Cover crop composition drives changes in the abundance and diversity of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in citrus orchards with critical effects on N2O emissions

We examined the effect of replacing the traditional weedy row middle of a commercial Florida citrus orchard with two different mixtures of CCs: legumes and non-legumes (LG + NL) and non-legumes only (NL) compared to a grower standard control (GSC) on amoA, nirK and nosZI communities