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27 Citations
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31 December 2023

Legumes have important nutritional and economic values, but their production faces continuous cropping obstacles that seriously affect their yield formation. In order to reduce the negative impact of the continuous cropping obstacles of legumes, it i...

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  • Open Access
98 Citations
9,110 Views
23 Pages

A Systematic Review on the Continuous Cropping Obstacles and Control Strategies in Medicinal Plants

  • Muhammad Zeeshan Ul Haq,
  • Jing Yu,
  • Guanglong Yao,
  • Huageng Yang,
  • Hafiza Amina Iqbal,
  • Hassam Tahir,
  • Hongguang Cui,
  • Ya Liu and
  • Yougen Wu

5 August 2023

Continuous cropping (CC) is a common practice in agriculture, and usually causes serious economic losses due to soil degeneration, decreased crop yield and quality, and increased disease incidence, especially in medicinal plants. Continuous cropping...

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4 Citations
1,268 Views
15 Pages

9 March 2025

In order to effectively alleviate the continuous cropping obstacles in Zanthoxylum bungeanum forests, different volume ratios of bio-organic fertilizer and microbial fertilizer were used as remediation agents to investigate their effects on phenolic...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,622 Views
13 Pages

24 March 2023

Continuous cropping obstacles (CC), typical of negative plant–soil feedback, have become a non-negligible constraint to the development of agriculture. In order to investigate the main direct drivers influencing the formation of CC soils from t...

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  • Open Access
1,307 Views
20 Pages

Biocontrol Potential of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens PP19 in Alleviating Watermelon Continuous Cropping Obstacles

  • Li Zheng,
  • Jiehao Huang,
  • Guansheng Li,
  • Quan Chen,
  • Tom Hsiang,
  • Xiulong Chen and
  • Shilian Huang

25 September 2025

Continuous cropping obstacles (CCOs) lead to a decline in yield and quality under repeated cultivation in the same farmland. Notably, CCOs caused by fusarium wilt, autotoxicity, or imbalance in rhizosphere microbial communities reduce the productivit...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,625 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2024

Radix pseudostellariae is one of the well-known genuine medicinal herbs in Fujian province, China. However, the continuous cropping obstacles with respect to R. pseudostellariae have seriously affected the sustainable utilization of medicinal resourc...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,445 Views
16 Pages

Alfalfa with Forage Crop Rotation Alleviates Continuous Alfalfa Obstacles through Regulating Soil Enzymes and Bacterial Community Structures

  • Yanxia Xu,
  • Zhuxiu Liu,
  • Zhongbao Shen,
  • Zhao Yang,
  • Xuepeng Fu,
  • Xiaolong Wang,
  • Shasha Li,
  • Hua Chai,
  • Ruoding Wang and
  • Junjie Liu
  • + 1 author

21 June 2024

Alfalfa is a perennial herbaceous forage legume that is significantly and adversely affected by monocropping. Crop rotation is the most effective measure to overcome continuous cropping obstacles. However, the mechanisms of how bacterial communities...

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450 Views
16 Pages

Extracellular Self-DNA Accumulation as a Potential Driver of Continuous Cropping Obstacle in Morchella sextelata and Morchella eximia

  • Peixin He,
  • Rujiang Wang,
  • Qi Yin,
  • Yingli Cai,
  • Wenchang Zhang,
  • Shaobo Wang,
  • Xiaofei Shi,
  • Shuhong Li and
  • Wei Liu

Continuous cropping obstacle (CCO) is becoming a major restrictive factor limiting the sustainable development of morel industry. The species-specific autotoxicity of extracellular self-DNA (esDNA) may be one of the primary drivers underlying the occ...

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Eggplant cultivation faces major challenges from continuous cropping obstacles, which degrade soil health and limit sustainable production. Microbial inoculants offer a promising strategy for addressing such issues by modifying the soil environment a...

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4 Citations
1,414 Views
18 Pages

Utilizing Microbial Inoculants to Alleviate Continuous Cropping Obstacles: Insights into the Metabolites and Transcriptomic Responses of Pinellia ternata

  • Xinyu Wang,
  • Mohammad Murtaza Alami,
  • Shuqi Gong,
  • Qinglin Cheng,
  • Chaoqun Chen,
  • Xinghui Li,
  • Shumei Zhong,
  • Zhigang He,
  • Dilin Chen and
  • Shaohua Shu
  • + 2 authors

11 March 2025

Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit is a widely used medicinal herb in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Still, its sustainable cultivation is threatened by continuous cropping obstacles, which disrupt soil ecosystems, reduce yield, and degrade quality...

