Shifts in microbial community after passage through the gut of endogeic earthworm fed on pesticide-contained rhizosphere soil. soil

To summarize, the results may unveiling the quantitative and qualitative interplay between microorganisms focusing around stubble crops roots and earthworms as a regenerating factors of the soil during the cereal monoculture. The main goal of the study was to determine changes of microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) biodiversity in fresh coprolites of endogeic earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa. The food consists of soil from buckwheat rhizosphere grown on the stand where pesticides were used in triticale monoculture for four years. In contrast, the earthworms were acquired from the pesticides-free stands where buckwheat were sown annually as a stubble crop interrupting the triticale monoculture (cultivated in natural strips cropping system). The results may reveal more insights into earthworms role in shaping soil microorganisms community in the pesticide-contained agricultural soil, as well as their food preferences regarding the soil microorganisms. To summarize, the results may unveiling the quantitative and qualitative interplay between microorganisms focusing around stubble crops roots and earthworms as a regenerating factors of the soil during the cereal monoculture.