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Effects of continuous cucumber cropping on crop quality and soil fungal community

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Long-term continuous cropping is a common practice in facility vegetable production, which has an adverse effect on cucumber yield and quality. Soil fungi are of great significance for creating a normal soil ecological environment. However, the impact of continuous cropping on cucumber quality and soil fungal community has yet to be understood. In this study, we evaluated the effects of continuous cropping on cucumber using high-throughput sequencing technology. The results showed that the extension of continuous cropping would increase nitrate and total acidity of cucumber, while the contents of vitamin C (VC), soluble sugar, and protein were decreased. The increase of continuous cropping duration also reduced the fungal diversity of the cucumber soil. For example, the activity of three dominant fungal phylums, Ascomycota, Aphelidiomycota, and Basidiomycota, decreased with the extension of planting years. The relative abundance of the two fungi species (Remersonia_thermophila, Mortierella_oligospora) was negatively correlated with the contents of available phosphorus and available potassium (P < 0.05). Redundancy analysis (RDA) found that soil electrical conductivity (EC), available phosphorus (AP), and pH accounted for the top three major factors of fungal community structure changes. The soil fungal community was changed during the continuous cucumber cultivation, which might be the result of the combined cultivation period of cucumber and excessive application of chemical fertilizers (nitrogen fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer, etc.). Our study provides a theoretical basis for the understanding of the impact of continuous cropping in cucumber facilities.

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This work was supported by the Agricultural Scientific and Technological Innovation Project of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CXGC2021A28, CXGC2021A47, CXGC2021A35); Agriculture Industrial Technology System Funding of Shandong Province of China (SDAIT-05-07); Prospect of Shandong Seed Project, China (2016LCGC035); Jinan TopTen Agricultural Characteristic Industry Science and Technology Innovation Team, and China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA.

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  1. Institute of Vegetables and FlowersShandong Branch of National Improvement Center for VegetablesShandong Key Laboratory of Greenhouse Vegetable Biology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Huang-Huai-Hai Region Scientific Observation and Experimental Station of Vegetables, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, People’s Republic of China

    Kaining Sun, Dan Wen, Ning Yang, Xiao Wang & Kean Wang

  2. Institute of Agricultural Resource and Environment, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, People’s Republic of China

    Longyun Fu

  3. CAS Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, 71 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008, People’s Republic of China

    Yang Song

  4. Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, People’s Republic of China

    Liang Yuan

  5. College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266109, People’s Republic of China

    Haoran Zhang & Yaoquan Yue

  6. National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, 271018, People’s Republic of China

    Xuhua Li

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Sun, K., Fu, L., Song, Y. et al. Effects of continuous cucumber cropping on crop quality and soil fungal community. Environ Monit Assess 193, 436 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09136-5

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