Effect of rotation breaks and organic matter amendments on the capacity of soils to develop biological suppression towards soil organisms associated with yield decline of sugarcane

Pankhurst, C. E., Blair, B. L., Magarey, R. C., Stirling, G. R., Bell, M. J. and Garside, A. L. (2005) Effect of rotation breaks and organic matter amendments on the capacity of soils to develop biological suppression towards soil organisms associated with yield decline of sugarcane. Applied Soil Ecology, 28 3: 271-282.


Author Pankhurst, C. E.
Blair, B. L.
Magarey, R. C.
Stirling, G. R.
Bell, M. J.
Garside, A. L.
Title Effect of rotation breaks and organic matter amendments on the capacity of soils to develop biological suppression towards soil organisms associated with yield decline of sugarcane
Journal name Applied Soil Ecology  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank B)   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 2005-03
Sub-type Article
Year available 2004
DOI 10.1016/j.apsoil.2004.07.010
Volume number 28
Issue number 3
ISSN 0929-1393; 1873-0272
Start page 271
End page 282
Total pages 12
Place of publication Amsterdam, Netherlands
Publisher Elsevier BV
Language eng
Abstract A plant bioassay was developed to test the capacity of soil to suppress the activity of detrimental soil organisms associated with yield decline (YD) of sugarcane. The bioassay utilised the diseased roots of sugarcane plants growing in soil that had been under continuous sugarcane monoculture for more than 20 years, as the source of soil organisms associated with YD. Single-eye sugarcane setts were planted into pots of fumigated sand containing 2% (w/w) diseased roots and 10% (w/w) of the test soil. Suppression was measured as the capacity of the added test soil to block the detrimental effect of soil organisms associated with YD on plant growth. The bioassay indicated that a soil that had been under a pasture break for 7 years had increased biological suppression towards soil organisms associated with YD compared to a soil that had been under continuous sugarcane. There was little difference in suppression between sugarcane soils that had been under a soybean break for 1 year, a cropped soil that had never grown sugarcane and the soil that had been under continuous sugarcane. In contrast, a rainforest soil was found to have less suppression than the continuous sugarcane soil. Incorporation of organic amendments into a sugarcane soil (including sawdust, cane trash, grass hay, lucerne hay, feedlot manure, poultry manure, chitin and mill mud) initially increased fungal and bacterial populations, microbial activity (FDA hydrolysis) and microbial biomass. Plant bioassay tests of the amended soils 1, 7 and 12 months after the incorporation of the amendments indicated that the amendments generally had only a minor effect on the soils capacity to suppress soil organisms associated with YD.
Keyword Sugarcane
Yield decline
Plant bioassay
Soil organisms
Q-Index Code C1
Q-Index Status Provisional Code
Institutional Status Non-UQ
Additional Notes Available online 17 September 2004

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