农牧交错带不同施肥措施土壤剖面生物量动态变化

通过田间试验,研究了农牧交错带不同施肥对土壤剖面微生物量的影响。结果表明:(1)有机肥及有机无机肥配施(MNP)土壤剖面的各层次微生物量碳、氮及总有机碳、全氮含量均高于有机肥(M)、无机肥配施(NP)和不施肥(CK)处理。(2)土壤有机碳和全氮剖面的变化趋势4个处理的基本一致,随土壤剖面的深度增加而下降。而土壤微生物量碳、氮含量为10-20cm0-10cm20-40cm。(3)微生物商作为长期培肥过程中土壤质量演变的评价指标有待商榷。(4)土壤微生物生物量碳、氮与土壤有机碳、氮之间存在线性相关关系,特别是土壤微生物生物量碳、氮之间关系显著(p0.05),表明土壤微生物量可以用来指示土壤肥力的水平。研究结果能够很好的反映农牧交错带不同施肥措施下土壤肥力的变化情况。     

长期不同施肥管理对稻田土壤有机碳库特征的影响

以19年的长期定位施肥土壤为材料,研究不同施肥管理:不施肥(CK),施无机肥(N、NP、NK、NPK),施有机肥(OM),有机-无机配施(F、F')下稻田耕层土壤有机碳库组分及含量变化.结果表明:不同施肥方式对土壤有机碳及其组分有显著影响,土壤总有机碳(TOC)变化趋势为有机无机配施(平均12.34g/kg)>单施有机肥(平均12.15 g/kg)>无肥(平均10.56 g/kg)>化肥(平均9.78 g/kg);有机肥和化肥配施土壤徽生物量碳(SMBC)、水溶性有机碳(WSOC)、轻组有机碳(LFOC)及SMl3(2/TOC、WSOC/TOC、LFOC/TOC均显著高于单施化肥土壤的.与不施肥相比,化肥、有机肥的施用均显著增加了土壤重组有机碳(HFOC)和HFOC/TOC,其中,化肥的施用更有利于土壤重组有机碳(LFOC)的积累.单施有机肥或有机无机配施显著增加了较大粒级(>0.25 mm)水稳性团聚体及其TOC含量,而单施化肥则显著增加了较小粒级(<0.25 mm)及其TOC含量.因此,长期施用有机肥,特别是有机肥与无机肥配施能提高土壤活性碳含量和土壤团聚体稳定性,从而保持和提高了土壤质量和持续生产力.     

长期施肥对棕壤有机碳及各组分的影响

本文通过棕壤长期定位施肥试验,研究了玉米-玉米-大豆轮作条件下不同施肥处理土壤有机碳及其不同密度组分的变化及其影响因素。结果表明:经过27年的长期不同施肥,土壤有机碳含量有了明显变化,总的变化趋势是:高量有机肥区(12.30gkg-1)>低量有机肥区(11.41gkg-1)>化肥区(9.95gkg-1)>1979年(试验前9.03gkg-1)>对照处理(8.23gkg-1),尤其以高量有机肥配施化肥处理的有机碳水平最高,氮磷钾配合施用有机碳水平要高于其它单施化肥处理;长期施肥可以显著提高土壤中轻组部分含量和轻组有机碳含量,不同施肥处理间差异显著。单施化肥处理,特别是氮磷钾配合施用,轻组部分数量和轻组有机碳含量高于无肥处理和试验前土壤。有机无机肥配合施用轻组有机碳含量明显高于单施化肥处理。施用不同肥料均可以提高土壤重组有机碳含量,有机无机肥配施效果明显。     

