Organic Fertilization in Traditional Mediterranean Grapevine Orchards Mediates Changes in Soil Microbial Community Structure and Enhances Soil Fertility

Soil microbial populations and their functions related to nutrient cycling contribute substantially to the regulation of soil fertility and the sustainability of agroecosystems. A field experiment was performed to assess the medium‐term effect of a mineral fertilizer and two organic fertilization systems with different nitrogen sources on the soil microbial community biomass, structure, and composition (phospholipid fatty acids, pattern, and abundance), microbial activity (basal respiration, dehydrogenase, protease, urease, β‐glucosidase, and total amount of phosphomonoesterase activities), and physical (aggregate stability) and chemical (total organic C, total N, available P and water‐soluble carbohydrates) properties in a vineyard under semiarid Mediterranean conditions after a period of 10 years. The three fertilization systems assayed were as follows: inorganic fertilization, addition of grapevine pruning with sheep manure (OPM), and addition of grapevine pruning with a legume cover crop (OPL). Both treatments, OPM and OPL, produced higher contents of total organic carbon, total N, available P, water‐soluble carbohydrates, and stable aggregates. The organic fertilization systems increased microbial biomass, shifted the structure and composition of the soil microbial community, and stimulated microbial activity, when compared with inorganic fertilization. The abundances of fungi and G+ bacteria were increased by treatments OPM and OPL, without significant differences between them. Organic and inorganic fertilization produced similar grapevine yields. The ability of the organic fertilization systems for promoting the sustainability and soil biological and chemical fertility of an agroecosystem under semiarid conditions was dependent of the organic N source. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

长期无机有机肥配施对红壤性水稻土微生物群落多样性及酶活性的影响

【目的】长期有机与无机肥配合施用是促进农田生产力和土壤有机碳固定的重要技术途径。本文以江西省红壤研究所长期不同施肥试验田的表土(0—15 cm)为对象,探讨不同施肥措施对土壤微生物群落多样性和酶活性的影响。【方法】在水稻收获后,采集表土壤样品,提取土壤总DNA。采用聚合酶链反应结合变性梯度凝胶电泳(PCR-DGGE)的方法研究土壤微生物的群落结构多样性,并结合克隆测序研究土壤微生物的群落组成;用实时荧光定量PCR(q PCR)的方法研究土壤微生物的丰度。土壤细菌定量和群落结构分析的分子标靶基因分别为16S rRNA基因V3区和V6区片段,土壤真菌定量和群落结构分析的标靶基因均为18S rRNA基因。DGGE分析采用8%的聚丙烯酰胺凝胶分离细菌和真菌,所用变性梯度分别为35%65%和20%40%。同时采用荧光微孔板检测技术测定土壤几丁质酶、α-葡萄糖苷酶、β-葡萄糖苷酶、纤维素酶、酸性磷酸单脂酶和木聚糖酶活性;用紫外分光光度计法测定土壤过氧化物酶活性。【结果】PCR-DGGE分析表明,与不施肥对照(CK)相比,有机无机肥配施(NPKM),土壤细菌的香农指数和丰富度指数显著增大,而土壤真菌的香农指数和丰富度指数在不同施肥处理间无显著差异。DGGE图谱聚类分析显示,NPKM处理的土壤细菌和真菌的群落结构显著区别于其他3个处理。后续的切胶测序得出,土壤细菌分属于Chloroflexi(绿弯菌门),Proteobacteria(变形菌门)和Firmicutes(厚壁菌门);NPKM处理下隶属于Clostridum(梭菌属)和Anaerolineaceae(厌氧绳菌科)的两类细菌显著增加。土壤真菌主要分属于Basidiomycota(担子菌门)和Ascomycota(子囊菌门),这些真菌条带在DGGE图谱上的分布不同处理间均无明显的规律性,因而不同处理间真菌的群落分布未出现较清晰的变化。q PCR的结果显示,土壤细菌和真菌拷贝数在不同处理间无显著差异。土壤酶的检测结果表明,与CK相比,单施氮肥(N)处理的土壤几丁质酶活性显著提高,常规氮磷钾处理(NPK)处理的几丁质酶和α-葡萄糖苷酶活性显著增强,NPKM处理提高了土壤几丁质酶、纤维素酶和过氧化物酶活性;酸性磷酸单酯酶和木聚糖酶活性在各处理间无显著差异。归一化酶活性值,NPKM处理显著高于CK和其他施肥处理。【结论】长期有机无机肥配施可显著提高土壤细菌多样性,并改变土壤细菌和真菌的群落结构,提高土壤酶活性,因而提高了农田生态系统的生产力并对生态系统健康有改善作用。     

