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Fire enhances changes in phosphorus (P) dynamics determining potential post-fir...
Souza-Alonso, Pablo; Prats, Sergio; Merino, Agustin; Guiomar, Nuno; Guijarro, Mercedes; Madrigal, JavierSoil phosphorus (P), which is essential for ecosystem functioning, undergoes notable changes after fire. However, the extent to which fire characteristics affect P dynamics remains largely unknown. This study investigated the impact of type of fire (prescribed burning and natural wildfires) of different levels of severity on P dynamics in Mediterranean soils. Soil P concentrations in the organic layers were str...
Seed Coating with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi for Improved Field Production of...
Rocha, Inês; Duarte, Isabel; Ma, Ying; Souza-Alonso, Pablo; Látr, Aleš; Vosátka, Miroslav; Freitas, Helena; Oliveira, Rui S.Although arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are known to promote growth and yield of agricultural crops, inoculation methods for e ective scaling up from greenhouse to the field are still underexplored. The application of single or mixed beneficial AM fungal isolates is hindered by the lack of experimental reproducibility of findings at di erent scales and the cost-e ectivity of inoculation methods. Seed coating...
Seed Coating: A Tool for Delivering Beneficial Microbes to Agricultural Crops
Rocha, Inês; Ma, Ying; Souza-Alonso, Pablo; Vosátka, Miroslav; Freitas, Helena; Oliveira, Rui S.Plant beneficial microbes (PBMs), such as plant growth-promoting bacteria, rhizobia, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and Trichoderma, can reduce the use of agrochemicals and increase plant yield, nutrition, and tolerance to biotic-abiotic stresses. Yet, large-scale applications of PBM have been hampered by the high amounts of inoculum per plant or per cultivation area needed for successful colonization and conseq...
Seed Coating: A Tool for Delivering Beneficial Microbes to Agricultural Crops
Rocha, Inês; Ma, Ying; Souza-Alonso, Pablo; Vosátka, Miroslav; Freitas, Helena; Oliveira, Rui S.Plant beneficial microbes (PBMs), such as plant growth-promoting bacteria, rhizobia, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and Trichoderma, can reduce the use of agrochemicals and increase plant yield, nutrition, and tolerance to biotic-abiotic stresses. Yet, large-scale applications of PBM have been hampered by the high amounts of inoculum per plant or per cultivation area needed for successful colonization and conseq...