长期有机无机肥配施对红壤性水稻土微生物生物量和有机质结构的影响

为研究长期有机无机肥配施对红壤性水稻田作物产量、土壤微生物生物量及有机碳分子结构的影响,以始于1984年的江西红壤性水稻田长期定位试验为平台,选取的试验处理包括:不施肥(CK)、单施化肥(NPK)和等养分条件下70%化肥配施30%有机肥(NPKM1)、50%化肥配施50%有机肥(NPKM2)、30%化肥配施70%有机肥(NPKM3),采用固体~(13)C核磁共振测定了土壤有机碳组分含量,分析了土壤化学指标和土壤微生物生物量碳(Microbial biomass carbon,MBC)和微生物生物量氮(Microbial biomass nitrogen,MBN)。结果表明,连续34年的不同施肥处理显著影响了水稻产量、土壤微生物生物量及土壤有机碳(SOC)分子结构。与NPK处理相比,有机肥配施(NPKM1、NPKM2、NPKM3)提高了水稻产量,增幅为6.5%～7.7%(P0.05),中低有机肥配施比例(30%和50%)稳产效果更优。长期单施化肥使土壤严重酸化,而配施有机肥可减缓土壤酸化。长期施肥处理MBC和MBN较CK处理分别显著提高17.0%～71.1%和104.1%～267.0%,但MBC/MBN下降,有机无机肥配施处理较NPK处理提高了微生物熵。长期单施化肥主要提高了烷基碳的相对含量,而配施有机肥同时提高烷基碳和烷氧碳(甲氧基/含氮烷基碳)含量,有利于土壤活性有机质累积。Pearson相关性分析表明土壤微生物生物量与SOC、氮磷养分指标及甲氧基/含氮烷基碳呈显著或极显著正相关,与芳基碳和羧基碳呈显著负相关。冗余分析显示SOC、有效磷、速效钾及烷基碳等对水稻产量的影响较大。研究表明,在供试条件下,长期实行中低比例有机肥配施化肥有利于提高土壤养分和土壤微生物生物量,并改善土壤有机质结构,是维持作物高产和提升土壤质量的有效施肥措施。     

不同培肥方式对土壤有机碳与微生物群落结构的影响

为揭示旱作区耕地土壤有机碳累积规律及其与土壤微生物群落间的相互作用机制,试验采用磷脂脂肪酸(PLFA)指纹图谱及土壤腐殖质形态分组的方法,通过田间定位试验,研究了马铃薯-马铃薯-油用向日葵-马铃薯-油用向日葵轮作模式下,有机、无机肥配施(不施肥、单施化肥、化肥配施牛粪、化肥配施羊粪、化肥配施生物有机肥、化肥配施黄腐酸钾)对土壤有机碳累积、土壤腐殖质形态的影响及其与土壤微生物群落结构间的相互关系。结果表明:在连续培肥5年间,随培肥时间延长,土壤有机碳呈波动性上升趋势。与对照相比,化肥配施牛粪、化肥配施羊粪处理土壤有机碳以年6.61%和8.97%的增长率累积增加,不同处理外源有机碳含量及有机肥种类的差异影响了土壤有机碳的累积速率。化肥配施高量有机肥(化肥+羊粪、化肥+牛粪)处理显著提高了土壤稳结态、松结态腐殖质含量及松结态/紧结态腐殖质的比例,且以PLFA表征的土壤细菌、真菌、放线菌、原生动物、土壤微生物群落总生物量与对照处理间均有显著性差异(P0.05)。与对照相比,各施肥处理的革兰氏阳性菌/革兰氏阴性菌(G+/G-)值均呈降低趋势;但不同有机无机相结合的土壤培肥方式对土壤G+/G-的比例没有显著差异。多元分析表明,基于土壤微生物主要类群磷脂脂肪酸含量的排序轴与基于土壤有机碳、腐殖质形态的排序轴之间相关性(P1=0.568,P2=0.611)较好,累积变量在98.69%上揭示不同有机无机培肥措施影响下的土壤微生物群落生物量与环境因子间的相互关系。土壤松结态腐殖质含量与土壤G+/G-比值正相关。外源有机碳的施入促进了土壤紧结态腐殖碳向稳结态、松结态腐殖质转化;较高量外源有机碳施入有助于提升土壤细菌、真菌的生物量。总体而言,土壤微生物群落结构的变化是受有机无机培肥措施所引起的土壤有机碳含量、腐殖质形态变化驱动;化肥配施牛粪和化肥配施羊粪有利于土壤有机碳积累和松结态腐殖质的形成,促进土壤中微生物生物量提高。研究结果可为宁夏中部干旱区土壤合理培肥提供科学依据。     

