Article
Environmental Sciences
Yuqin Liang, Liang Wei, Shuang Wang, Can Hu, Mouliang Xiao, Zhenke Zhu, Yangwu Deng, Xiaohong Wu, Yakov Kuzyakov, Jianping Chen, Tida Ge
Summary: Microbial volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can suppress plant pathogens, but the influence of fertilization on microbial VOC-mediated suppression of pathogens is still unclear.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Yinghua Duan, Hongbo Yang, Tianhao Shi, Wenju Zhang, Minggang Xu, Suduan Gao
Summary: This study found that long-term fertilization regimes had a significant impact on nitrogen partitioning in soil aggregates and the availability of plant-available nitrogen. Fertilization treatments resulted in increased formation of macroaggregates, higher plant-available nitrogen content in aggregates, and a larger amount of soluble nitrogen, contributing to high field yields.
SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Soil Science
Xueli Ding, Bin Zhang, Qi Chen, Hongbo He, William R. Horwath, Xudong Zhang
Summary: The conversion of grassland into cropland decreased the assimilation rate of nitrogen into microbial residues, while enhancing responses depending on carbon sources. The addition of available and complex carbon substrates in cropland triggered different accumulation patterns of (15) N-amino sugars. Conversion of grassland suppressed nitrogen immobilization activities of both fungi and bacteria.
BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Suhui Ma, Guoping Chen, Enzai Du, Di Tian, Aijun Xing, Haihua Shen, Chengjun Ji, Chengyang Zheng, Jianxiao Zhu, Jiangling Zhu, Hanyue Huang, Hongbo He, Biao Zhu, Jingyun Fang
Summary: The study found that N deposition has a significant impact on the accumulation of soil microbial residues and their contribution to SOC in different forest ecosystems, specifically affecting the fungal residues and bacterial residues in various forest types. The responses of microbial residue-C in SOC to N addition are dependent on changes in soil total N concentration and the fungi to bacteria ratio under N addition and climate conditions.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Riping Gao, Yu Duan, Jun Zhang, Yongfeng Ren, Huanchun Li, Xiaoyue Liu, Peiyi Zhao, Yupeng Jing
Summary: Long-term irrational fertilizer inputs affect soil nutrient conditions in the agro-pastoral ecotone of North China. This study found that different fertilizer types have varying effects on soil physicochemical properties and microbial communities. CFM maintains higher soil fertility and a healthy ecosystem, while CF increases the risk of crop infection with soil-borne diseases.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bin Zhou, Xianqing Zheng, Zhengyi Zhu, Qin Qin, Ke Song, Lijuan Sun, Yafei Sun, Yue Zhang, Weiguang Lv, Yong Xue
Summary: This study investigated the effects of organic and chemical fertilizers on the degradation of phthalate esters (PAEs) in plastic-shed soils used for watermelon planting. The results showed that fertilization, especially the application of organic fertilizers, significantly influenced the degradation of PAEs. Different fertilization treatments had specific biomarkers associated with PAEs and their metabolites.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Alin Song, Jiayin Zhang, Duanyang Xu, Enzhao Wang, Jingjing Bi, Bismark Asante-Badu, Marie Claire Njyenawe, Miaomiao Sun, Piao Xue, Sai Wang, Fenliang Fan
Summary: The decomposition of lignin and cellulose in arable soil has a significant impact on soil fertility and carbon sequestration. Long-term fertilization increases the decomposition rates and alters the key microbial populations involved. The decomposition rates of cellulose and lignin are influenced by different factors under different fertilization conditions.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Soil Science
Feng Zhou, Xiaochen Zhang, Sicong Ma, Yi Li, Mengtao Zhu, Wei Zhang, Jie Li, Xiao Liu, Guoqing Hu, Xinxin Wang, Hongbo He, Xudong Zhang
Summary: The retention of microbial necromass plays a critical role in the long-term stabilization of fertilizer nitrogen (N) in soil. Fungal necromass has a longer residence time compared to bacterial necromass, suggesting its contribution to long-term fertilizer N stabilization. Maize stover mulching enhances the stability of microbial necromass N by increasing the retention and prolonging the residence time of fungal necromass over bacterial necromass, thus improving long-term fertilizer N retention.