Long-term fertilization regimes affect bacterial community structure and diversity of an agricultural soil in northern China

Background, Aims, and Scope  Knowledge about shifts of microbial community structure and diversity following different agricultural management practices could improve our understanding of soil processes and thus help us to develop sound management strategies. A long-term fertilization experiment was established in 1989 at Fengqiu (35°00′N, 114°24′E) in northern China. The soil (sandy loam) is classified as aquic inceptisols and has received continuous fertilization treatments since then. The fertilization treatments included control (CK, no fertilizer), chemical fertilizers nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) (NK), phosphorous (P) and K (PK), NP, NPK, organic manure (OM), and half chemical fertilizers NPK plus half organic manure (1/2NPKOM). The objective of this study was to examine if the microbial community structure and diversity were affected by the long-term fertilization regimes. Materials and Methods  Soil samples were collected from the long-term experimental plots with seven treatments and four replications in April 2006. Microbial DNAs were extracted from the soil samples and the 16S rRNA genes were PCR amplified. The PCR products were analyzed by DGGE, cloning and sequencing. The bacterial community structures and diversity were assessed using the DGGE profiles and the clone libraries constructed from the excised DGGE bands. Results  The bacterial community structure of the OM and PK treatments were significantly different from those of all other treatments. The bacterial community structures of the four Ncontaining treatments (NK, NP, NPK and 1/2NPKOM), as well as CK, were more similar to each other. The changes in bacterial community structures of the OM and PK treatments showed higher richness and diversity. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that Proteobacteria (30.5%) was the dominant taxonomic group of the soil, followed by Acidobacteria (15.3%), Gemmatimonadetes (12.7%), etc. Discussion  Irrespective of the two fertilization treatments of OM and PK, the cluster analysis showed that bacterial communities of the remaining five treatments of CK, NK, NP, NPK and 1/2NPKOM seemed to be more similar to each other, which indicated the relatively weak effects of the four N-containing treatments on soil bacterial communities. N fertilizer may be considered as a key factor to counteract the effects of other fertilizers on microbial communities. Conclusions  Our results show that long-term fertilization regimes can affect bacterial community structure and diversity of the agricultural soil. The OM and PK treatments showed a trend towards distinct community structures, higher richness and diversity when compared to the other treatments. Contrasting to the positive effects of OM and PK treatments on the bacterial communities, N fertilizer could be considered as a key factor in the soil to counteract the effects of other fertilizers on soil microbial communities. Recommendations and Perspectives  Because of the extremely high abundance and diversity of microorganisms in soil and the high heterogeneity of the soil, it is necessary to further examine the effects of fertilization regimes on microbial community and diversity in different type soils for comprehensively understanding their effects through the appropriate combination of molecular approaches. ESS-Submission Editor: Chengrong Chen, PhD (c.chen@griffith.edu.au)     

基于宏基因组学方法分析施肥模式对设施菜田土壤微生物群落的影响

[目的]采用宏基因组测序技术,研究施肥对细菌、真菌和古菌群落组成和结构的影响,为设施菜田可持续健康发展提供科学依据.[方法]设施蔬菜施肥长期定位试验始于2009年,试验地位于天津市西青区,为春季番茄和秋冬季芹菜轮作体系.在春茬番茄(第20茬蔬菜)盛果期,选择定位试验中的6个等氮磷钾投入处理,包括全部使用化肥氮(4/4C...     