不同施肥措施对黄土丘陵区农田土壤有机碳组分和碳库管理指数的影响

为探究不同施肥对黄土丘陵区农田土壤有机碳组分及碳库管理指数(CPMI) 的影响,以及提高旱区土壤碳“汇”能力提供理论依据,研究基于中科院安塞水土保持试验站长期定位试验,采用5种不同施肥设置[种植作物不施肥(CK)、氮磷肥配施(NP)、氮磷钾肥配施(NPK)、单施有机肥(M)和有机肥中配施氮磷肥(MNP)]对土壤有机碳组成及碳库管理指数(CPMI)的影响。结果表明：不同施肥处理能增加不同土层土壤有机碳及其组分含量,且土壤有机碳及其组分含量随土层深度增加而逐渐降低；施用有机肥处理(M和MNP)下0-20cm土壤有机碳及其组分含量高于化肥(NP和NPK)和CK处理,与CK处理为对照,M和MNP处理下有机碳含量分别增加133.59%、118.52%(P<0.05),易氧化有机碳含量分别增加51.73%、48.20%(P<0.05),可溶性有机碳含量分别增加61.54%、53.21%(P<0.05),土壤微生物碳含量分别增加68.34%、113.04%(P<0.05)；除土壤微生物碳以外,20-40cm土壤有机碳及其组分含量均无显著差异；不同施肥处理显著提高0-20cm 土壤CPMI,M处理下CPMI在所有施肥处理中最高,20-40cm 土壤中M处理下CPMI在所有施肥处理中最大,但各施肥处理间差异不显著。总体来讲,施用有机肥可以提高旱区土壤水土保持能力和土壤肥力,增强土壤碳“汇”功能及其土壤有机碳的稳定性。     

长期有机无机肥配施增强黄壤性水稻土有机氮的物理保护作用

【目的】土壤有机碳物理一化学联合分组方法很好地联系了有机碳的多种稳定机制,成为深入研究土壤有机碳组分特征的有效手段。本研究旨在利用该方法研究长期施肥对黄壤性水稻土有机氮组分特征的影响,为合理施肥提供理论依据。【方法】基于南方黄壤性水稻土18年长期施肥定位试验,分析了不同施肥处理土壤有机氮组分含量及分配比例的变化。试验处理包括不施肥对照(CK)、单施化肥(NPK)、单施有机肥(M)、无机肥配施低量有机肥(0.5MNPK)和无机肥配施高量有机肥(MNPK)。【结果】单施化肥处理(NPK)水稻土总有机氮及各组分有机氮含量与不施肥对照相比无显著变化,施用有机肥处理(M、0.5MNPK、MNPK)则显著提高了土壤总有机氮、游离态粗颗粒、物理保护、化学保护及生物化学保护有机氮含量提高幅度分别为27%~51%、23%~39%、128%~274%、29%~42%和13%~28%,以有机无机肥配施最为显著,但降低了游离态细颗粒有机氮含量。在各个氮组分中游离态颗粒有机氮占总有机氮比例最高(46%~50%)物理保护有机氮比例最低(2%~6%)。与不施肥(CK)及单施化肥处理(NPK)相比,有机肥处理(M、0.5MNPK、MNPK)提高了土壤物理保护有机氮的分配比例。【结论】长期施肥土壤各组分有机氮及总有机氮两两之间均呈显著相关关系只有游离细颗粒有机氮与物理保护有机氮呈负相关关系。长期施用有机肥,极大改善土壤团聚体结构促进游离细颗粒有机氮的包裹,进而提高物理保护有机氮的相对比例,土壤有机氮的物理保护作用相对增强。因此,有机无机肥配施是提高稻田土壤有机氮含量的最有效措施。     

