The Immediate Hotspot of Microbial Nitrogen Cycling in an Oil-Seed Rape (Brassica campestris L.) Soil System Is the Bulk Soil Rather Than the Rhizosphere after Biofertilization

Autor: Shanghua Wu, Tsing Bohu, Yuzhu Dong, Shijie Wang, Shijie Zhao, Haonan Fan, Xuliang Zhuang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Microorganisms, Vol 10, Iss 2, p 247 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-2607
44111967
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10020247
Popis: Biofertilizers are substances that promote plant growth through the efficacy of living microorganisms. The functional microbes comprising biofertilizers are effective mediators in plant-soil systems in the regulation of nitrogen cycling, especially in nitrification repression. However, the deterministic or stochastic distribution of the functional hotspot where microbes are active immediately after biofertilization is rarely investigated. Here, pot experiments with oil-seed rape (Brassica campestris L.) were conducted with various chemical and biological fertilizers in order to reveal the distribution of the hotspot after each fertilization. A stimulated dynamic of the nitrogen cycling-related genes in the bulk soil inferred that the bulk soil was likely to be the hotspot where the inoculated bacterial fertilizers dominated the nitrogen cycle. Furthermore, a network analysis showed that bulk soil microbial communities were more cooperative than those in the rhizosphere after biofertilization, suggesting that the microbiome of the bulk soils were more efficient for nutrient cycling. In addition, the relatively abundant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea present in the networks of bulk soil microbial communities further indicated that the bulk soil was the plausible hotspot after the application of the biofertilizers. Therefore, our research provides a new insight into the explicit practice of plant fertilization and agricultural management, which may improve the implementational efficiency of biofertilization.
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