Soil Microbiomes Associated with a Novel Perennial Grain Cultivated under Temperate Agricultural Conditions

Tess Noble Strohm; Shannon Ryan; Carolina Oliveira de Santana; M Eli Dueker; Gabriel G Perron

doi:10.1128/mra.00204-23

Soil Microbiomes Associated with a Novel Perennial Grain Cultivated under Temperate Agricultural Conditions

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 Jul 18;12(7):e0020423. doi: 10.1128/mra.00204-23. Epub 2023 Jun 26.

Authors

Tess Noble Strohm^#¹, Shannon Ryan^#¹, Carolina Oliveira de Santana^{2

3}, M Eli Dueker^{1

2}, Gabriel G Perron^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental and Urban Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA.
² Center for the Environmental Sciences and Humanities, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, State University of Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil.
⁴ Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

A perennial wheatgrass called Kernza perennial grains was developed by the Land Institute to harness the benefits of perenniality on soil health in a commercial farming system. This study compared bacterial and fungal soil microbiomes surrounding 1-year-old Kernza, 4-year-old Kernza, and 6-week-old winter wheat in Hudson Valley, New York.