长期定位施肥下黑土呼吸的变化特征及其影响因素

阐明长期不同施肥下的土壤呼吸特征及其影响机制对黑土区固碳减排研究至关重要。该研究基于1990年开始的国家土壤肥力与肥料效益监测网站-吉林省公主岭市黑土监测基地,选取不施肥(CK)、单施氮磷钾肥(NPK)、无机肥配施低量有机肥(NPKM1)、1.5倍的无机肥配施低量有机肥(1.5(NPKM1))、无机肥配施高量有机肥(NPKM2)和无机肥配施秸秆(NPKS)6个处理,明确了长期不同施肥下土壤总呼吸和异养呼吸的季节变化特征,并分析了土壤温度、水分、微生物量碳氮、铵态氮、硝态氮与土壤呼吸和异养呼吸的关系。结果表明:长期有机无机肥配施可以显著提高土壤有机碳、全氮、土壤速效磷、有效钾的含量和土壤活性有机碳库组分含量(P0.05);与不施肥相比,长期有机无机肥配施和无机配施秸秆处理分别显著增加土壤呼吸及异养呼吸碳累积排放量56.32%~86.54%和70.01%~100.93%;根系呼吸对土壤呼吸的整体贡献为23.68%~34.30%;相关分析表明,土壤呼吸速率和异养呼吸速率与土壤温度极显著正相关(P0.01),与土壤含水率呈显著负相关(P0.01),土壤温度可以分别解释土壤呼吸和异养呼吸变化的42.79%和39.61%;土壤微生物量碳氮、土壤硝态氮均与土壤呼吸速率和异养呼吸速率极显著相关(P0.01),土壤微生物量碳氮、土壤硝态氮可以分别解释土壤呼吸和异养呼吸变化的78.42%和77.18%,58.33%和56.79%,59.29%和59.14%;土壤铵态氮虽然显著影响土壤呼吸速率(P0.05),可以解释土壤呼吸变化的5.56%,但其对异养呼吸速率的影响不显著。综合来看,微生物量碳对土壤呼吸及异养呼吸的影响最大,而土壤含水率(15%)越高则土壤呼吸越弱;无机配施秸秆处理可以提高土壤碳库组分含量,且作物生育期内土壤呼吸及异养呼吸碳累积释放量均低于等氮量下施用有机肥(NPKM1)的处理,为最佳的农田管理措施。     

长期施肥对浙江稻田土壤团聚体及其有机碳分布的影响

以浙江省稻田长期定位试验站为依托,研究长期不同施肥措施对土壤团聚体及其有机碳分布的影响。研究结果表明,与不施肥对照(CK)相比,栏肥与化肥配施(NPKOM)、单施栏肥(OM)、秸秆与化肥配施(NPKRS)和单施秸秆(RS)处理均显著提高了2 mm和2~0.25 mm水稳定性大团聚体的含量和团聚体平均重量直径(p0.05),强化了团聚体对土壤有机碳的物理保护作用。此外,长期有机无机配施(NPKOM和NPKRS)处理显著提高了各个粒级团聚体中有机碳含量,并且显著增加水稳定性大团聚体有机碳的贡献率,而长期单施化肥和单施秸秆处理并未有效增加土壤总有机碳含量。不同施肥处理下,2~0.25 mm粒级团聚体有机碳占土壤总有机碳的34.2%~48.6%,是土壤有机碳的主要载体。利用傅立叶变换红外光谱(FT-IR)技术对2~0.25 mm和0.053 mm团聚体进行结构表征,发现长期单施有机肥或者有机无机配施下芳香族C较CK提高29.9%~45.2%,较NPK处理提高22.3%~36.6%,提高了土壤有机碳的芳构化。在有机碳积累方面,施用有机肥,尤其是栏肥与化肥配施,同时强化了团聚体对有机碳的物理保护以及促进了化学抗性有机碳组分的积累,是加强稻田土壤有机碳库积累的合理施肥模式。     