Micro-scale distribution of microorganisms and microbial enzyme activities in a soil with long-term organic amendment

Microbial ecology is the key to understanding the function of biodiversity for organic matter cycling in the soil. We have investigated the impacts of farmyard manure added over 120 years on organic matter content, enzyme activities, total microbial biomass and structure of microbial populations in several particle‐size fractions of a Luvic Phaeozem a few kilometres northeast of Halle, Germany. We compared two treatments: no fertilization (control) and 12 t farmyard manure (FYM) ha^?1 year^?1 since 1878. The fine fractions contained most C and N, microbial biomass, total amount of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and greatest invertase activity. Xylanase activity as well as fungal biomass increased only gradually with diminishing particle size, whereas the relative abundance of fungi decreased with diminishing particle size. The least diversity of the soil microbial community, indicated by the smallest Shannon index based on the abundance and amount of different PLFAs and small number of terminal restriction fragments (T‐RFs) of 16S rRNA genes, was in the sand fractions. The results supported the hypothesis that this microhabitat is colonized by a less complex bacterial community than the silt and clay fractions. Addition of FYM had enhanced the amount of organic matter, total microbial biomass, and xylanase and invertase activity, and induced a shift of the microbial community towards a more bacteria‐dominated community in the coarse sand fraction. Microbial communities in finer fractions were less affected by addition of FYM.     

Contrasting development of soil microbial community structure under no-tilled perennial and tilled cropping during early pedogenesis of a Mollisol

A range of agricultural practices influence soil microbial communities, such as tillage and organic C inputs, however such effects are largely unknown at the initial stage of soil formation. Using an eight-year field experiment established on exposed parent material (PM) of a Mollisol, our objectives were to: (1) to determine the effects of field management and soil depth on soil microbial community structure; (2) to elucidate shifts in microbial community structure in relation to PM, compared to an arable Mollisol (MO) without organic amendment; and (3) to identify the controlling factors of such changes in microbial community structure. The treatments included two no-tilled soils supporting perennial crops, and four tilled soils under the same cropping system, with or without chemical fertilization and crop residue amendment. Principal component (PC) analysis of phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiles demonstrated that microbial community structures were affected by tillage and/or organic and inorganic inputs via PC1 and by land use and/or soil depth via PC2. All the field treatments were separated by PM into two groups via PC1, the tilled and the no-tilled soils, with the tilled soils more developed towards MO. The tilled soils were separated with respect to MO via PC1 associated with the differences in mineral fertilization and the quality of organic amendments, with the soils without organic amendment being more similar to MO. The separations via PC1 were principally driven by bacteria and associated with soil pH and soil C, N and P. The separations via PC2 were driven by fungi, actinomycetes and Gram (−) bacteria, and associated with soil bulk density. The separations via both PC1 and PC2 were associated with soil aggregate stability and exchangeable K, indicating the effects of weathering and soil aggregation. The results suggest that in spite of the importance of mineral fertilization and organic amendments, tillage and land-use type play a significant role in determining the nature of the development of associated soil microbial community structures at the initial stages of soil formation.     

长期施用化肥对红壤性水稻土中微生物生物量、活性及群落结构的影响

利用化肥长期定位试验,研究了施肥对土壤微生物生物量、活性及其群落结构的影响.结果表明:与不施肥相比,长期施用化肥不仅增加了土壤微生物生物量,而且导致了土壤微生物群落结构的分异.其中,有机无机配施处理和2倍NPK配施处理显著提高了土壤有机质含量、全N含量、土壤微生物生物量和土壤微生物活性.NPK均衡施肥处理对土壤有机质、土壤微生物生物量及其活性的影响小于非均衡施肥的处理(NP、NK、N、P、K),适当增施K肥有利于提高土壤微生物中真菌的比例.     

Independent roles of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic communities in soil organic matter decomposition

The relative roles of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) and saprotrophic communities in controlling the decomposition of soil organic matter remain unclear. We tested the hypothesis that ECM community structure and activity influences the breakdown of nutrient-rich biopolymers in soils, while saprotrophic communities primarily regulate the breakdown of carbon-rich biopolymers. To test this hypothesis, we used high-throughput techniques to measure ECM and saprotrophic community structure, soil resource availability, and extracellular enzyme activity in whole soils and on ECM root tips in a coastal pine forest. We found that ECM and saprotroph richness did not show spatial structure and did not co-vary with any soil resource. However, species richness of ECM fungi explained variation in the activity of enzymes targeting recalcitrant N sources (protease and peroxidase) in bulk soil. Activity of carbohydrate- and organic P- targeting enzymes (e.g. cellobiohydrolase, β-glucosidase, α-glucosidase, hemicellulases, N-acetyl-glucosaminidase, and acid phosphatase) was correlated with saprotroph community structure and soil resource abundance (total soil C, N, and moisture), both of which varied along the soil profile. These observations suggest independent roles of ECM fungi and saprotrophic fungi in the cycling of N-rich, C-rich, and P-rich molecules through soil organic matter. Enzymatic activity on ECM root tips taken from the same soil cores used for bulk enzyme analysis did not correlate with the activity of any enzyme measured in the bulk soil, suggesting that ECM contributions to larger-scale soil C and nutrient cycling may occur primarily via extramatrical hyphae outside the rhizosphere.     

