Organic and conservation agriculture promote ecosystem multifunctionality.

Ecosystems provide multiple services to humans. However, agricultural systems are usually evaluated on their productivity and economic performance, and a systematic and quantitative assessment of the multifunctionality of agroecosystems including environmental services is missing. Using a long-term farming system experiment, we evaluated and compared the agronomic, economic, and ecological performance of the most widespread arable cropping systems in Europe: organic, conservation, and conventional agriculture.

Correction to: Cropping practices manipulate abundance patterns of root and soil microbiome members paving the way to smart farming.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Correction to: Cropping practices manipulate abundance patterns of root and soil microbiome members paving the way to smart farming.

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that while the ordination graphs are all correct, the symbols in the legend are wrong.

Cropping practices manipulate abundance patterns of root and soil microbiome members paving the way to smart farming.

Background: Harnessing beneficial microbes presents a promising strategy to optimize plant growth and agricultural sustainability. Little is known to which extent and how specifically soil and plant microbiomes can be manipulated through different cropping practices. Here, we investigated soil and wheat root microbial communities in a cropping system experiment consisting of conventional and organic managements, both with different tillage intensities.

Cover crops support ecological intensification of arable cropping systems.

A major challenge for agriculture is to enhance productivity with minimum impact on the environment. Several studies indicate that cover crops could replace anthropogenic inputs and enhance crop productivity. However, so far, it is unclear if cover crop effects vary between different cropping systems, and direct comparisons among major arable production systems are rare.