长期施肥对黑土、棕壤微生物量的影响

以公主岭黑土长期定位试验和中科院沈阳生态试验站棕壤长期试验为平台,对不同施肥处理土壤微生物量碳、氮含量的变化及其与土壤有机碳、全氮的关系进行研究。结果表明,长期不同施肥处理黑土和棕壤微生物量碳、氮含量不同,大小依次为有机肥配施化肥>有机肥>化肥>不施肥,其中有机肥配施化肥处理可以显著提高土壤微生物量碳、氮。微生物量碳、氮含量与土壤有机碳、全氮含量之间具有极显著的正相关关系。同时,有机肥配施化肥处理能够显著增加土壤微生物商。     

Role of allophanes in the accumulation of glomalin‐related soil protein in tropical soils (Martinique,French West Indies)

Thermo‐stable, operationally defined soil protein, known as glomalin, may make an important contribution to carbon storage in soils. The term glomalin is used because this putative protein, or group of proteins, was originally thought to be produced only by Glomus fungi. There is currently little information on the glomalin‐related soil protein (GRSP) content of tropical soils, particularly allophanic soils that are known to have different carbon dynamics to temperate climate soils. We have measured the Bradford‐reactive GRSP content of soils sampled from forests and grasslands on the tropical island of Martinique and compared the observations with soil composition. Two operationally defined fractions of GRSP were measured, namely easily‐extractable and total GRSP. The contents of GRSP in moist soils were in the range of 2–36 g kg^?1, accounting for about 8% of soil organic carbon, and were greater in topsoils than in corresponding subsoils. Both the GRSP contents and the fraction of soil organic carbon attributed to GRSP were greater than those reported for temperate climate soils. Both total and easily extractable GRSP contents were positively correlated to soil organic carbon content. The fraction of soil organic carbon that could be attributed to soil protein decreased with increasing allophane content for allophanic soils. No other trends of GRSP content with soil properties or land use were found. GRSP extraction was decreased about seven‐fold by air‐drying of soils, confirming the irreversible change in the soil microstructure of allophanic soils. Total and easily extractable GRSP were correlated and we conclude that both are good probes of thermo‐stable soil protein content for these soils. No attempt was made to verify the fungal origin of the protein detected.     

Chemical characteristics of glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) extracted from soils of varying organic matter content

Glomalin is described in the literature as a N-linked glycoprotein and the putative gene product of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Since the link between glomalin and various protein fractions in soil is not yet clearly defined, glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) more appropriately describes glomalin's existence in natural organic matter (NOM). The objective of this study was to examine the chemical characteristics of GRSP present in several mineral and organic soils of varying organic carbon content. GRSP was isolated using high temperature sodium citrate extraction followed by either trichloroacetic acid (TCA) or hydrochloric acid (HCl) precipitation. GRSP was characterized by quantitative solid-state ¹³C DPMAS NMR, infrared (IR) spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and the Bradford assay for protein content. GRSP accounted for 25% and 52% of total C in the mineral soils and organic soil, respectively. Molar C/N and H/C ratios reveal that GRSP has less nitrogen than bovine serum albumin (BSA), and that GRSP extracted from the Pahokee peat soil possessed a more unsaturated, and thus aromatic character relative to the mineral soil GRSP, respectively. GRSP's high aromatic (42-49%) and carboxyl (24-30%) carbon contents and low aliphatic (4-11%) and carbohydrate-type carbon contents (4-16%) suggests that GRSP does not resemble a typical glycoprotein. In fact, the NMR spectra of GRSP closely resemble that of humic acid. GRSP extracted from mineral and organic soils possessed the same NMR fingerprint regardless of the precipitation method used (i.e., either TCA or HCl). It is likely that the current GRSP extraction methods, because of their similarity to the method used to extract humic acid, are coextracting both materials.     

球囊霉素及其在土壤生态系统中的作用

球囊霉素(Glomalin)是一种在土壤中大量存在的、由丛枝菌根真菌(Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi,AMF)产生的具有良好热稳性的特殊糖蛋白.球囊霉素因其在促进土壤团聚体形成,保持团聚体稳定性,增加土壤有机碳库,提高植物抗逆能力以及降低重金属在土壤中的毒性等方面的作用备受人们关注.目前由于提...     