腐熟羊粪有机肥配施无机肥对植烟土壤微生物群落结构和多样性的影响

为了探究腐熟羊粪有机肥与无机肥配施对洛阳烟区植烟土壤微生物群落结构和土壤肥力特性的影响，采用盆栽控制试验和高通量测序技术，研究了不施肥（CK）、100%无机氮肥（T0）、50%羊粪有机肥氮+50%无机氮肥（T50）和100%羊粪有机肥氮（T100）4个处理下植烟土壤细菌和真菌群落结构及多样性的差异，并结合土壤理化性质分析了土壤肥力指标与土壤微生物多样性的关系。结果表明：植烟土壤细菌优势菌门为变形菌门（Proteobacteria）、酸杆菌门（Acidobacteria）和放线菌门（Actinobacteria），土壤真菌优势菌门为子囊菌门（Ascomycota）和担子菌门（Basidiomycota）；T50处理的变形菌门、酸杆菌门和子囊菌门相对丰度最高，但放线菌门和担子菌门相对丰度最低；NMDS分析和相似性分析发现，T50处理的土壤微生物群落结构与其他处理差异显著；Alpha多样性分析也表明，T50处理土壤细菌和真菌群落的丰富度和多样性最高。不同处理土壤理化性质和土壤关键酶活性差异显著，以T50处理土壤养分含量和土壤碳氮代谢酶的活性最高；Pearson相关性分析显示，土壤碱解氮、有效磷、速效钾含量及蛋白酶和脲酶活性与植烟土壤微生物多样的关系最为密切。总之，采用腐熟羊粪有机肥和无机肥配施通过影响植烟土壤细菌和真菌群落结构和多样性，促进了土壤养分的释放和转化，有利于土壤养分的供应和土壤质量的提升，研究结果为洛阳烟区应用羊粪有机肥改良土壤提供了理论依据。     

有机无机肥配施对日光温室番茄连作土壤微生物的影响

  目的  为解决日光温室番茄连作障碍,必须弄清有机无机肥配施对番茄连作土壤微生物的影响。  方法  试验共设置6个处理,分别为不施肥（CK）、20%有机肥 + 80%化肥（M20C80）、40%有机肥 + 60%化肥（M40C60）、60%有机肥 + 40%化肥（M60C40）、80%有机肥 + 20%化肥（M80C20）、100%有机肥 + 0%化肥（M100）。测定了连作土壤理化性质、细菌和真菌的微生物群落结构、物种组成和丰度等相关指标。  结果  M40C60处理使连作土壤孔隙度在54.38% ~ 55.61%,pH维持在7.19 ~ 7.22,有机质和速效钾含量分别维持在49.70 ~ 59.21 g kg?1和536.1 ~ 605.5 mg kg?1的中等水平,速效磷含量则维持在680.4 ~ 783.0 mg kg?1的高水平。增施有机肥,可以改善土壤微生物群落组成,分别提高芽孢杆菌（Bacillus）、土胞杆菌（Terrisporbacter）、链霉菌（Streptomyces）以及头束霉菌（Cephalotrichum）等有益菌群落相对丰度0.86%、0.60%、0.12%和47.82%,降低变形菌（Proteobacteria）酸杆菌（Acidobacteriota）等有害菌群落相对丰度3.47%和1.74%。  结论  增施有机肥改善番茄连作土壤的基础理化性质,保持土壤中的养分含量。同时有益于微生物群落演替,维持或提高有益菌群的丰度,抑制或降低有害菌群的丰度,使连作土壤维持在一个较稳定的微生物群落结构。减少番茄连作土壤病害的发生,维持良好的土壤状态。     

Microbial community composition and rhizodeposit-carbon assimilation in differently managed temperate grassland soils

