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Different crop rotation systems as drivers of change in soil bacterial community structure and yield of rice, Oryza sativa

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Intensive cropping, especially of rice, is considered to contribute to negative effects not only on soil chemical and biological properties but also on long-term grain yield. Appropriate crop rotation is often practiced as an alternative strategy to overcome the negative side effects of intensive cropping. Although soil microbial diversity and community structure have been shown to respond differently to altered agricultural management practices, little is known about possible links between crop rotation and grain yield on bacterial communities in rice paddy soil. In this study, we investigated the impact of specific rotational crops and compared it with intensive rice cultivation. The main crop rice (Oryza sativa) was rotated with maize (Zea mays) and mungbean (Phaseolus aureus) in different combinations in a system cultivating three crops per year. Soil bacterial communities were studied in two different cropping periods using pyrosequencing of the variable V4 region of the 16S rRNA. Our results showed that rotation with alternative crops increased rice yield by 24–46% depending on rotation structure and that bacterial community structure was altered in the presence of mungbean and/or maize compared to that in rice monoculture. In the crop rotation systems, composition, abundance, and diversity of soil bacterial communities were significantly different and higher than those in rice monoculture. Our results show that effects of crop rotation relate to changes in soil bacterial community structure suggesting that appropriate crop rotations provide a feasible practice to maintain the equilibrium in soil microbial environment for sustainable rice cultivation.

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Abbreviations

RRR:

Rice–rice–rice treatment

RMR:

Rice–maize–rice treatment

RMgR:

Rice–mungbean–rice treatment

RMgM:

Rice–mungbean–rice treatment

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Acknowledgements

We thankfully acknowledge the co-operative project between Ghent University, Belgium and Cantho University, Vietnam (VLIR-IUC- R3-project) for permission to take soil samples and to utilize the rice yield data from the long-term field experiment. This study was funded by the Swedish Institute, Stockholm and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. We thank Dr. Ihrmark Katarina for her supervision in the lab. Thanks are also due to necessary facilities at the Soil Science and at the Biotechnology Institute of Cantho University, Vietnam.

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  1. Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala Biocenter, Box 7026, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden

    Do Thi Xuan, Anna Rosling, Sadhna Alström & Nils Högberg

  2. Department of Soil Science, Cantho University, Cantho, Vietnam

    Vo Thi Guong

  3. Centre of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Benli Chai

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Xuan, D.T., Guong, V.T., Rosling, A. et al. Different crop rotation systems as drivers of change in soil bacterial community structure and yield of rice, Oryza sativa . Biol Fertil Soils 48, 217–225 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-011-0618-5

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