Abstract
BACKGROUND: Long-term drastic anthropic inputs in conventional monoculture systems cause negative plant-soil feedback that will largely affect sustainable cucumber cultivation. The inclusion of multicropping in intensive cropping systems could reduce the detrimental effects of continuous cropping obstacles. The present study investigated the dynamics of soil microbial communities, soil enzyme activities and cucumber yield under plastic tunnel cultivation for three successive growing seasons (2013, 2014 and 2015). RESULT: In the amended crop rotation system, soil pH decreased with increasing number of cropped garlic bulbs. The soil electrical conductivity significantly changed during the entire growth period and increased with increasing number of incorporated garlic bulbs. The level of soil organic matter content increased in the last year (2015). Soil catalase activity was generally induced by the treatments of 10, 15, 20 and 25 garlic bulbs, and soil invertase activity was also enhanced by all the treatments in the last year. Similarly, fungal species richness dramatically increased under these crop rotation systems. In this study, we found the highest cucumber yield under the cropping treatment of 20 garlic bulbs. CONCLUSION: The results indicate that the green garlic/cucumber cropping system is a sustainable and efficient cropping system for cucumber production and can improve the soil environment to a certain extent. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry.
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Claim · model-written summary
Soil pH declined as cropped garlic bulbs increased.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- increasing number of cropped garlic bulbse0
- Outcome
- soil pHe0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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e0“soil pH decreased with increasing number of cropped garlic bulbs”
t0“garlic/cucumber crop rotation”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil electrical conductivity increased with incorporated garlic bulbs.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- increasing number of incorporated garlic bulbse0
- Outcome
- soil electrical conductivitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“The soil electrical conductivity significantly changed during the entire growth period and increased with increasing number of incorporated garlic bulbs.”
t0“garlic/cucumber crop rotation”
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Soil organic matter increased in 2015.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Outcome
- soil organic matter contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- 2015e0
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Verbatim
e0“The level of soil organic matter content increased in the last year (2015).”
t0“garlic/cucumber crop rotation”
Claim · model-written summary
Treatments with 10, 15, 20 and 25 garlic bulbs generally induced soil catalase activity.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- treatments of 10, 15, 20 and 25 garlic bulbse0
- Outcome
- Soil catalase activitye0
- Direction
- inducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Soil catalase activity was generally induced by the treatments of 10, 15, 20 and 25 garlic bulbs”
t0“garlic/cucumber crop rotation”
Claim · model-written summary
All garlic treatments enhanced soil invertase activity in the last year.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- all the treatmentse0
- Outcome
- soil invertase activitye0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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Verbatim
e0“soil invertase activity was also enhanced by all the treatments in the last year”
t0“garlic/cucumber crop rotation”
Claim · model-written summary
Fungal species richness increased under the rotations.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- crop rotation systemse0
- Outcome
- fungal species richnesse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“fungal species richness dramatically increased under these crop rotation systems”
t0“garlic/cucumber crop rotation”
Claim · model-written summary
Cucumber yield was highest with 20 garlic bulbs.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativuse0
- Treatment
- cropping treatment of 20 garlic bulbse0
- Outcome
- cucumber yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Verbatim
e0“the highest cucumber yield under the cropping treatment of 20 garlic bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
Authors concluded the garlic cucumber system is sustainable and can improve the soil environment.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativuse0
- Outcome
- sustainable and efficient cropping system for cucumber productione0
- Qualifier
- can improve the soil environment to a certain extente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the green garlic/cucumber cropping system is a sustainable and efficient cropping system for cucumber production and can improve the soil environment to a certain extent”
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