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2 Citations
2,009 Views
16 Pages

Alleviating Continuous Cropping Obstacles in Celery Using Engineered Biochar: Insights into Chemical and Microbiological Aspects

  • Chia-Chia Lin,
  • Ya-Hui Chuang,
  • Fo-Ting Shen,
  • Wen-Hsin Chung,
  • Chi-Yu Chen,
  • Yu-Ting Liu,
  • Yi-Cheng Hsieh,
  • Yu-Min Tzou and
  • Shih-Hao Jien

14 November 2024

In the pursuit of environmental sustainability and food security, biochar has emerged as a promising soil conditioner to mitigate continuous cropping obstacles (CCOs). This study explored the use of engineered biochar (WP400) with high adsorption cap...

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  • Open Access
335 Views
18 Pages

Short-Term Continuous Cropping of Dioscorea polystachya Alters the Rhizosphere Soil Microbiome and Degrades Soil Fertility

  • Guoxia Liu,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Xueyan Chen,
  • Chuan Yao,
  • Qinghua Pei,
  • Zhikun Ma,
  • Guoxin Xu,
  • Xun Bu and
  • Quanfang Zhang

25 December 2025

Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya) serves as both a food crop and a traditional Chinese medicine herb, yet it suffers from severe continuous cropping obstacles, typically requiring a six-year fallow period before replanting. Long-term continuous cro...

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24 Citations
2,689 Views
11 Pages

22 February 2023

The continuous cropping obstacle has become the key factor that seriously restricts the growth, yield, and quality of Pinellia ternata. In this study, the effects of chitosan on the growth, photosynthesis, resistance, yield, and quality of the contin...

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  • Open Access
400 Views
23 Pages

Chili Pepper–Rice Rotation Alleviates Continuous-Cropping Constraints by Improving Nutrient Availability and Suppressing Pathogens via Rhizosphere Network Rewiring

  • Rong Li,
  • Ge Bai,
  • Saifei Fan,
  • Ying He,
  • Jianhe Li,
  • Zhaochen Wang,
  • Bianhong Zhang,
  • Yuanyuan Zhang,
  • Xinyun Hu and
  • Hongfei Chen
  • + 2 authors

28 January 2026

Chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is a globally significant economic crop, however long-term continuous cropping often induces multifaceted constraints including soil nutrient depletion, rhizosphere microbial imbalance, and pathogen accumulation, whi...

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450 Views
20 Pages

26 December 2025

Continuous cropping (CC) poses serious challenges to the sustainable production of Dioscorea opposita Thunb. cv. Tiegun yam. The aim of this study is to illustrate the formation mechanisms of CC obstacles by analyzing rhizosphere soil from yam fields...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,102 Views
11 Pages

20 March 2022

Replant disease caused by continuous cropping obstacles commonly occurs in a Lilium brownii consecutive monoculture. To reveal the mechanisms contributing to the continuous cropping obstacles of L. brownii, four cropping patterns (fallow, L. brownii-...

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1 Citations
1,447 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Exogenous Application of Phenolic Acid on Soil Nutrient Availability, Enzyme Activities, and Microbial Communities

  • Yi Zhou,
  • Yihang Liu,
  • Chaoqiang Jiang,
  • Zeinab El-Desouki,
  • Muhammad Riaz,
  • Chenlu Wang,
  • Xueping Zhang,
  • Jiayi Ding,
  • Zhenghao Chen and
  • Hao Xia
  • + 2 authors

Phenolic acids are important allelochemicals that contribute to obstacles in continuous cropping systems, significantly impacting soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and the composition of microbial communities. This study explored the effects of trea...

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14 Citations
2,651 Views
23 Pages

19 November 2023

Casparian strip membrane domain protein-like (CASPL) genes are key genes for the formation and regulation of the Casparian strip and play an important role in plant abiotic stress. However, little research has focused on the members, characteristics,...

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1,094 Views
17 Pages

As a rare edible mushroom, Dictyophora rubrovolvata possesses remarkable anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties. However, continuous-cropping obstacles during cultivation significantly reduce soil reuse efficiency and adversely aff...

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1 Citations
1,043 Views
23 Pages

Effects of Exogenous Methyl Jasmonate on Metabolism and Soil Activity in Chrysanthemum morifolium

  • Guimei Tang,
  • Fan Zhao,
  • Xiaoling Xiao,
  • Yingshu Peng,
  • Yuxia Zhou,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Jilong Yang,
  • Yuanzhi Xiao,
  • Yang Liu and
  • Guolin Huang
  • + 1 author

30 September 2025

Challenges significantly hinder the sustainable cultivation of tea chrysanthemum, leading to imbalances in soil nutrients, the accumulation of allelopathic phenolic acids, reduced enzymatic activity, and disruptions in rhizosphere microbial communiti...

