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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2020, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 929-934.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202003.021

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Effects of organic fertilizer on soil environment and yield of tomato under year-round cultivation

LIU Zhong-liang, GAO Jun-jie*, GU Duan-yin, YAN Wei-qiang   

  1. Tai’an Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tai’an 271000, Shandong, China
  • Received:2019-05-20 Online:2020-03-15 Published:2020-03-15
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    This work was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Shandong Province (2018GNC110037), and Shandong Province Modern Agriculture Industry System Vegetable Innovation Team for Soil and Fertilizer Expert Project (SDAIT-05-09)

Abstract: The early-spring and autumn-winter tomato in greenhouse is the main planting patterns of protected vegetable in North China. Taking the customary fertilization amount of farmers under this planting pattern as control (CK, 100% chemical fertilizer), six organic fertilizer replacing chemical fertilizer treatments were set, namely, 15% (T1), 30% (T2), 45% (T3), 60% (T4), 75% (T5), 100% organic fertilizer (T6), to examine the replacing effects on soil environment and tomato yield. The results showed that soil bacteria increased with increasing organic fertilizer amount, the actinomycetes wers up to 12.12×106 cfu·g-1 under T1 treatment which was the highest one. Combined application of organic fertilizer could increase soil urease activity, decrease catalase activity, increase soil organic matter, and enhance the concentrations of available phosphorus and available potassium, indicating that organic fertilizer had significant effects on soil physical and chemical properties, soil enzyme activity and nutrient accumulation. The invertase activity and available phosphorus content under T1 treatment were the highest, being 1.36 mg·g-1 and 305.4 mg·kg-1, respectively, while the available potassium content of T2 treatment was the highest (582.6 g·kg-1). In addition, T2 had the largest percentage of >0.25 mm water-stable agglomerate (94.2%). Compared with CK, the application of organic fertilizer could improve tomato quality and increase yield. The lycopene content of T1 was the highest (5.69), the sugar-acid ratio of T1 and T2 was 8.19 and 8.70, respectively, with better tastes. The yield of T1 was the highest, followed by T2 treatment, which was 16.6% and 5.8% higher than that of CK, respectively. It suggested that reducing the application rate of chemical fertilizers by 15%-30% with organic fertilizer was a preferred fertilization measure in this planting pattern.