Rhizodeposit-carbon provides a major energy source for microbial growth in the rhizosphere of grassland soils. However, little is known about the microbial communities that mediate the rhizosphere carbon dynamics, especially how their activity is influenced by changes in soil management. We combined a ¹³CO₂ pulse-labeling experiment with phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis in differently managed Belgian grasslands to identify the active rhizodeposit-C assimilating microbial communities in these grasslands and to evaluate their response to management practices. Experimental treatments consisted of three mineral N fertilization levels (0, 225 and 450 kg N ha⁻¹ y⁻¹) and two mowing frequencies (3 and 5 times y⁻¹). Phospholipid fatty acids were extracted from surface (0-5 cm) bulk (BU) and root-adhering (RA) soil samples prior to and 24 h after pulse-labeling and were analyzed by gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-c-IRMS). Soil habitats significantly differed in microbial community structure (as revealed by multivariate analysis of mol% biomarker PLFAs) as well as in gram-positive bacterial rhizodeposit-C uptake (as revealed by greater ¹³C-PLFA enrichment following pulse-labeling in RA compared to BU soil in the 450N/5M treatment). Mowing frequency did not significantly alter the relative abundance (mol%) or activity (¹³C enrichment) of microbial communities. In the non-fertilized treatment, the greatest ¹³C enrichment was seen in all fungal biomarker PLFAs (C16:1ω5, C18:1ω9, C18:2ω6,9 and C18:3ω3,6,9), which demonstrates a prominent contribution of fungi in the processing of new photosynthate-C in non-fertilized grassland soils. In all treatments, the lowest ¹³C enrichment was found in gram-positive bacterial and actinomycetes biomarker PLFAs. Fungal biomarker PLFAs had significantly lower ¹³C enrichment in the fertilized compared to non-fertilized treatments in BU soil (C16:1ω5, C18:1ω9) as well as RA soil (all fungal biomarkers). While these observations clearly indicated a negative effect of N fertilization on fungal assimilation of plant-derived C, the effect of N fertilization on fungal abundance could only be detected for the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) PLFA (C16:1ω5). On the other hand, increases in the relative abundance of gram-positive bacterial PLFAs with N fertilization were found without concomitant increases in ¹³C enrichment following pulse-labeling. We conclude that in situ¹³C pulse-labeling of PLFAs is an effective tool to detect functional changes of those microbial communities that are dominantly involved in the immediate processing of new rhizosphere-C.     

Responses of soil microarthropods to inorganic and organic fertilizers in a poplar plantation in a coastal area of eastern China

Soil microarthropod community is an essential functional unit of soil food webs. Fertilizers can induce an alteration of quantity and quality of food for soil fauna and trigger profound changes in soil faunal communities. We initiated this study to examine the influence of organic and inorganic fertilizers on soil microarthropods in poplar plantations (Populus deltoides) in a coastal region of northern Jiangsu, eastern China. We established a control and four fertilizer application treatments: low and high levels of organic fertilizers, low and high levels of inorganic fertilizers. Organic fertilizer amendments increased both soil organic carbon (C) and total nitrogen (N), whereas inorganic fertilizer had a positive significant effect on soil total N. The application of both inorganic and organic fertilizers resulted in significantly reduced soil pH. We found that both inorganic and organic fertilizers increased the abundance of all soil microarthropods, bacterivorous Acari, and hemiedaphic and epedaphic Collembola, but had no influence on the total taxonomic richness, Shannon diversity index and DG diversity index of the microarthropod community. The abundance of soil microarthropods was positively correlated with soil C and N, and negatively with pH. Our results indicate that changes in the quality and quantity of soil organic matter and other immediate chemical properties after fertilizer application can increase the abundance of soil microarthropods, but have a limited influence on their diversity in the coastal alkaline soils of eastern China.     