Decomposition and the contribution of glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) in heavy metal sequestration: Field experiment

Glomalin is a metal-sorbing glycoprotein excreted by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). One method of estimating glomalin in soils is as glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP). In this study the role of GRSP in sequestering Pb and Cd was investigated in an in situ field experiment. The effect of metal sequestration on the subsequent decomposition of GRSP was also investigated. GRSP was determined using the Bradford method as total glomalin-related soil protein (T-GRSP) and as easily extractable glomalin-related soil protein (EE-GRSP). After 140 days, GRSP bound Pb accounted for 0.21–1.78% of the total Pb, and GRSP bound Cd accounted for 0.38–0.98% of the total Cd content in the soil. However when compared on a soil organic matter (SOM) basis, only 4% of the Pb or Cd was bound to the GRSP fraction of the SOM compared with 40–54% of the Pb or Cd bound to the humin and fulvic acids in the SOM fraction. In soils contaminated with the highest levels of Pb and Cd, the T-GRSP (EE-GRSP) decomposition after 140 days was reduced by 8.0 (6.6)% and 7.0 (7.5)%, respectively, when compared with the controls. In the high Pb or Cd treatment groups we found that the fraction of metal bound to GRSP increased even though the total GRSP content declined over time. The mass ratio between Pb and GRSP-carbon changed from 2.3 to 271.4 mg (100 g)⁻¹ in all Pb levels soil, while with the high-Cd treatment group the mass ratio between Cd and GRSP-carbon (0.36 mg (100 g)⁻¹) was higher than the mass ratio seen with Cd-bound humic acid fractions. Our in situ field study shows that while GRSP does bind Pb and Cd, in the soils we investigated, the levels are insignificant compared to soil organic matter such as humic and fulvic acids.     

Losses of glomalin-related soil protein under prolonged arable cropping: A chronosequence study in sandy soils of the South African Highveld

Residues of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) may be important for agroecosystem functioning due to their ability to promote soil aggregation, especially in coarse textured soils with little biomass input and low capacity to conserve soil organic matter (SOM). Our aim was to assess the fate of AMF residues with prolonged arable cropping in coarse textured soils in a subtropical savannah assuming that glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), especially the MAb32B11-immunoreactive fraction, mainly constitutes material of AMF origin. In three agroecosystems on the South African Highveld, surface soils were sampled. The former grassland soils had a history of up to 98 yr of cropping. We measured four GRSP fractions: Bradford-reactive soil protein (BRSP) and immunoreactive soil protein (IRSP), and easily extractable fractions of both. The primary grassland sites exhibited generally low contents of SOM and low GRSP contents. Prolonged arable land use of former grassland soils reduced the content of GRSP further. The decline could be described with a mono-exponential function with rate constants ranging from 0.04 to 0.41 yr⁻¹. Depending on the GRSP fraction, steady-state conditions were reached after 11-92 yr on a level of 39-69% of the initial contents. We conclude that even though GRSP fractions had the same hypothesized origin, they comprised pools with different stability or replacement rate. Easily extractable IRSP was lost most rapidly. In contrast to carbon, nitrogen and microbial residue dynamics, GRSP contents were not reduced below a certain steady-state level, despite potentially negative management effects on AMF, such as tillage, inclusion of fallows into crop rotation and fertilization with inorganic phosphorus. The steady-state GRSP contents coincided with low, but steady agroecosystem yields under the given cropping management.     

Re-examining the glomalin-purity of glomalin-related soil protein fractions through immunochemical,lectin-affinity and soil labelling experiments

