Organic farming significantly improves microbial community structure, network complexity, and functional diversity in the Gannan navel orange orchard
These findings provide evidence that organic farming improves the bacterial community structure and promotes microbial functional diversity in the citrus orchards, contributing to the overall health and production of the citrus crop. Synthetic microbial communities of the organic citrus orchards hold great promise for more efficient environment-friendly orchard management towards sustainable agriculture.
Authors
- Muhammad Atif Muneer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6673-7158)
- Xuexian Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0863-9250)
- Lianlian Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4385-3815)
- Boyi He
- Yanting Zhong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-0647)
Institutions
- China Agricultural University (CN)
- Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Microbiology
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-025-04271-2
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Plant and animal studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.05
Funders
- National Key Research and Development Program of China