Long-term Tillage Alters Soil Properties and Rhizosphere Bacterial Community in Lime Concretion Black Soil under Winter Wheat–Summer Maize Double-Cropping System
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Experimental Site and Design
2.2. Soil Sampling and Chemical Analysis
2.3. Yield
2.4. DNA Isolation from Soil and High-Throughput Sequencing
2.5. Statistical Analysis of Sequencing Data
2.6. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Maize Yield and Soil Properties
3.2. The Bacterial Composition of Rhizosphere Soil under Various Tillage Practices
3.3. Response of Alpha and Beta Diversity to Long-Term Tillage Practices
3.4. Identification of Keystone Taxa under Different Tillage Practices
3.5. Soil Bacteria’s Metabolic Responses to Long-Term Tillage
3.6. Relationships between Soil Bacterial Communities and Soil Chemical Properties
4. Discussion
4.1. Effects of Tillage Practices on Yield and Soil Properties
4.2. Response of Microbial Community Composition to Tillage Practices
4.3. Effects of Tillage on Microbial Alpha and Beta Diversity
4.4. Potential Bacterial Functions in Response to Tillage Practices
4.5. Differential Bacteria and Their Relationship with Soil Properties
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Treatment | pH | SOM (g/kg) | TN (g/kg) | AP (mg/kg) | AK (mg/kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RT | 7.37 b | 18.88 c | 1.53 b | 23.83 b | 144.92 a |
NT | 7.83 a | 23.26 b | 2.10 a | 21.99 b | 144.85 a |
ST | 6.39 d | 28.67 a | 1.97 a | 41.54 a | 144.86 a |
PT | 6.71 c | 18.96 c | 1.55 b | 44.31 a | 121.57 b |
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Sun, Q.; Zhang, P.; Liu, X.; Zhang, H.; Liu, S.; Sun, X.; Jiang, W. Long-term Tillage Alters Soil Properties and Rhizosphere Bacterial Community in Lime Concretion Black Soil under Winter Wheat–Summer Maize Double-Cropping System. Agronomy 2023, 13, 790. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13030790
Sun Q, Zhang P, Liu X, Zhang H, Liu S, Sun X, Jiang W. Long-term Tillage Alters Soil Properties and Rhizosphere Bacterial Community in Lime Concretion Black Soil under Winter Wheat–Summer Maize Double-Cropping System. Agronomy. 2023; 13(3):790. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13030790
Chicago/Turabian StyleSun, Qing, Peiyu Zhang, Xiang Liu, Hongsheng Zhang, Shutang Liu, Xuefang Sun, and Wen Jiang. 2023. "Long-term Tillage Alters Soil Properties and Rhizosphere Bacterial Community in Lime Concretion Black Soil under Winter Wheat–Summer Maize Double-Cropping System" Agronomy 13, no. 3: 790. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13030790