Due to analytical similarities with the mycorrhizal glycoprotein glomalin, ubiquitous citrate and heat-extractable soil protein fractions have been assumed to be predominantly glomalin-stabilised within soil. Often termed glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), little however is actually known of the “glomalin-purity” of these soil fractions. We undertook western and lectin blots and crossed immuno/lectin affinity electrophoresis (CIE/CLAE) analysis of “easily extractible” GRSP fractions, as well as liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) of “total” GRSP fractions. To further test whether soil saprobes contribute to GRSP production, we amended soil with ¹⁴C-sucrose and examined whether ¹⁴C could be traced in the GRSP pool over a 500-day incubation period.While only four of six bands on SDS–PAGE profiles of easily extracted GRSP reacted with anti-glomalin MAb32B11 and the lectin Con A under our blotting conditions, CIE/CLAE indicated the presence of a single protein moiety in the easily extractible GRSP pool. LC–MS/MS analysis of total GRSP pooled from various soils also showed that although traces of protein tentatively assignable to soil bacteria were present in GRSP, their concentrations were low. Additionally, specific activity of total GRSP in ¹⁴C-labelled soil was relatively depleted compared to the bulk soil and soil microbial biomass. This suggests that little GRSP of heterotrophic origin was laid down over the incubation period, although the potential presence of a pre-existing ¹⁴C-free GRSP background, as well as of low microbial dynamics in the absence of any further substrate inputs to the soil warrant caution with this inference.     

Glomalin amount and compositional variation,and their associations with soil properties in farmland,northeastern China

Glomalin‐related soil protein (GRSP) is well‐known for its soil conditioning functions, but compositional traits are rarely considered. Farmland in northeastern China is the most important commercial grain basis, and soil degradation becomes the bottleneck for keeping crop productivity. The objective of this study was to uncover the possible associations between GRSP (amount and composition) and soil properties, and make suggestions for soil improvement from soil glomalin rehabilitation in northeastern China. Here, spatial variation in GRSP amount (Easily‐extractable‐GRSP, EE‐GRSP; Total‐GRSP, T‐GRSP) and its compositional traits from infrared spectroscopy, UV‐absorbance, X‐ray diffraction (XRD) and 3‐D fluorescence spectroscopy were surveyed in 360 soil samples across northeastern China, and their association with 11 soil properties were also analyzed for finding the possible influence of soil properties on GRSP composition in farmland. There about 3‐fold spatial variation in GRSP amount was observed, while functional group variations were ranged from 1.2‐fold (O–H & N–H stretching) to 2.4‐fold (C–O stretching & O–H bending of –COOH) in different locations. The XRD showed that grain size was 113–180Å and crystallinity was 0.71–1.42%, and GRSP contained seven fluorescent compounds of tyrosine‐like, tryptophan‐like, fulvic acid‐like, soluble microbial byproduct, humic acid‐like, nitrobenzoxadidole‐like, and calcofluor white‐like. Both, EE‐GRSP and T‐GRSP positively associated with soil organic carbon (SOC), soil N (SON), soil P (SOP), alkali‐hydrolyzed N (AN), available P (AP), available K (AK), and soil water, while negatively associated with soil pH and soil bulk density. Structural equation model (SEM) analysis indicates that direct effects on GRSP amounts were mainly from soil bulk density (coefficient: –0.27), soil pH (coefficients: –0.51 to –0.57), SOC (coefficients: 0.51 to 0.69) and AP (coefficients: 0.18 to 0.26), while all other soil properties had indirect effects on GRSP amounts via their close associations with these four parameters. Compared with the GRSP amounts, soil properties laid fewer effects on GRSP compositional traits. Of 16 compositional traits, five of them showed possible regulations from soil properties, which were three infrared functional groups (IR‐II: aliphatic C–H stretching; IR‐V: C–O stretching & O–H bending of –COOH; IR‐VII: O–H binding) and two fluorescent compounds (tyrosine‐like and humic acid‐like). SEM analysis indicates that soil water, pH and EC could directly affect IR‐II, IRV, tyrosine‐like and humic acid‐like, while available nutrients showed more evident influences on infra‐red functional groups than total amounts of N, P and K. Moreover, SOC, as a media of various soil nutrients, gave the strongest influence on GRSP compositional traits. As a supplement to previous studies, we found that GRSP is a mixture of different fluorescent compounds with different functional groups. Our findings highlight that soil properties could strongly change both GRSP accumulation in soil and their compositional traits, and the definition of the most probable soil properties in regulating glomalin amount and composition in this paper could favor good soil management in farmland at northeastern China.     

