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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2023, Vol. 22 Issue (5): 1546-1559    DOI: 10.1016/j.jia.2022.12.011
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Inversion tillage with straw incorporation affects the patterns of soil microbial co-occurrence and multi-nutrient cycling in a Hapli-Udic Cambisol
CHEN Xu1, HAN Xiao-zeng1, WANG Xiao-hui2, GUO Zhen-xi3, YAN Jun1, LU Xin-chun1, ZOU Wen-xiu1#
1 Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150081, P.R.China  2 Agricultural Technology Extension Center of Wafangdian City, Wafangdian 116300, P.R.China  3 Modern Agricultural Development Service Center of Tieling County, Tieling 112600, P.R.China
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摘要  深翻秸秆还田在我国东北地区已得到了广泛的应用,可以显著增加土壤有机碳储量,改善底层土壤养分循环功能。土壤微生物普遍被认为是这一过程的关键,但其在深层土壤改良中的作用仍研究有限。本研究于2018年开始,以东北地区棕壤为研究对象,以常规耕作(CT,翻耕深度15 cm)为对照,分析了秸秆浅混还田(SCT,翻耕深度15 cm)、深翻处理(IT,翻耕深度35 cm)和深翻秸秆还田(SIT,翻耕深度35 cm)对土壤微生物群落网络和多养分循环功能的影响。结果表明,深翻秸秆还田改善了土壤多养分循环指数,提高了表层和底层土壤有机碳、全氮、有效氮、有效磷和有效钾等养分含量。与传统耕作和秸秆浅混还田相比,深翻秸秆还田通过减少微生物网络平均连通度和节点数,增加平均路径长度和模块化程度,创造了一个结构相对松散但具有高集中度集群的网络结构。同时随机森林分析发现,平均路径长度和聚类系数是影响土壤多养分循环功能的主要因素。综上深翻秸秆还田将是改善棕壤养分循环和微生物群落结构的一个有效措施,以上结果也为该地区关于微生物驱动秸秆分解策略提供了重要信息。




Abstract  Inversion tillage with straw amendment is widely applied in northeastern China, and it can substantially increase the storage of carbon and improve multiple subsoil functions. Soil microorganisms are believed to be the key to this process, but research into their role in subsoil amelioration is limited. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted in 2018 in a region in northeastern China with Hapli-Udic Cambisol using four treatments: conventional tillage (CT, tillage to a depth of 15 cm with no straw incorporation), straw incorporation with conventional tillage (SCT, tillage to a depth of 15 cm), inversion tillage (IT, tillage to a depth of 35 cm) and straw incorporation with inversion tillage (SIT, tillage to a depth of 35 cm). The soils were managed by inversion to a depth of 15 or 35 cm every year after harvest. The results indicated that SIT improved soil multi-nutrient cycling variables and increased the availability of key nutrients such as soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, available nitrogen, available phosphorus and available potassium in both the topsoil and subsoil. In contrast to CT and SCT, SIT created a looser microbial network structure but with highly centralized clusters by reducing the topological properties of average connectivity and node number, and by increasing the average path length and the modularity. A Random Forest analysis found that the average path length and the clustering coefficient were the main determinants of soil multi-nutrient cycling. These findings suggested that SIT can be an effective option for improving soil multi-nutrient cycling and the structure of microbial networks, and they provide crucial information about the microbial strategies that drive the decomposition of straw in Hapli-Udic Cambisol.
Keywords:  soil microbiome       microbial co-occurrence networks        straw amendment        soil nutrient  
Received: 13 July 2022   Accepted: 10 November 2022
Fund: The study was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFD1500100), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA28070100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41807085) and the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System (CARS04).
About author:  CHEN Xu, E-mail: chenxu@iga.ac.cn; #Correspondence ZOU Wen-xiu, Tel: +86-451-86601048, E-mail: zouwenxiu@iga.ac.cn

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CHEN Xu, HAN Xiao-zeng, WANG Xiao-hui, GUO Zhen-xi, YAN Jun, LU Xin-chun, ZOU Wen-xiu. 2023. Inversion tillage with straw incorporation affects the patterns of soil microbial co-occurrence and multi-nutrient cycling in a Hapli-Udic Cambisol. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 22(5): 1546-1559.

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