64-Cropping practices manipulate abundance pattern

64-Cropping practices manipulate abundance patterns of root and soil microbiome members paving the way to smart farming.RESEARCHOpenAccessCroppingpracticesmanipulateabundancepatternsofrootandsoilmicrobiomememberspavingthewaytosmartfarmingKyleHartman1,2,MarcelG.A.vanderHeijden1,2,4,RaphaëlA.Wittwer1,SamiranBanerjee1,Jean-ClaudeWalser3andKlausSchlaeppi1*AbstractBackground:Harnessingbeneficialmicrobespresentsapromisingstrategytooptimizeplantgrowthandagriculturalsustainability.Littleisknowntowhichextentandhowspecificallysoilandplantmicrobiomescanbemanipulatedthroughdifferentcroppingpractices.Here,weinvestigatedsoilandwheatrootmicrobialcommunitiesinacroppingsystemexperimentconsistingofconventionalandorganicmanagements,bothwithdifferenttillageintensities.Results:Whilemicrobialrichnesswasmarginallyaffected,wefoundpronouncedcroppingeffectsoncommunitycomposition,whichwerespecificfortherespectivemicrobiomes.Soilbacterialcommunitieswereprimarilystructuredbytillage,whereassoilfungalcommunitiesresp