Effects of Pest Management Practices on Soil Nematode Abundance, Diversity, Metabolic Footprint and Community Composition Under Paddy Rice Fields

Frontiers in Plant Science
Bing YangFeng Ge

Abstract

The wide-scale adoption of transgenic crops has aroused public concern towards potential impacts to the ecological services of soil fauna, such as soil nematodes. However, few studies has examined whether the cultivation of transgenic rice would pose greater threats to soil nematode community and associated ecological functions than insecticides application. Moreover, what are determinants of soil nematode community in paddy fields remains unclear. During a 3-year field study, rhizosphere soil samples of transgenic-Bt rice, its counterpart non-Bt parental rice and not-Bt rice with insecticides application were taken at four times in the rice developmental cycle using a random block design with three replications for each treatment. We hypothesized that the effects of pest management practice on soil nematode abundance and metabolic footprint change with trophic group and sampling time. We also predicted there were significant differences in structure and composition of soil nematode community across the three treatments examined and sampling times. In agreement with our expectation, the effects of pest management practice on nematode abundance and metabolic footprints depend on trophic group and sampling time. However, pest man...Continue Reading

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