Cotton strip assay detects soil microbial degradation differences among crop rotation and tillage experiments on Vertisols

Gunasekhar Nachimuthu; Andy Hundt; Blake Palmer; Graeme D Schwenke; Oliver G G Knox

doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2022.106558

Cotton strip assay detects soil microbial degradation differences among crop rotation and tillage experiments on Vertisols

Gunasekhar Nachimuthu
, Andy Hundt
, Blake Palmer
, Graeme D Schwenke
, Oliver G G Knox

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Abstract

The cotton strip assay (CSA) is a simple and inexpensive method of evaluating management effects on soil mi-crobial decomposition. The average loss of tensile strength of cotton strips buried 3 to 35 days in soils from two long-term tillage and crop-rotation experiments was of the order: cotton-wheat rotation > minimum-tillage cotton monoculture > maximum-tillage cotton monoculture. The study suggests CSA can be an effective indi-cator to delineate microbial activity, soil organic carbon or crop biomass as influenced by agricultural practices in cotton fields.

Original language	English
Article number	106558
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Journal	Journal of Microbiological Methods
Volume	200
Early online date	14 Aug 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2022.106558
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2022

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Keywords

Assay
Decomposition
Soil health
Cotton systems
Biochemical Research Methods
Microbiology
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Loss of tensile strength

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