Defoliation management and grass growth habits modulated the soil microbial community of turfgrass systems

• Qing Xia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Huaihai Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Tianyou Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Life Science and Technology, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, China

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• Grady Miller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Wei Shi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wei_shi@ncsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6869-0288

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