Competition Increases Sensitivity of Wheat Triticum aestivum) to Biotic Plant-Soil Feedback.docVIP

CompetitionIncreasesSensitivityofWheat(Triticum aestivum)toBioticPlant-SoilFeedback W.H.GeraHol1*,WietsedeBoer2,3,FreddytenHooven1,WimH.vanderPutten1,4 1NetherlandsInstituteofEcology,DepartmentofTerrestrialEcology,Wageningen,TheNetherlands,2NetherlandsInstituteofEcology,DepartmentofMicrobialEcology, Wageningen,TheNetherlands,3WageningenUniversity,DepartmentofSoilQuality,Wageningen,TheNetherlands,4WageningenUniversity,LaboratoryofNematology, Wageningen,TheNetherlands Abstract Plant-soil feedback (PSF) and plant competition play an important role in structuring vegetation composition, but thei