Journal
PLANT AND SOIL
Volume 481, Issue 1-2, Pages 111-126Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05622-y
Keywords
Fermented potato Fertilizer; Soil microbial community; Comammox; AOA; AOB
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2021YFD1700803]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LZ21C030002]
- Ningxia Key Research and Development Program [2019BBF02028]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41877044]
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The study demonstrated that fermented potato fertilizer significantly increased crop yields by 165-399%, improved soil nutrient content and enzyme activity, and enhanced microbial diversity in soil. The findings suggest that fermented potato fertilizer can modulate soil nitrification strategy and enhance crop yield by changing the niche of soil functional microorganisms.
Aims Potato starch wastewater contains higher contents of essential nutrients, which can be fertilizer to help crop growth. However, the effects of fermented potato fertilizer on soil ecology and microbial community structure have not yet been elucidated. This study aimed to investigate the shifts of active ammonia oxidation microbial communities under different fertilization in a typical soil in North China. Methods The different levels of fermented potato fertilizer without or with chemical fertilizer were designed by field experiment. Results The results showed that applying fermented potato fertilizer could significantly increase crop yields by 165-399% compared to Control. The content of available soil nutrients and the activity of saccharase and cellulase were increased when fermented potato fertilizer was applied, and the combination fertilizers further increased the content of Olsen-P by 145.6-166.7%, NO3- by 15.2-81.1%, Total C by 13.8-14%, and Total N by 27.2-34.7% compared with fermented potato fertilizer (PW) treatments. In addition the fermented potato fertilizer significantly stimulated the diversity of soil microbial community and increased the differentiation and stability of soil microbial networks in deep soils. Finally, the change of niche of soil Comammox (COM), ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) were found after PW treatments. It showed a significant positive correlation between AOA and COM (r = 0.79, P < 0.01), AOB and NOB (r = 0.7, P < 0.05) instead of theoretically the competitive relationship between AOA and COM. Conclusions One of the reasons crop yield increase is that fermented potato fertilizer can modulate soil nitrification strategy bychanging the niche of soil functional microorganisms to increase fast-acting nutrients and increase crop yield.
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