Jessica Cuartero Monino
@wsl.ch
PostDoc - Waldböden und Biogeochemie Rhizosphären-Prozesse
Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Soil Science, Multidisciplinary, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Molecular Biology
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Hannu Fritze, Tero Tuomivirta, Luigi Orrù, Loredana Canfora, Jessica Cuartero, Margarita Ros, Jose Antonio Pascual, Raúl Zornosa, Marcos Egea-Cortines, Kristiina Lång,et al.
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AbstractDiversification of agricultural practices, including changes in crop rotation, intercropping or cover cropping, influence the soil microbiome. Here the impact of tillage and crop diversification on the soil microbiome is reported, being one of the few boreal studies. The field experiment consisted of four treatments with four replications all having a short cereal rotation practice namely an oat (Avena sativa) – spring barley (Hordeum vulgare) – wheat (Triticum aestivum) rotation for the past 10 years until spring 2018. During that period two of the treatments were conventionally tilled with moldboard ploughing whereas the other two were no-tillage treatments. From the growing season 2018 until fall 2020 the main crop in all treatments was spring barley. The first conventional tillage treatment was diversified with English ryegrass (Lolium perenne) as an undersown cover crop for the next three growing seasons. The first no-tillage treatment continued with spring barley only. The second conventional tillage and no-tillage treatment had winter rapeseed in rotation in 2019. Bulk soils were sampled in May 2018 before diversification and then in October 2018, 2019, and 2020. The results showed a clear effect of tillage on the beta-diversity of the soil microbiome and an increase in fungal richness. Barley monoculture interrupted with winter rapeseed resulted in a minor change of the fungal and bacterial community composition. Other fungal and bacterial alpha diversity measures did not react to tillage or diversification nor did the gene copy abundances involved in the N cycle. In conclusion tillage had a profound effect on the soil microbiome hindering impact of the diversification.
Alexandre Buttler, Roland Teuscher, Nicolas Deschamps, Konstantin Gavazov, Luca Bragazza, Pierre Mariotte, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Vincent E.J. Jassey, Lucas Freund, Jessica Cuartero,et al.
Elsevier BV
Jesús Aguilera-Huertas, Jessica Cuartero, Margarita Ros, Jose Antonio Pascual, Luis Parras-Alcántara, Manuel González-Rosado, Onurcan Özbolat, Raúl Zornoza, Marcos Egea-Cortines, María Hurtado-Navarro,et al.
Elsevier BV
Alicia Hernández-Lara, Margarita Ros, Jessica Cuartero, Juana-Maria Vivo, Pedro Lozano-Pastor, and José Antonio Pascual
Elsevier BV
Jose M. Orts, Juan Parrado, Jose A. Pascual, Angel Orts, Jessica Cuartero, Manuel Tejada, and Margarita Ros
MDPI AG
Polyurethane (PU) is a widely used polymer with a highly complex recycling process due to its chemical structure. Eliminating polyurethane is limited to incineration or accumulation in landfills. Biodegradation by enzymes and microorganisms has been studied for decades as an effective method of biological decomposition. In this study, Tenebrio molitor larvae (T. molitor) were fed polyurethane foam. They degraded the polymer by 35% in 17 days, resulting in a 14% weight loss in the mealworms. Changes in the T. molitor gut bacterial community and diversity were observed, which may be due to the colonization of the species associated with PU degradation. The physical and structural biodegradation of the PU, as achieved by T. molitor, was observed and compared to the characteristics of the original PU (PU-virgin) using Fourier Transform InfraRed spectroscopy (FTIR), Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), and Scanning Electron Microphotography (SEM).
Onurcan Özbolat, Virginia Sánchez-Navarro, Raúl Zornoza, Marcos Egea-Cortines, Jessica Cuartero, Margarita Ros, Jose A. Pascual, Carolina Boix-Fayos, María Almagro, Joris de Vente,et al.
