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Metabarcoding of Soil Fungal Communities Associated with Alpine Field-Grown Saffron ( Crocus sativus L.) Inoculated with AM Fung

Soil fungi strongly influence ecosystem structure and functioning, playing a key role in many ecological services as decomposers, plant mutualists and pathogens. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) establish mutualistic symbiotic associations with plant roots and act as biofertilizers by enhancing plant...

LUCAS Soil Component: proposal for analysing new physical, chemical and biological soil parameters

The European Commission launched a soil assessment component to the periodic LUCAS Land Use/Land Cover Area Frame Survey in 2009. In 2015, the Topsoil Survey was repeated in the same set of points of LUCAS 2009/2012 for monitoring changes in topsoil physical and chemical parameters across the EU. Currently,...