The changes of soil microbiota as key influence of disease severity in degraded grasslands
Grassland degradation leads to biodiversity loss and shifts in soil microbial communities, which is considered to change the severity of community-level fungal diseases. However, the mechanisms by which changes in plant biodiversity and soil microbial communities influence plant diseases across varying degrees of grassland degradation remained poorly understood. In this study, we employed third-generation full-length amplicon sequencing to determine the influences on the prevalence of foliar fungal diseases in varying degrees of grassland degradation.