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Bacterial and fungal OTU richness declined, especially in year five.
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Ipomoea batatasVerbatim
e0“richness analysis indicated a significant decrease in the total number of OTUs for both bacteria and fungi, especially in the fifth year”
e1“Sweet potato ( Ipomoea batatas L.)”
e2“1, 3, and 5 years of consecutive sweet potato monoculture”
Title
Can Chen; Yini Shi; Manman Zheng; et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 2026. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2026.1747390
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Bacterial diversity and homogeneity exceeded fungal diversity and homogeneity.
- Association Firmicutes declined under consecutive sweet potato monoculture.
- Association Parcubacteria declined under consecutive sweet potato monoculture.
- Association Cryptomycota increased under consecutive sweet potato monoculture.
- Observation Predicted prokaryotic phenotypes and functions changed significantly.
- Observation The analysis found alterations in human pathogens and Cyanobacteria.
- Observation The analysis found differences in soil carbon metabolism and nitrogen conversion.
- Association Soil organic matter, total carbon and total nitrogen correlated linearly with Cyanobacteria abundance.
- Association Sweet potato yield was positively correlated with soil pH.
- Association Sweet potato yield was negatively correlated with disease incidence.