Journal
AGRONOMY-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11040772
Keywords
crop management; next generation sequencing; soil microbiome; fertilization; cellulolytic spore-forming bacteria
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- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [SPUB 505-30-012600-L00280-99, 8762E-385SPUB201]
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The impact of crop management systems on cellulolytic bacteria was minimal, while the key factor shaping the SCB community was the use of farmyard manure (FYM) fertilization.
The ecology of cellulolytic bacteria in bulk soil is still relatively unknown. There is still only a handful of papers on the abundance and diversity of this group of bacteria. Our study aimed to determine the impact of various crop management systems and farmyard manure (FYM) fertilization on the abundance of cellulolytic and potentially cellulolytic spore-forming bacteria (SCB). The study site was a nearly 100-year-old fertilization experiment, one of the oldest still active field trials in Europe. The highest contents of total carbon (TC) and total nitrogen (TN) were recorded in both five-year rotations. The abundances of SCB and potential SCB were evaluated using classical microbiological methods, the most probable number (MPN), and 16S rRNA Illumina MiSeq sequencing. The highest MPN of SCB was recorded in soil with arbitrary rotation without legumes (ARP) fertilized with FYM (382 colony-forming units (CFU) mL(-1)). As a result of the bioinformatic analysis, the highest values of the Shannon-Wiener index and the largest number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were found in ARP-FYM, while the lowest in ARP treatment without FYM fertilization. In all treatments, those dominant at the order level were: Brevibacillales (13.1-43.4%), Paenibacillales (5.3-36.9%), Bacillales (4.0-0.9%). Brevibacillaceae (13.1-43.4%), Paenibacillaceae (8.2-36.9%), and Clostridiaceae (5.4-11.9%) dominated at the family level in all tested samples. Aneurinibacillaceae and Hungateiclostridiaceae families increased their overall share in FYM fertilization treatments. The results of our research show that the impact of crop management types on SCB was negligible while the actual factor shaping SCB community was the use of FYM fertilization.
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