Publications by authors named "David Meca"
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- - Intensive farming strategies, particularly ecological intensification (EI) and organic management, are more sustainable than conventional management (CO) as they improve soil quality while maintaining high productivity levels.
- - The study revealed that EI leads to greater soil fertility and biodiversity, evidenced by higher numbers of beneficial bacterial taxa compared to CO, which mainly relies on inorganic fertilizers and often degrades soil health.
- - Different bacterial communities were linked to each management type, with CO support genera related to nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, whereas EI promoted bacteria that enhance organic matter breakdown and nutrient cycling, ultimately benefiting soil health.
Tomatoes are among the most important horticultural crops; however, it is estimated that 30% of tomato yield is lost due to postharvest rot due to , a fungus which requires lesions to initiate the infectious process. Tomato fruit cracking is a physiopathy which causes significant economic losses, since cracking is the door used by the fungus. In this experiment, 14 cultivars of tomato of different types were used.
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