Glomalin in aggregate size classes from three different farming systems

Glomalin was measured in soil from farming systems managed for 8 years by chisel tillage (CT), more intensive tillage for organic (ORG) production, and no tillage (NT) on Acrisols (FAO Soil Units) in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Whole soil and aggregate size classes of >2.00, 0.50–2.00 and 0.21–0.50 mm (macroaggregates), 0.05–0.21 mm (microaggregates), and <0.05 mm (fine material) were examined. Glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) was extracted from 1-g samples (four plots per treatment) with 100 mM sodium pyrophosphate, pH 9.0, at 121 °C in three extraction cycles. Extracts were pooled and quantified by using the Bradford protein assay. Concentrations of GRSP and total carbon (C) in aggregates were linearly related across aggregate size classes for all treatments (GRSP = 0.101C + 0.56, r² = 0.95). No tillage had significantly greater whole soil GRSP than did CT or ORG (P = 0.01). Mean values for GRSP in aggregates of NT were higher than for CT or ORG aggregates by 0.53 and 0.66 mg g⁻¹ aggregates, respectively. There were no differences among treatments in GRSP concentrations in fine material. In NT the concentration of GRSP increased as aggregate size increased in contrast to the disturbed treatments, CT or ORG, where there were no differences in GRSP concentration across aggregate size fractions. Larger proportions of GRSP were distributed in macroaggregates of NT compared to CT and ORG in contrast to larger proportions in microaggregates of CT and ORG than in NT. Although soil disturbance in ORG farming is greater than for CT farming, both treatments had similar GRSP concentrations and distributions.     

Minimal direct contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to DOC leaching in grassland through losses of glomalin-related soil protein

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have multiple influences on ecosystem C cycling, but most research has focused on ecosystem C gains. We explore here the possibility of direct contributions of AMF to ecosystem C losses, namely via leaching of glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP). We tested the hypothesis that GRSP, an operationally defined SOM pool to which AMF contribute (especially as evidenced with monoclonal antibody MAb32B11-based detection), is mobile in soils and can be lost in leachate. For two New Zealand soils, we showed that only insignificant amounts of GRSP were lost: a maximum of 0.03% of MAb32B11-immunoreactive GRSP present in soils was lost during the week-long experiment, representing a minute fraction of total leachate dissolved organic carbon (0.06%). Our data showed that this pathway of C loss may be relatively unimportant in many soils. However, other indirect contributions of AMF to soil C losses remain yet to be explored.     

Arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi and glomalin-related soil protein drive the distributions of carbon and nitrogen in a large scale

Purpose

Arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi (AM-like fungi) are crucial for ecosystem functioning and soil organic matter (SOM) is an indicator of soil quality. However, the spatial distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi, glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) and SOM in a large scale is still unclear. The objectives of this study were to investigate the spatial distribution of SOM, arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi and GRSP, and reveal the potential relationship among them in a large scale across China.

Materials and methods

Soil samples (different in vegetation type, climate, and soil variables) were collected from 26 sites in a large scale across China. The soil properties including pH, total carbon (TC), total nitrogen (TN), and SOM were determined. Quantitative PCR amplification of the 18S rRNA gene was conducted to evaluate the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi. The contents of easily extractable GRSP (EE-GRSP), difficultly extractable GRSP (DE-GRSP), and total GRSP (T-GRSP) were measured.

Results and discussion

Arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi abundance was significantly affected by the vegetation type and dramatically correlated with the soil TN and mean annual precipitation (MAP). EE-GRSP and DE-GRSP were more associated with the TC and TN content, respectively. The abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi significantly but weakly correlated with the T-GRSP and EE-GRSP. The SOM content positively correlated with the DE-GRSP and T-GRSP. Those results suggested that the arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi are a larger contributor to regulating the content of GRSP, which is an important indicator of the soil organic carbon pool.

Conclusions

Our results indicated that arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi abundance has a greater contribution to driving the distribution of soil C and N in a large scale by affecting the content of glomalin-related soil protein.