Shaaban, A., Youssef, Z., Kamel, H., Adly, R. (2023). The Relationship Between Plant Roots and Population Density of Soil Fauna in Some Vegetable Crops. test, 15(1), 145-153. doi: 10.21608/eajbsz.2023.294992
Abd El-Karim, Hamdi Shaaban; Zaki, Ayman Youssef; Hegazy, Ahmad Kamel; Rizk, Marguerite Adly. "The Relationship Between Plant Roots and Population Density of Soil Fauna in Some Vegetable Crops". test, 15, 1, 2023, 145-153. doi: 10.21608/eajbsz.2023.294992
Shaaban, A., Youssef, Z., Kamel, H., Adly, R. (2023). 'The Relationship Between Plant Roots and Population Density of Soil Fauna in Some Vegetable Crops', test, 15(1), pp. 145-153. doi: 10.21608/eajbsz.2023.294992
Shaaban, A., Youssef, Z., Kamel, H., Adly, R. The Relationship Between Plant Roots and Population Density of Soil Fauna in Some Vegetable Crops. test, 2023; 15(1): 145-153. doi: 10.21608/eajbsz.2023.294992

The Relationship Between Plant Roots and Population Density of Soil Fauna in Some Vegetable Crops

Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology
Volume 15, Issue 1, June 2023, Pages 145-153    PDF (781.98 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/eajbsz.2023.294992
Authors
Abd El-Karim, Hamdi Shaaban1; Zaki, Ayman Youssef1; Hegazy, Ahmad Kamel2; Rizk, Marguerite Adly1
1Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt.
2Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Abstract
Soil is a complex environment resulting from the interaction between plant cultivated and soil fauna. In this work, we investigated the relationship between the chemical components of plant roots and the biodiversity of soil fauna. The effect of root exudates of three different vegetable crops (cucumber, okra and eggplant) on the activity density of soil fauna was compared. The experiment was carried out at Fayoum Governorate, Egypt. Soil arthropod samples were weekly taken from the aforementioned crops using the pitfall trap method. Also, the chemical composition of dry plant roots was examined. The following remarks are summarizing the obtained results: 1) total chemical composition of dry plant root material from okra was higher than cucumber and eggplant. 2) the total number of soil fauna collected from okra was (3799 indiv. /10 traps) decreased to (3312 &2220 /10 traps) in cucumber and eggplant, respectively. 3) These results show that root type and its chemical composition may affect the increase or decrease of soil fauna.
Keywords
Soil fauna; Vegetation type; Root structure; Chemical composition
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