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6 Citations
1,700 Views
16 Pages

Continuous Cropping of Patchouli Alleviate Soil Properties, Enzyme Activities, and Bacterial Community Structures

  • Muhammad Zeeshan Ul Haq,
  • Guangtao Gu,
  • Ya Liu,
  • Dongmei Yang,
  • Huageng Yang,
  • Jing Yu and
  • Yougen Wu
Plants2024, 13(24), 3481;https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13243481 
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12 December 2024

Pogostemon cablin (Patchouli), an essential medicinal plant in the Lamiaceae family, faces significant challenges under continuous cropping (CC) obstacles. This study examined the rhizospheric soil bacterial communities of patchouli under four differ...

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16 Citations
2,637 Views
14 Pages

In poplar cultivation, continuous cropping obstacles affect wood yield and soil-borne diseases, primarily due to structural changes in microbes and fungus infection. The bacterium Bacillus cereus BJS-1-3 has strong antagonistic properties against pat...

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19 Citations
3,252 Views
14 Pages

23 May 2022

The continuous cropping obstacles in poplar cultivation cause declines in wood yield and serious soil-borne diseases, mainly because of structural alterations in the microbial community and the aggregation of pathogenic fungi. Bacillus subtilis T6-1,...

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2 Citations
943 Views
17 Pages

Integration of Physiological and Comparative Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal the Toxicity Mechanism of p-Coumaric Acid on Morchella importuna

  • Qi Yin,
  • Wenchang Zhang,
  • Yingli Cai,
  • Xiaofei Shi,
  • Fuqiang Yu,
  • Jianzhuang Guo,
  • Xinhua He,
  • Peixin He and
  • Wei Liu

p-coumaric acid (p-CA) is one of the main allelochemicals of cultivable Morchella mushrooms. However, its toxicity mechanism has not been elucidated. Therefore, we used physiological and comparative transcriptomic analyses to reveal its toxicity mech...

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275 Views
19 Pages

Compartment-Specific Responses of Soil Bacteria and Metabolites to Biochar in Rhizosphere and Bulk Soils Under Continuous Cassava Cropping

  • Yanmei Zhu,
  • Xingming Qin,
  • Yundong Wei,
  • Yanjun He,
  • Xiao Du,
  • Shiyi Zhou,
  • Jianbing Zhang and
  • Ning Huang

12 February 2026

Continuous monocropping of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) often leads to soil degradation and yield decline, commonly referred to as continuous cropping obstacles (CCOs), which are closely linked to changes in soil physicochemical properties and...

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1 Citations
2,078 Views
24 Pages

10 August 2025

Continuous planting results in a higher occurrence rate of oriental melon Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis (FOM), and treatment with Trichoderma can considerably alleviate the incidence of disease. However, the tripartite int...

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13 Citations
3,398 Views
19 Pages

17 March 2024

Panax notoginseng (Sanqi) is a precious traditional Chinese medicine that is commonly cultivated using conventional management methods in agricultural systems in Yunnan, China, where it faces the challenge of continuous cropping obstacles (CCOs). How...

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1 Citations
1,863 Views
16 Pages

Study on the Temperature and Water Distribution of Hot Air in Red Loam Based on Soil Continuous Cropping Obstacles

  • Zhenjie Yang,
  • Muhammad Ameen,
  • Yilu Yang,
  • Anyan Xue,
  • Junyu Chen,
  • Junyou Yang,
  • Pengcheng Fang,
  • Yu Lai,
  • Junqian Liu and
  • Yijie Zhang
  • + 1 author

In recent years, the problematic circumstances of the constant cropping problem in facility crops have become increasingly serious. Compared to chemical disinfection, soil steam disinfestation offers the benefits of environmental protection and being...

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1 Citations
1,772 Views
18 Pages

12 June 2025

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) continuous cropping reduces yield and quality, but the effects of specific rotation methods on yield and endophytic bacterial colonization remain unclear. Based on five years of continuous cropping trial data, three diffe...

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6 Citations
1,799 Views
15 Pages

Microecological Shifts in the Rhizosphere of Perennial Large Trees and Seedlings in Continuous Cropping of Poplar

  • Junkang Sui,
  • Chenyu Li,
  • Yinping Wang,
  • Xiangyu Li,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Xuewen Hua,
  • Xunli Liu and
  • Hui Qi

The cultivation of poplar trees is hindered by persistent cropping challenges, resulting in reduced wood productivity and increased susceptibility to soil-borne diseases. These issues primarily arise from alterations in microbial structure and the in...