Article
Microbiology
Ning Duan, Mark Radosevich, Jie Zhuang, Jennifer. M. M. DeBruyn, Margaret Staton, Sean. M. M. Schaeffer
Summary: Soil viral infection can impact soil microbial structure and functions, which are vital to global biogeochemical cycling. In long-term conservation agricultural management, viral diversity, community structure, and the correlation with bacteria are influenced by nitrogen fertilization.
Article
Soil Science
Jiangnan Li, Jie Zhao, Xionghui Liao, Qing Yi, Wei Zhang, Haifei Lin, Kunping Liu, Peiqin Peng, Kelin Wang
Summary: The negative environmental impacts of chemical fertilizers are well-known, and returning agricultural residues to the soil is considered a sustainable practice. However, there is limited research on the ecological and economic benefits of this practice. In a 16-year field experiment, the application of agricultural residues increased soil microbial biomass and diversity, soil network complexity, and ecosystem multifunctionality. Economic benefits were highest when cattle manure was returned to the soil, lowest with crop straw, and intermediate with chemical fertilization alone.
Article
Soil Science
Ruibo Sun, Fenghua Wang, Chunsheng Hu, Binbin Liu
Summary: Excessive nitrogen fertilization in agricultural ecosystems affects microbial nitrogen-cycling processes in soil, with long-term nitrogen input increasing the abundance of microorganisms involved in most nitrogen-transforming processes but decreasing that of nitrogen-fixing assemblages. The composition of microbial groups involved in each nitrogen-transforming process is altered by fertilization, despite the abundance of functional genes remaining unchanged. Different microbial taxa respond differently to nitrogen fertilization within the same functional group, which may be important for sustaining microbial nitrogen cycling in complex and dynamic environments.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xiangwen Xie, Qianqian Zhu, Yongmei Xu, Xiaopeng Ma, Feng Ding, Guangyong Li
Summary: This research on sugar beets in Xinjiang found that the W1F3 treatment had the highest yield and sugar content, with potassium (K) playing a crucial role in determining the yield and sugar content.
Article
Soil Science
Yan Zhou, Jianwei Zhang, Lei Xu, Muhammad Yousaf Nadeem, Weiwei Li, Yu Jiang, Yanfeng Ding, Zhenghui Liu, Ganghua Li
Summary: This study found that long-term fertilizer postponing increased soil organic matter content by increasing root residue input, accelerating lignin degradation, and improving microbial biomass. The increase in lignin degradation and microbial necromass contributed to soil carbon sequestration, suggesting that fertilizer postponing is a sustainable agricultural management strategy for improving soil organic matter.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Letusa Momesso, Carlos A. C. Crusciol, Marcio F. A. Leite, Joao W. Bossolani, Eiko E. Kuramae
Summary: The study found that forage grass cultivation significantly influenced soil microbial community abundance, composition, and structure, especially palisade grass. Nitrogen fertilization affected the abundance of nitrogen cycle genes in soil, but cultivation of palisade grass had specific impacts on nitrification and denitrification-related genes.
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yu Zhang, Dengmiao Cheng, Yuting Zhang, Jun Xie, Huaye Xiong, Yu Wan, Yueqiang Zhang, Xinping Chen, Xiaojun Shi
Summary: Animal manure fertilization can enhance the proliferation and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil, particularly beta-lactam genes. Manure application significantly increases the abundances of potential hosts of ARGs in soil, and the transmission of ARGs is influenced by soil properties, bacterial abundance, bacterial diversity, and other factors. The study highlights the importance of understanding the mechanisms shaping ARG profiles in different soil types for managing the dissemination of ARGs effectively.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)