Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal (AMF) Community During Crop Rotation, Lüneburg, Germany - Metadata

The dataset reports the associated metadata table of samples from a two growing-season mesocosm experiment mimicking a crop rotation, with a first phase growing AM or non-AM and/or rhizobial or non rhizobial precrops followed with an AM crop. A treatment of high carbon amendment was also applied. We used four plant species to have a combination of all symbiotic groups: spring canola (Brassica napus cv. Medicus, NPZ, non-rhizobial / non-AM), withe lupine (Lupinus albus cv. Energy, Feldsaaten Freudenberger, rhizobial / non-AM), spring barley (Hordeum vulgare cv. Barke, Saatzucht Breun, non rhizobial/AM) faba bean (Vicia faba cv. Tiffany, NPZ, rhizobial / AM). The amendment was no amendment, wheat straw or saw dust. The succeeding crop was winter barley (Hordeum vulgare, cv. Antonella, Nordsaat Saatzucht, non-rhizobial / AM). The table reports the timing phase of sampling (t0 = original soil used for the experiment, t1 = soil sample after the precrop growth and harvest, t2 = soil and root samples after the growth / harvest of the crop), the precrop identity, the high carbon amendment, whether samples are from roots or soil. The associated paper is : Legacy effects of pre-crop plant functional group on fungal root symbionts of barley; Ecological Application.

Research domain: Soil Sciences

Research question: Do precrops have a legacy effect on the root fungal symbiont of the next crop?