Fertilization shapes bacterial community structure by alteration of soil pH

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Zhang, Yuting
Shen, Hong
He, Xinhua
Thomas, Ben W.
Lupwayi, Newton Z.
Hao, Xiying
Thomas, Matthew C.
Shi, Xiaojun
dc.date.accepted
2017-06-30
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2024-01-12T22:04:40Z
dc.date.available
2024-01-12T22:04:40Z
dc.date.issued
2017-07-18
dc.date.submitted
2017-03-17
dc.description.abstract - en
Application of chemical fertilizer or manure can affect soil microorganisms directly by supplying nutrients and indirectly by altering soil pH. However, it remains uncertain which effect mostly shapes microbial community structure. We determined soil bacterial diversity and community structure by 454 pyrosequencing the V1-V3 regions of 16S rRNA genes after 7-years (2007–2014) of applying chemical nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) fertilizers, composted manure or their combination to acidic (pH 5.8), near-neutral (pH 6.8) or alkaline (pH 8.4) Eutric Regosol soil in a maize-vegetable rotation in southwest China. In alkaline soil, nutrient sources did not affect bacterial Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) richness or Shannon diversity index, despite higher available N, P, K, and soil organic carbon in fertilized than in unfertilized soil. In contrast, bacterial OTU richness and Shannon diversity index were significantly lower in acidic and near-neutral soils under NPK than under manure or their combination, which corresponded with changes in soil pH. Permutational multivariate analysis of variance showed that bacterial community structure was significantly affected across these three soils, but the PCoA ordination patterns indicated the effect was less distinct among nutrient sources in alkaline than in acidic and near-neural soils. Distance-based redundancy analysis showed that bacterial community structures were significantly altered by soil pH in acidic and near-neutral soils, but not by any soil chemical properties in alkaline soil. The relative abundance (%) of most bacterial phyla was higher in near-neutral than in acidic or alkaline soils. The most dominant phyla were Proteobacteria (24.6%), Actinobacteria (19.7%), Chloroflexi (15.3%) and Acidobacteria (12.6%); the medium dominant phyla were Bacterioidetes (5.3%), Planctomycetes (4.8%), Gemmatimonadetes (4.5%), Firmicutes (3.4%), Cyanobacteria (2.1%), Nitrospirae (1.8%), and candidate division TM7 (1.0%); the least abundant phyla were Verrucomicrobia (0.7%), Armatimonadetes (0.6%), candidate division WS3 (0.4%) and Fibrobacteres (0.3%). In addition, Cyanobacteria and candidate division TM7 were more abundant in acidic soil, whereas Gemmatimonadetes, Nitrospirae and candidate division WS3 were more abundant in alkaline soil. We conclude that after 7-years of fertilization, soil bacterial diversity and community structure were shaped more by changes in soil pH rather than the direct effect of nutrient addition.
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Zhang, Y., Shen, H., He, X., Thomas, B. W., Lupwayi, N. Z., Hao, X., Thomas, M. C., & Shi, X. (2017). Fertilization shapes bacterial community structure by alteration of soil ph. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01325
dc.identifier.doi
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01325
dc.identifier.issn
1664-302X
dc.identifier.uri
https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/1772
dc.language.iso
en
dc.publisher
Frontiers Media S.A.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Gold
dc.rights.openaccesslevel - fr
Or
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights.uri - fr
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr
dc.subject - en
Agriculture
dc.subject - fr
Agriculture
dc.subject.en - en
Agriculture
dc.subject.fr - fr
Agriculture
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Fertilization shapes bacterial community structure by alteration of soil pH
dc.type - en
Article
dc.type - fr
Article
local.acceptedmanuscript.articlenum
1325
local.article.journaltitle
Frontiers in Microbiology
local.article.journalvolume
8
local.peerreview - en
Yes
local.peerreview - fr
Oui
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