoted the product nutritive quality by 7.51% in soluble sugar and 14.30% in vitamin C content, and also increased the anthocyanin content of the purple sweet potato by 10.73%. Exogenous PGPR significantly retarded the depletion of soil fertility during the crop cultivation, promoted the soil bacterial diversity and altered the bacteria community structure. PGPR treatment increased the relative abundances of Pseudomonas and Lysobacter in the rhizosphere soil, while reduced the amounts of Erwinia and Ralstonia. The changes of soil nutrient and microbes were correlated with the application of exogenous beneficial bacteria regardless of in organic or green agriculture system. Here, we showed the ability of PGPR to efficiently improve the productivity in green agriculture system under the tested condition, and provided evidence for the feasibility of using exogenous PGPR to achieve agricultural sustainability by constructing a positive feedback in crop-soil-microbe interactions.

Bibliographic Details

Yi-Yang Yu; Jing-Da Xu; Mei-Zhen Gao; Tao-Xiang Huang; Ying Zheng; Yi-Yuan Zhang; Yun-Peng Wang; Yu-Ming Luo; Ying Zhang; Yong-Hong Hu; Jian-Hua Guo; Chun-Hao Jiang

Elsevier BV

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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