不同施肥处理对植烟土壤细菌群落的影响

摘　要 ：施肥对维持烟草土壤微生物生态平衡和改善土壤质量起着十分重要的作用，但无机化肥、有机肥和有机无机复混肥料长期施用后，植烟土壤微生物群落的响应差异尚不明确。基于此科学问题，应用定量PCR技术和高通量测序技术研究施用有机肥（YJ）、有机无机肥（YW）和无机肥（WJ）3年后，土壤理化性质和细菌群落结构、数量和功能的变化。结果显示不同施肥处理下，土壤理化性质发生改变，其中WJ和YJ处理降低了土壤pH值，但YJ处理能显著提升土壤有机质含量，而YW处理在维持土壤pH的同时提高土壤速效养分和有机质含量。土壤细菌数量、群落结构和功能也相应的发生变化，YJ和YW处理土壤中的细菌16S rRNA基因拷贝数显著高WJ，YW处理的土壤细菌群落alpha多样性最高。主坐标分析和ANOSIM检验进一步表明，影响土壤细菌群落结构的最主要因素是土壤pH。此外，施肥3年后土壤中部分益生菌相对丰度也发生明显的变化，YW处理土壤中Gemmatimonadaceae、Micrococcaceae和Haliangiaceae等植物促生菌的丰度显著较高，YJ处理土壤中Intrasporangiaceae、Xanthomonadaceae、Chitinophagaceae、Burkholderiaceae等具有固氮或生防功能的细菌丰度较高，YW和YJ处理均增加了固氮菌Rhizobiaceae的丰度。细菌群落结构的改变进一步影响了细菌群落的功能，YW处理显著增加了土壤细菌群落的硝化功能。本研究结果可为烟叶生产中合理施肥提供科学依据。     

长期不同施肥措施下塿土细菌群落结构变化及其主要影响因素

? 【目的】 ?研究不同施肥处理下土壤细菌群落的特征,为建立促进土壤生态系统稳定和健康的养分管理制度提供依据。? 【方法】 ?陕西省杨凌示范区“国家黄土肥力与肥料效益监测基地”的28年长期定位试验始于1990年秋,种植制度为冬小麦–夏休闲,无灌溉。本研究选取定位试验中不施肥 (CK)、施用氮磷钾肥 (N、P₂O₅、K₂O分别为135、108、67.5 kg/hm2,NPK) 和有机无机肥配施 (70% N来自牛粪,MNPK) 3个处理。于2018年6月小麦收获后采集0—20 cm耕层土样,测定养分含量、含水量、微生物量碳含量、微生物量氮含量及目标土壤微生物。以1%琼脂糖凝胶电泳法检测土壤中DNA,根据97%相似度对序列进行OTU聚类、α多样性分析 (包括Shannon、ACE和Chao1等指数),使用CANOCO 4.5软件对土壤细菌门水平群落结构、细菌相对丰度等与土壤理化性质进行冗余分析。? 【结果】 ?与CK相比,NPK和MNPK处理显著提高了土壤有机碳、全氮、微生物量碳、微生物量氮、硝态氮和铵态氮含量,显著降低了土壤pH值。不同处理细菌基因拷贝数为每克干土6.69 × 109～16.46 × 109,与CK相比,NPK和MNPK处理细菌数量分别提高了77%和146%。MNPK处理的土壤细菌Shannon多样性指数显著高于CK和NPK处理,而Simpson指数显著低于CK和NPK处理,NPK与CK处理间两个指数无显著差异。3个处理的细菌丰富度指数 (Chao1指数和ACE指数) 和均匀度指数均没有显著差异。在门水平上,共获得35个细菌类群,其中,放线菌门 (Actinobacteria)、变形菌门 (Proteobacteria)、酸杆菌门 (Acidobacteria) 和绿弯菌门 (Chloroflexi) 为主要优势菌门 (相对丰度 > 10%),占到全部菌门的80.1%～81.7%。与CK相比,MNPK处理显著降低了放线菌门 (F = 5.845,P < 0.05) 的相对丰度,增加了拟杆菌门 (F = 4.461,P < 0.05) 的相对丰度,3个处理间其他菌门均无显著差异。冗余分析结果显示,CK与NPK、MNPK处理的土壤细菌群落结构具有明显差异,且MNPK处理对土壤细菌群落组成的影响更大。土壤理化性质对细菌菌群影响表现为:土壤硝态氮 > 可溶性有机碳 > pH > 铵态氮 > 有机碳 > 土壤含水量,这些理化因子均是影响微生物生长的关键因子。? 【结论】 ?关中土区旱作雨养条件下,化肥平衡施用和有机无机肥配施均显著提高了土壤中细菌数量、多样性和丰富度,有机无机肥配施还改变了细菌群落结构,特别是降低了放线菌门、增加了拟杆菌门的丰度,更有利于土壤生态系统的稳定和健康。     

