Forage grasses cover crops of rice and maize to steer nitrogen processes and microbiome to mitigate greenhouse gases emissions in long-term tropical agriculture system

The aim of this research is to understand how cover crop species combined with different times of N application affect the cover crop straw, nutrition and productivity of cash crop, soil chemical properties and soil microbial composition and function in a holistic approach of the entire agricultural system under tropical no-till system (Fig. 1). Focus is on microbiome that immediately respond to the N application disturbances and in a long period to the plant cultivation, N inputs and soil properties changes. We use 3-year field experiment with palisade grass and ruzigrass cover crops and subsequent maize cash crop combined with different N management strategies to quantify the microbial genes of the N cycle and the bacterial and fungal communities’ structure and composition in the agricultural system.  

• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2022.126485
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107688
• https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-021-10158-1
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115423
• https://doi.org/10.1007/s10705-020-10088-4