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Magdalena Frąc‡, Jacek Panek‡, Agata Gryta‡, Karolina Oszust‡, Giorgia Pertile‡, Dominika Siegieda‡, Mateusz Mącik‡, Michał Pylak‡, Shamina Imran Pathan§, Giacomo Pietramellara§|
Corresponding author: Magdalena Frąc (m.frac@ipan.lublin.pl)
Received: 01 Jul 2023 | Published: 16 Oct 2023
© 2023 Magdalena Frąc, Jacek Panek, Agata Gryta, Karolina Oszust, Giorgia Pertile, Dominika Siegieda, Mateusz Mącik, Michał Pylak, Shamina Imran Pathan, Giacomo Pietramellara
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Citation:
Frąc M, Panek J, Gryta A, Oszust K, Pertile G, Siegieda D, Mącik M, Pylak M, Imran Pathan S, Pietramellara G (2023) Legume-cereal intercropping as a strategy of regenerative agriculture supporting reverse of biodiversity loss - relevance of microbiome-based research. ARPHA Conference Abstracts 6: e108886. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.6.e108886
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Abstract
Adverse environmental impacts connceted with high chemicals and fertilizers use is one of the causes of biodiversity loss. Therefore, there is a need to looking for more natural and non-hazardous alternative approaches to make agriculture more sustain. The legume-cereal intercropping is currently one of the „hot topics” in the area of sustainable and regenerative agriculture. These intercropping practices are increasingly gaining attention as a way for enhancing soil ecosystem services and reversal biodiversity loss, as well as as a strategy of harnesing plant yield quality and soil health.
Legume-cereal systems are the most common intercropping combinations used in sustainable agriculture models because of their noncompeting niche requirements and atmospheric nitrogen fixation which improve a balance of this nutrient in soil and plant and decrease the amount of mineral fertilizers use. However, conventional crop rotations in the EU are largely dominated by cereals while legume cultivation has declined in recent years.
The idea of the LEGUMINOSE project includes that multi-species assemblages of plants deliver rhizosphere functions that are greater than the sum of the functions delivered by the rhizospheres of individual plants growing alone as a monoculture. We hypotheses that the higher plant diversity in intercropping will increase plant health, improve soil biodiversity and reduce the use of pesticides in agroecosystems. However ther is a knowledge gap concerning plant-soil-microbe interactions under root exudation from single and diverse plant assemblage and role of soil microbiomes in soil ecosystem functionality and plant production. Therefore we will focus on understanding these interactions by the microbiome research of soil and plant niches, including bulk soil, rhisozphere, roots and shoots of cereal and legume plants in order to assess the percentage of microbiota transfered between them within monocropping and intercropping fields and understand relationships of that microbiomes in plant health improvement. This project will design and implement sustainable environmental practices based on legume-cereal intercropping systems that account for the nature, impacting to global biogeosphere changes.
Research funded in the frame of Horizon Europe Programme, agreement no. Project 101082289 — LEGUMINOSE.
Keywords
intercropping, plant holobiont, soil microbiome, regenerative agriculture
Presenting author
Magdalena Frąc
m.frac@ipan.lublin.pl
Presented at
Poster
Acknowledgements
Research funded in the frame of Horizon Europe Programme, agreement no. Project 101082289 — LEGUMINOSE.
Funding program
HORIZON EUROPE PROGRAMME - Project 101082289 — LEGUMINOSE
Grant title
Legume-cereal intercropping for sustainable agriculture across Europe