Chemical Properties and Bacterial Community Reaction to Acidified Cattle Slurry Fertilization in Soil from Maize Cultivation

Autor: Marek Kierończyk, W. Wardal, Jerzy Barszczewski, K. Mazur, Tomasz Sakowski, Paweł Stanisław Wierzchowski, Jakub Dobrzyński
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Agronomy
Volume 11
Issue 3
Agronomy, Vol 11, Iss 601, p 601 (2021)
ISSN: 2073-4395
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11030601
Popis: Acidified slurry is a novel organic fertilizer that limits gaseous ammonia emissions and reduces nitrogen losses. Our research aimed to determine the effects of short-term fertilization with acidified slurry on the chemical properties and bacterial community of soil used for maize cultivation. In the months after spreading, raw slurry fertilization had a significant impact on the increase in values of N-NO3. In contrast, soil fertilized with acidified slurry had lower N-NO3 values when compared to raw slurry fertilization treatments. Bacterial sequencing using Illumina MiSeq showed no differences in the genetic diversity of bacterial communities. In all tested soil samples, dominants at the phylum level were Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Acidobacteria, while dominants at the class level were Actinobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, Thermoleophilia, Gammaproteobacteria, and Acidimicrobiia. The values of biodiversity indices (Shannon index, Simpson index) in tested samples were similar. Our results suggest that short-term fertilization with acidified slurry does not adversely affect the biodiversity and structure of the bacterial communities and has a slight impact on soil chemical properties.
Databáze: OpenAIRE