Soil Fungi-Plant Interaction
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One of the main European agricultural problems is the decline in soil fertility due to the reduction of the natural soil harmony. When natural soil composition is altered, few cultivated plants replace spontaneous populations of numerous species. Man becomes the only regulator of a new fragile equilibrium between the simplified biocenosis elements. Agronomic techniques (fertilisation, irrigation, soil tillage, etc.) become instruments to achieve such an improbable equilibrium. Frequently, these techniques are just the ones responsible for environmental pollution, disequilibrium among mineral elements and the general decrease in soil fertility. They are based on simplification of the relationships between the plant and other components of the natural habitat. This simplification should make agricultural systems easier to be controlled, but, indeed, it creates conditions of extreme weakness for plant life. It is clear that life on emerged lands has been possible thanks to complex relationships and, for plants in particular, to microorganism symbiosis. On the other hand, decreasing relationships between cultivated plants and other components of the natural habitat give rise to environmental degradation and pollution (due to the need of using high amounts of chemical inputs).
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