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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2023, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 671-678.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202303.014

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Effects of different fertilization treatments on soil microbial functional diversity of dry tableland wheat field in south Shanxi Province.

LIU Lianlian1,2, SHANG Yanmeng1,3, ZHANG Jie1,3*, LI Tingliang1,3, XIE Yinghe1,3, XIE Junyu1,3, LI Li’na1,3, HONG Jianping1,3   

  1. 1College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, Shanxi, China;
    2College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100091, China;
    3National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Agricultural Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, Shanxi, China
  • Received:2022-07-05 Accepted:2023-01-10 Published:2023-09-15

Abstract: Understanding the effects of different fertilization treatments on microbial functional diversity in loess tableland wheat soil in south Shanxi Province can provide the theoretical basis from the perspective of microbial functional diversity for chemical fertilizer reduction, wheat yield increase, and soil fertility improvement in dryland soil. We conducted a long-term field experiment with seven fertilization treatments in winter wheat cultivation area of loess tableland in south Shanxi Province, including straw charcoal fertilizer (SF), bacterial fertilizer (BF), organic fertilizer (OF), humic acid fertilizer (HF), monitoring fertilizer (MF), farmer fertilizer (FF) and no fertilizer (CK). We employed Biolog-ECO microplate technique to investigate the differences of carbon source utilization capacity and functional diversity of soil microorganisms. The results showed that all the fertilization treatments could improve the metabolic activity and functional diversity of soil microbial community. Carbon source utilization was the most efficient in SF, with the overall soil microbial utilization ability of the 31 carbon sources and the utilization ability of different guilds of carbon sources being improved. Functional diversity, richness, and dominance based on microbial carbon sources utilization were significantly higher in SF treatment than that under other five treatments, and the evenness was higher than BF. Results of principal component analysis (PCA) and biclustering heatmap analysis showed that different fertilization treatments had significant effects on the metabolic function of microbial community. SF treatment could promote the functional diversity of soil microbial community, especially for the utilization of carbohydrates, carboxylic acids and amino acids. In conclusion, straw charcoal fertilizer had positive effects on soil microbial activity in wheat soil of loess tableland in south Shanxi Province.

Key words: dry tableland in south Shanxi Province, fertilization practice, Biolog-ECO microplate, microbial functional diversity, straw charcoal