Elsevier BV
Jessica Cuartero, Jose Antonio Pascual, Juana-María Vivo, Onurcan Özbolat, Virginia Sánchez-Navarro, Julia Weiss, Raúl Zornoza, María Martínez-Mena, Eloisa García, and Margarita Ros
Frontiers Media SA
The high use of pesticides, herbicides, and unsustainable farming practices resulted in losses of soil quality. Sustainable farming practices such as intercropping could be a good alternative to traditional monocrop, especially using legumes such as cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp). In this study, different melon and cowpea intercropping patterns (melon mixed with cowpea in the same row (MC1); alternating one melon row and one cowpea row (MC2); alternating two melon rows and one cowpea row (MC3)) were assayed to study the intercropping effect on soil bacterial community through 16S rRNA region in a 3-year experiment. The results indicated that intercropping showed high content of total organic carbon, total nitrogen and ammonium, melon yield, and bacterial diversity as well as higher levels of beneficial soil microorganisms such a Pseudomonas, Aeromicrobium, Niastella, or Sphingomonas which can promote plant growth and plant defense against pathogens. Furthermore, intercropping showed a higher rare taxa diversity in two (MC1 and MC2) out of the three intercropping systems. In addition, N-cycling genes such as nirB, nosZ, and amoA were more abundant in MC1 and MC2 whereas the narG predicted gene was far more abundant in the intercropping systems than in the monocrop at the end of the 3-year experiment. This research fills a gap in knowledge about the importance of soil bacteria in an intercropping melon/cowpea pattern, showing the benefits to yield and soil quality with a decrease in N fertilization.
Jessica Cuartero, Jose Antonio Pascual, Juana-María Vivo, Onurcan Özbolat, Virginia Sánchez-Navarro, Marcos Egea-Cortines, Raúl Zornoza, Maria Martinez Mena, Eloisa Garcia, and Margarita Ros
Elsevier BV
Jessica Cuartero, Onurcan Özbolat, Virginia Sánchez-Navarro, Julia Weiss, Raúl Zornoza, José Antonio Pascual, Juana-María Vivo, and Margarita Ros
MDPI AG
Significant differences in the microbial community and diversity in soil have been observed due to organic farming, but little research has been performed for exploring microbial functionality and the co-occurrence of patterns among microbial taxa. In this work, we study soil 16S rDNA amplicons from two long-term organic farming systems (Org_C and Org_M) and a conventional system (Conv) to decipher the differences in microbial interaction and network organization and to predict functional genes (principally related to the N cycle). In general, the network organizations were different in all cropping systems due to agricultural management. Org_C showed the highest negative interactions and modularity and the most altered bacterial niches and interactions, which led to an increase in generalist species that stabilize the bacterial community and improve the response of the soil to adverse conditions. These changes altered the predicted functionality of the bacterial community; Org_C showed higher referred numbers of nitrogen fixation genes, a decrease in the N2O emission genes and could favor the uptake of environmental CO2. Thus, long-term compost amendment application has significant benefits for the farmer and the environment, since prolonged application can reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides and could create a more stable soil, which could resist the effects of climate change.
Alicia Hernández-Lara, Margarita Ros, Jessica Cuartero, María Ángeles Bustamante, Raul Moral, Francisco Javier Andreu-Rodríguez, Juan A. Fernández, Catalina Egea-Gilabert, and José Antonio Pascual
Elsevier BV
Jessica Cuartero, Onurcan Özbolat, Virginia Sánchez-Navarro, Marcos Egea-Cortines, Raúl Zornoza, Loredana Canfora, Luigi Orrù, Jose Antonio Pascual, Juana-María Vivo, and Margarita Ros
MDPI AG
Long-term organic farming aims to reduce synthetic fertilizer and pesticide use in order to sustainably produce and improve soil quality. To do this, there is a need for more information about the soil microbial community, which plays a key role in a sustainable agriculture. In this paper, we assessed the long-term effects of two organic and one conventional cropping systems on the soil microbial community structure using high-throughput sequencing analysis, as well as the link between these communities and the changes in the soil properties and crop yield. The results showed that the crop yield was similar among the three cropping systems. The microbial community changed according to cropping system. Organic cultivation with manure compost and compost tea (Org_C) showed a change in the bacterial community associated with an improved soil carbon and nutrient content. A linear discriminant analysis effect size showed different bacteria and fungi as key microorganisms for each of the three different cropping systems, for conventional systems (Conv), different microorganisms such as Nesterenkonia, Galbibacter, Gramella, Limnobacter, Pseudoalteromonas, Pantoe, and Sporobolomyces were associated with pesticides, while for Org_C and organic cultivation with manure (Org_M), other types of microorganisms were associated with organic amendments with different functions, which, in some cases, reduce soil borne pathogens. However, further investigations such as functional approaches or network analyses are need to better understand the mechanisms behind this behavior.