冬麦免耕覆盖栽培对土壤丛枝菌根真菌多样性的影响

为揭示冬麦免耕覆盖栽培管理措施对土壤丛枝菌根真菌多样性的影响,以农田土壤生态系统为研究对象,利用Illumina MiSeq平台通过高通量测序的方法,对连续免耕覆盖栽培及有机肥管理下冬麦土壤丛枝菌根真菌群落组成及其与土壤环境因子间的相互关系进行研究。结果表明,丛枝菌根(AM)真菌在97%相似度下共获得4 515个AM真菌的操作分类单元(OTUs),分属于1门3纲4目8科10属155种。不同处理中,类球囊霉属(Paraglomus),球囊霉属(Glomus)和近明球囊霉(Claroideoglomus)为优势属,受农业综合管理措施中有机肥施用、免耕覆盖因子的影响,近明球囊霉、有隔球囊霉属相对丰度在不同处理间存在显著差异(P<0.05)。与耕作、不覆盖相比,免耕、覆盖措施提高了AM真菌多样性指数,但降低了AM真菌属的丰富度;与无肥条件相比,有机肥施用提高了AM真菌丰富度指数,但降低了AM真菌多样性指数。多元分析结果表明,土壤全磷及速效磷含量是影响AM真菌群落组成中优势属丰度变化的主要因素。免耕覆盖、有机栽培改变了土壤AM真菌的多样性及丰富度,土壤中丰度较低的AM真菌菌属更容易受到有机肥施用的影响;有机肥与免耕、覆盖管理的交互作用对AM真菌近明球囊霉属相对丰度有显著影响(P<0.05)。AM真菌群落对耕作覆盖、有机肥施用管理活动的响应受到农业综合管理活动及其相关因素交互作用的影响。本研究结果为合理农作物免耕覆盖、有机栽培管理提供了理论依据。     

长期施用化肥对塿土微生物多样性的影响

【目的】土壤微生物在土壤有机质分解、营养循环、植物生长等方面都发挥着重要作用,研究长期施用化肥对其产生的影响可为农田合理施用化肥、培肥土壤和高产高效可持续性农业生产提供理论依据。【方法】以陕西杨凌"国家黄土肥力与肥料效益监测基地"的长期定位试验为基础,利用BIOLOG分析并结合常规分析研究了6种长期不同化肥施用方式不施肥(CK)、单施氮肥(N)、氮钾配施(NK)、磷钾配施(PK)、氮磷配施(NP)和氮磷钾配施(NPK)对土土壤微生物量和微生物功能多样性的影响。【结果】与不施肥CK相比,长期单施氮肥(N)的SMBC、SMBN没有显著变化,但明显降低了土壤微生物商和土壤微生物对氮素的利用;NP和NPK配施能够显著增加土SMBC和SMBN含量,明显提高了土壤微生物商,使土壤微生物种群结构发生了明显变化但土壤微生物对氮素的利用没有显著提高;长期偏施肥处理(NK、PK)的SMBC、SMBN和微生物商虽轻微增加,但土壤微生物种群结构没有显著改变。BIOLOG分析结果显示施磷处理(PK、NP和NPK)对微生物代谢活性的促进作用较大且在培养初期代谢活性较不施磷处理(CK、N和NK)增加显著。长期单施氮肥(N)对于提高土壤微生物多样性没有显著作用而其他化肥施用处理可以提高土土壤微生物群落的碳源利用能力、物种的丰富度和优势度,其中NP和NPK处理配施效果最好。化肥施用对土土壤微生物群落的均匀度没有显著影响。主成分分析的结果表明不同处理的土壤微生物对碳源利用表现出显著差异,氮磷养分的差异是产生分异的主要原因。【结论】土区小麦玉米轮作下,平衡施肥(NP或NPK配施)对于改善农田土壤微生物特性具有良好作用。     

Long-term fertilization regimes influence FAME profiles of microbial communities in an arable sandy loam soil in Northern China

