Fig. 2: Water and P-deficiency impacts on intercropped plants and root bacteria. | Communications Biology

Fig. 2: Water and P-deficiency impacts on intercropped plants and root bacteria.

From: Bioinoculants as a means of increasing crop tolerance to drought and phosphorus deficiency in legume-cereal intercropping systems

Fig. 2

Schematic illustration of the effect of water and P-deficiencies on intercropped plants’ above- and below-ground processes. Upward and downward arrows represent the stimulation versus the repression of the plant’s physiological, morphological, and biochemical processes, respectively. Structural and functional diversity of root associated bacteria shows a negative response to both stressors. Of note, both stressors along with root exudates from intercropped species, favor the selection of resilient microbial species. This figure was created using BioRender.com.

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