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Role of fungal communities and their interaction with bacterial communities on carbon and nitrogen component transformation in composting with different phosphate additives

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The aim of the study was to compare the succession of fungal community and their interaction with bacterial community during pig manure composting with different phosphate additives and further to identify microbial roles on the transformation of carbon and nitrogen (C&N) components and compost maturity. The results showed that the composition of fungal community was significantly affected by pH in composting and acidic phosphate might postpone the C&N degradation process. Network analysis showed that phosphate additives, especially acidic additives, could increase the interaction of microbial community but acidic phosphate decreased the core fungi:bacteria ratio. Redundancy analysis indicated that the interactions between bacterial and fungal communities played more roles than individual contribution of bacteria or fungi for C&N conversion of composting. Structural equation modeling suggested that bacterial community was positively directly correlated to C&N loss and the participation of fungal community significantly benefited the maturity of composting. pH exhibited a great intermediated role for driving C&N conversion, maturity, and safety of composts by regulating bacterial and fungal community in composting with phosphate addition, which suggested a fast-composting way based on pH regulation by additives.

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the editor and reviewers for telling us how to make the manuscript more completed and better. The data were analyzed on the free online platform of Majorbio I-Sanger Cloud Platform (www.i-sanger.com).

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This work was financially supported by the Science Fund of Jiangsu Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry (2020kj006), Blue Project of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Prov Modern Agriculture Key R&D plan (BE2021345), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31800378), State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology and the Open Research Fund from the Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology in Tibet Plateau (Tibet Agriculture & Animal Husbandry University), Ministry of Education, China [Grant XZA-JYBSYS-2020–02].

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  1. Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Jiangsu Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry, Jurong, 212400, China

    Gang Li

  2. College of Resources and Environmental Science, Beijing Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Organic Farming, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

    Wenjie Chen, Shaoqi Xu, Jinyue Zhao, Dinglin Liu, Guochun Ding, Ji Li & Yuquan Wei

  3. Institute of Strategic Planning, Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, Beijing, 100043, China

    Shangao Xiong

  4. Organic Recycling Institute (Suzhou) of China Agricultural University, Wuzhong District, Suzhou, 215128, China

    Guochun Ding, Ji Li & Yuquan Wei

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All authors participated in conceiving the study. Gang Li: methodology, data curation, conceptualization, writing—original draft, funding acquisition. Wenjie Chen: data curation, visualization, methodology. Shaoqi Xu: data curation, visualization, software. Shangao Xiong: methodology, visualization. Jinyue Zhao: data curation, formal analysis. Dinglin Liu: data curation, formal analysis. Guochun Ding: data curation, visualization. Ji Li: conceptualization, resources. Yuquan Wei: conceptualization, formal analysis, validation, resources, writing—review and editing, project administration, funding acquisition.

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Li, G., Chen, W., Xu, S. et al. Role of fungal communities and their interaction with bacterial communities on carbon and nitrogen component transformation in composting with different phosphate additives. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 44112–44120 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-25430-w

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