Responses of Methane Emission and Bacterial Community to Fertilizer Reduction Plus Organic Materials over the Course of an 85-Day Leaching Experiment
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design of Soil Column Leaching Experiment
2.2. Collections and Detections of the CH4 Fluxes
2.3. Topsoil DNA Extraction and High throughput Sequencing
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of Soil and Organic Materials Used in This Study
3.2. Changes of CH4 Emissions over the Course of an 85-Day Leaching Experiment
3.3. Variations of the Soil Bacterial Community Structure
3.4. Correlation of the Bacterial Communities to Environmental Factors
4. Discussion
4.1. Fertilizer Reduction Plus Organic Materials Accelerate the CH4 Emissions from the Flooded Paddy Soil
4.2. Potential Mechanism of CH4 Emission under Fertilizer Reduction Plus Organic Materials
4.3. Implication
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Depth (cm) | pH | SOM (g kg−1) | AK (mg kg−1) | AP (mg kg−1) | CEC (cmol kg−1) | TN (g kg−1) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 | 7.38 ± 0.21 b | 32.22 ± 0.44 a | 130.40 ± 1.21 a | 20.12 ± 0.61 a | 18.60 ± 0.22 a | 1.21 ± 0.10 a |
20 | 7.59 ± 0.11 ab | 24.58 ± 0.51 b | 59.10 ± 4.21 b | 13.80 ± 1.81 b | 20.18 ± 2.81 a | 1.24 ± 0.17 a |
30 | 7.63 ± 0.02 a | 10.97 ± 1.09 c | 39.61 ± 1.10 c | 7.55 ± 0.37 c | 19.87 ± 3.61 a | 0.39 ± 0.05 b |
40 | 7.72 ± 0.03 a | 6.53 ± 0.41 d | 38.23 ± 1.11 c | 5.66 ± 0.32 c | 18.31 ± 1.31 a | 0.26 ± 0.03 b |
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Gao, J.; Ma, Z.; Liu, L.; Shi, Z.; Lv, J. Responses of Methane Emission and Bacterial Community to Fertilizer Reduction Plus Organic Materials over the Course of an 85-Day Leaching Experiment. Agronomy 2024, 14, 1972. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14091972
Gao J, Ma Z, Liu L, Shi Z, Lv J. Responses of Methane Emission and Bacterial Community to Fertilizer Reduction Plus Organic Materials over the Course of an 85-Day Leaching Experiment. Agronomy. 2024; 14(9):1972. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14091972
Chicago/Turabian StyleGao, Jiakai, Zhenyi Ma, Ling Liu, Zhaoyong Shi, and Jialong Lv. 2024. "Responses of Methane Emission and Bacterial Community to Fertilizer Reduction Plus Organic Materials over the Course of an 85-Day Leaching Experiment" Agronomy 14, no. 9: 1972. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14091972