Soil samples collected from a long-term (19-year) experimental field with seven treatments were analyzed for fatty acids methyl esters (FAMEs) to determine fertilization regime effects on microbial community structure in sandy loam soils. The amounts of FAMEs in bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi were highest with the two organic manure (OM)-fertilized treatments (OM and 1/2 OMN – half OM plus half mineral fertilizer), lowest with the NK treatment, and fell in the middle levels with three mineral P-fertilized treatments (NPK, NP and PK) and the control with no fertilizer (CK), with the exception of fungi which showed no significant difference among the five treatments without OM fertilization. Principal component analysis of FAME patterns indicated that NPK was not significantly different from CK, but the two manure-containing treatments and the P-deficiency treatment (NK) were significantly different from CK and NPK. Redundancy analysis plot showed that FAME amounts significantly correlated to soil organic C and total N contents, while soil available P and total P contents, which were greatly decreased by the NK treatment, also had positive and substantial effects on soil microbial FAMEs. The results demonstrated the importance of P fertilization as well as organic manure in maintaining soil microbial biomass and impacting community structure.     

Responses of soil microbial communities and functions associated with organic carbon mineralization to nitrogen addition in a Tibetan grassland

Alpine grasslands with a high soil organic carbon(SOC) storage on the Tibetan Plateau are experiencing rapid climate warming and anthropogenic nitrogen(N) deposition; this is expected to substantially increase the soil N availability, which may impact carbon(C) cycling. However, little is known regarding how N enrichment influences soil microbial communities and functions relative to C cycling in this region. We conducted a 4-year field experiment on an alpine grassland to evaluate the effects o...     

Soil carbon quality and nitrogen fertilization structure bacterial communities with predictable responses of major bacterial phyla

Agricultural practices affect the soil ecosystem in multiple ways and the soil microbial communities represent an integrated and dynamic measure of soil status. Our aim was to test whether the soil bacterial community and the relative abundance of major bacterial phyla responded predictably to long-term organic amendments representing different carbon qualities (peat and straw) in combination with nitrogen fertilization levels and if certain bacterial groups were indicative of specific treatments. We hypothesized that the long-term treatments had created distinctly different ecological niches for soil bacteria, suitable for either fast-growing copiotrophic bacteria, or slow-growing oligotrophic bacteria. Based on terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism of the 16S rRNA genes from the total soil bacterial community and taxa-specific quantitative real-time PCR of seven different groups, all treatments significantly affected the community structure, but nitrogen fertilization was the most important driver for changes in the relative abundances of the studied taxa. According to an indicator species analysis, the changes were largely explained by the decline in the relative abundances of Acidobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes and Verrucomicrobia with nitrogen fertilization. Conditions more favourable for copiotrophic life strategies were indicated in these plots by the decreased metabolic quotient, i.e. the ratio between basal respiration rate and soil biomass. Apart from the Alphaproteobacteria that were significantly associated with peat, no taxa were indicative of organic amendment in general. However, several significant indicators of both peat and straw were identified among the terminal restriction fragments suggesting that changes induced by the organic amendments were mainly manifested at a lower taxonomical level. Our findings strengthen the proposition that certain higher bacterial taxa adapt in an ecologically coherent way in response to changes induced by fertilization.     

Ectomycorrhizal community and extracellular enzyme activity following simulated atmospheric N deposition

Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi are abundant in temperate and boreal ecosystems and are understood to be an important means whereby plants can fulfill their nutrition requirements. The extent of the EM fungal involvement in accessing organic sources of N, however, remains unknown. Some EM fungi have been found to produce lignolytic and proteolytic enzymes which are necessary to depolymerize organic substrates, but this ability varies by species. Both EM fungal communities and the activities of lignolytic and proteolytic enzymes may be sensitive to changes in inorganic N availability such as through increased atmospheric deposition. Our objectives were to simulate an ecologically relevant increase in atmospheric N deposition in areas currently receiving very little exogenous N and examine changes in EM community composition, lignin degrading enzyme activity, and soil protein depolymerization. We found a distinct shift in the EM community composition following simulated atmospheric N deposition. Likewise, we found a significant decrease in the activity of lignin degrading enzymes, which could have important implications on ecosystem N and C cycling. Contrary to our hypotheses, proteolysis increased following N addition. The fact that lignolytic and proteolytic enzymes exhibit opposite responses is counterintuitive and suggests much is yet to be learned about how N addition affects global C storage by affecting the decomposition of organic matter. Our data suggest small increases in atmospheric N deposition could produce significant changes in communities of EM fungi and N and C cycles.