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72 Citations
9,496 Views
15 Pages

Long-Term Monoculture Negatively Regulates Fungal Community Composition and Abundance of Tea Orchards

  • Yasir Arafat,
  • Muhammad Tayyab,
  • Muhammad Umar Khan,
  • Ting Chen,
  • Hira Amjad,
  • Saadia Awais,
  • Xiangmin Lin,
  • Wenxiong Lin and
  • Sheng Lin

19 August 2019

Continuous cropping frequently leads to soil acidification and major soil-borne diseases in tea plants, resulting in low tea yield. We have limited knowledge about the effects of continuous tea monoculture on soil properties and the fungal community....

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931 Views
18 Pages

Dual Benefits of Endophytic Bacillus velezensis Amzn015: Growth Promotion and Root Rot Control in Atractylodes macrocephala

  • Na Zhu,
  • Jiongyi Wu,
  • Sen Fan,
  • Qingling Meng,
  • Shijie Dai,
  • Mingjiang Mao,
  • Weichun Zhao and
  • Xiaofeng Yuan

Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz. (A. macrocephala), a medicinal plant extensively used in traditional Chinese medicine, is greatly susceptible to root rot under continuous monoculture, leading to serious yield and quality losses. To develop a sustain...

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24 Citations
3,174 Views
14 Pages

11 April 2023

The continuous cropping can restrict the large scale and intensive cultivation of muskmelon, and the use of Trichoderma preparation to alleviate the negative effects is an effective mean. Although the impact on rhizosphere soil microbial communities...

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5 Citations
2,512 Views
19 Pages

Assembly of Tomato Rhizobacteria from Different Functional Groups Improves Seedling Photosynthesis and Growth

  • Yi Zhao,
  • Yingqi Hong,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Yirong Gou,
  • Rensen Zeng,
  • Qianrong Zhang,
  • Dongmei Chen and
  • Yuanyuan Song

28 November 2023

The rhizosphere harbors abundant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) that are vital for plant health. In this study, we screened growth-promoting bacteria from tomato rhizosphere soil, verified their functions, and constructed the optimal com...

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6 Citations
2,561 Views
15 Pages

The additions of microbial organic fertilizer (MOF), a microbial inoculant (MI), and quicklime (Q) are considered to be sustainable practices to restore land that has been damaged by continuous cropping of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). However, the co...

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6 Citations
1,988 Views
14 Pages

Continuous cropping problems constitute threats to perennial plant health and survival. Soil conditioners have the potential to enhance plant disease resistance in continuous cropping systems. However, how microbes and metabolites of the rhizosphere...

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11 Citations
4,708 Views
25 Pages

15 October 2024

Greenhouse vegetable production has become increasingly important in meeting the increasing global food demand. Yet, it faces severe challenges in terms of how to maintain soil productivity from a long-term perspective. This review discusses the main...

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3 Citations
1,391 Views
18 Pages

20 August 2025

Due to limited land resources and traditional farming practices, continuous cassava cropping is common in China. This practice leads to soil degradation, including reduced fertility, imbalanced microbial communities, and lower crop yields. In this st...

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394 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Autotoxicity and Allelopathy on Seedling Growth in Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.)

  • Esther Dansoa Tetteh,
  • Kwame Sarpong Appiah,
  • Christiana Amoatey,
  • Clepton Antwi Korsah,
  • Ransford Ampofo,
  • Ernest Kobina Aidan and
  • Yoshiharu Fujii

12 February 2026

Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.), a vital tropical cash crop, may face yield declines in old plantations due to unexplored risks of autotoxicity. This study investigated the allelopathic and autotoxic potential of cashew plant under laboratory and...

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1 Citations
1,553 Views
20 Pages

13 February 2025

Casparian strip integrity factors (CIFs), which are tyrosine-sulfated small peptides, are crucial genes involved in the formation and regulation of the Casparian strip and play an important role in the regulation of plant stress response. In order to...

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5 Citations
2,116 Views
15 Pages

TMT-Based Proteomic Analysis of Continuous Cropping Response in Codonopsis tangshen Oliv.

  • Xiaogang Jiang,
  • Wuxian Zhou,
  • Hua Wang,
  • Jinwen You,
  • Wenlu Liu and
  • Meide Zhang

13 March 2023

The growth and development of Codonopsis tangshen, an important herb used in Chinese traditional medicine, have been seriously affected by continuous cropping obstacles. Therefore, understanding the molecular responses of C. tangshen to continuous cr...

