Abstract
Aims
Zn is always co-fertilized with N and P fertilizers to increase crop yield production in agriculture. Although strong interactions between Zn and P have been recognized, how Zn affects soil P transformation mediated by microorganisms is not completely clear.
Methods
We planted rice plants in soils with different combinations of P and Zn supply, and analyzed the P transformation, bacterial and fungal communities, enzyme activities and gene expressions in rhizosphere soil.
Results
Zn application promoted rice growth and P uptake, increased available P, but decreased the proportion of organic P in rhizosphere soil after Zn supply under moderate P condition. Although Zn application did not affect either bacterial or fungal diversity, it clearly elevated PSB abundances including Saccharimonadales, Sphingomonas, Flavisolibacter, Gemmatirosa, subgroup_6, and subgroup_7, but significantly decreased the abundances of pathogenic fungi Curvularia and Fusarium under moderate P condition. Furthermore, the acid phosphatase activity increased 12.70%, the phoC, phoD, ppk, and pqqc expression levels increased to 1.88-fold, 4.99-fold, 2.86-fold, and 5.07-fold, respectively, after Zn supply under moderate P condition.
Conclusion
Zn application could facilitate the turnover of organic P into inorganic form and improve P availability by increasing PSB abundances, acid phosphatase activity, and functional gene expression levels. This positive effect of Zn on soil P transformation strongly depended on the environmental P conditions, as no obvious changes were displayed under high P condition. Therefore, Zn co-fertilized with appropriate P is an effective strategy to enhance P availability in rice rhizosphere soil to improve plant growth and P uptake.
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Abbreviations
- Zn:
-
Zinc
- P:
-
Phosphorus
- N:
-
Nitrogen
- Pi:
-
Inorganic phosphorus
- Po:
-
Organic phosphorus
- W-P:
-
Water soluble P
- Al-P:
-
Aluminum bound P
- Fe-P:
-
Iron bound P
- Ca-P:
-
Calcium bound P
- O-P:
-
Occluded P
- SOP:
-
Soil organic P
- A-N:
-
Alkali-hydrolyzed nitrogen
- A-K:
-
Available potassium
- OM:
-
Organic matter
- IE-Zn:
-
Acid extraction zinc
- R-Zn:
-
Reducible zinc
- O-Zn:
-
Oxidizable zinc
- SR-Zn:
-
Solid residue zinc
- PSB:
-
Phosphorus solubilizing bacteria
- PSM:
-
Phosphorus solubilizing microorganism
- PcoA:
-
Principal coordinate analysis
- RDA:
-
Redundancy analysis
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This work was supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFD1901203) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (2662019FW011).
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Lv, H., Ding, J., Zhang, L. et al. Zinc application facilitates the turnover of organic phosphorus in rice rhizosphere soil by modifying microbial communities. Plant Soil 498, 77–92 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05810-w
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