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Shifts in amino sugar and ergosterol contents after addition of sucrose and cellulose to soil
Authors:Brigitte Engelking  Rainer Georg Joergensen
Institution:a Department of Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition, University of Kassel, Nordbahnhofstr. 1a, 37213 Witzenhausen, Germany
b Institute of Soil Science and Forest Nutrition, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Abstract:An incubation experiment with organic soil amendments was carried out with the aim to determine whether formation and use of microbial tissue (biomass and residues) could be monitored by measuring glucosamine and muramic acid. Living fungal tissue was additionally determined by the cell-membrane component ergosterol. The organic amendments were fibrous maize cellulose and sugarcane sucrose adjusted to the same C/N ratio of 15. In a subsequent step, spherical cellulose was added without N to determine whether the microbial residues formed initially were preferentially decomposed. In the non-amended control treatment, ergosterol remained constant at 0.44 μg g−1 soil throughout the 67-day incubation. It increased to a highest value of 1.9 μg g−1 soil at day 5 in the sucrose treatment and to 5.0 μg g−1 soil at day 33 in the fibrous cellulose treatment. Then, the ergosterol content declined again. The addition of spherical cellulose had no further significant effects on the ergosterol content in these two treatments. The non-amended control treatment contained 48 μg muramic acid and 650 μg glucosamine g−1 soil at day 5. During incubation, these contents decreased by 17% and 19%, respectively. A 33% increase in muramic acid and an 8% increase in glucosamine were observed after adding sucrose. Consequently, the ratio of fungal C to bacterial C based on bacterial muramic acid and fungal glucosamine was lowered in comparison with the other two treatments. No effect on the two amino sugars was observed after adding cellulose initially or subsequently during the second incubation period. This indicates that the differences in quality between sucrose and cellulose had a strong impact on the formation of microbial residues. However, the amino sugars did not indicate a preferential decomposition of microbial residues as N sources.
Keywords:Ergosterol  Glucosamine  Muramic acid  Fungi  Bacteria  Microbial residues
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