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4 Citations
1,409 Views
15 Pages

Integrated Microbiology and Metabolomics Analysis Reveal How Tolerant Soybean Cultivar Adapt to Continuous Cropping

  • Xingdong Yao,
  • Dexin He,
  • Xiang Zhao,
  • Zhuorui Tan,
  • Hongtao Zhao,
  • Futi Xie and
  • Jingkuan Wang

14 February 2025

Soybean continuous cropping could alter soil microbial communities, leading to the development of continuous-cropping obstacles that negatively impacted yield. Different soybean cultivars exhibited varying degrees of resistance to these obstacles. Ho...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,721 Views
17 Pages

Continuous Cropping Changes the Composition and Diversity of Bacterial Communities: A Meta-Analysis in Nine Different Fields with Different Plant Cultivation

  • Mohammad Murtaza Alami,
  • Qiuling Pang,
  • Zedan Gong,
  • Tewu Yang,
  • Daiqun Tu,
  • Ouyang Zhen,
  • Weilong Yu,
  • Mohammad Jawad Alami and
  • Xuekui Wang

3 December 2021

Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis Franch.) represents one of the most important medicinal plants with diverse medicinal applications, but it easily suffers from continuous cropping obstacles in the plantation. In this study, we have selected eight...

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996 Views
23 Pages

Dictyophora rubrovalvata is a soil-cultivated edible fungus with high economic and medicinal value, yet its continuous cultivation is frequently hindered by cropping obstacles. To elucidate the underlying ecological mechanisms, this study employed me...

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31 Citations
4,180 Views
18 Pages

Effects of the Continuous Cropping of Amomum villosum on Rhizosphere Soil Physicochemical Properties, Enzyme Activities, and Microbial Communities

  • Butian Wang,
  • Yunfeng Lu,
  • Weifeng Li,
  • Suming He,
  • Rong Lin,
  • Peng Qu,
  • Hongmei Chen,
  • Fengying Zhang,
  • Meng Zhao and
  • Yu Ge
  • + 3 authors

18 October 2022

Amomum villosum, which is an important perennial medicinal plant, easily suffers from continuous cropping obstacles in the plantation. The aim of this study is to find an effective method to solve the problem of A. villosum continuous cropping. In th...

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1 Citations
1,086 Views
17 Pages

Continuous Cropping Duration Alters Green Pepper Root Exudate Composition and Triggers Rhizosphere Feedback Inhibition

  • Zhou Li,
  • Dongmei Lian,
  • Shaoping Zhang,
  • Yunfa Yao,
  • Bizhen Lin,
  • Jianji Hong,
  • Songhai Wu and
  • Honghong Li

21 August 2025

Continuous cropping poses a significant threat to sustainable pepper production by triggering soil degradation and growth inhibition, yet the role of root exudates in this process remains unclear. This study aimed to elucidate how continuous cropping...

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17 Citations
2,999 Views
12 Pages

10 June 2021

Soybean is the major food and oil crop in the world. However, soybean continuous cropping can significantly reduce soybean yield. In this study, the effects of Rhizophagus intraradices on soybean growth and the composition of microbial communities in...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,384 Views
12 Pages

Effects of Continuous Cropping on Bacterial Community and Diversity in Rhizosphere Soil of Industrial Hemp: A Five-Year Experiment

  • Li Guo,
  • Xiangwei Chen,
  • Zeyu Li,
  • Mingze Wang,
  • Ye Che,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Zeyu Jiang and
  • Siyuan Jie

28 March 2022

Long-term continuous monoculture cultivation harms soil physicochemical and microbial communities in agricultural practices. However, little has been reported on the effect of continuous cropping of industrial hemp on bacterial community and diversit...

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4 Citations
957 Views
17 Pages

30 October 2025

Continuous cropping of morel represents a crucial bottleneck that restricts the sustainable development of its industry. To explore the effects and mechanisms of crop rotations in alleviating continuous cropping obstacles, field experiments were cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,683 Views
16 Pages

A Chinese Herbal Compound Fertilizer Improved the Soil Bacterial Community and Promoted the Quality of Chrysanthemum morifolium ‘Huangju’

  • Hongliang Li,
  • Hongyao Qu,
  • Huaqiang Xuan,
  • Bei Liu,
  • Lixiang Zhu,
  • Xianchao Shang,
  • Yi Xie,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Long Yang and
  • Xin Hou
  • + 3 authors

21 June 2025

Chrysanthemum morifolium, ‘Huangju’, is a golden chrysanthemum used for making tea. Limited by land resources, the continuous cropping of Chrysanthemum morifolium ‘Huangju’ has led to serious soil issues, which affects its yie...

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