Abstract
Background and aims
Continuous cropping causes enormous crop produce reduction, and soil fumigation is an effective approach to alleviate the limitation. Understanding the impacts of agriculture management on microbial community and its association with nutrient availability would provide strong supports for alleviating continuous cropping limitation. However, the mechanisms of fumigants in enhancing plant growth and alleviating continuous cropping barriers was not clear.
Methods
In this study, fumigation treatments including chloropicrin (CP), dazomet (DZ), and untreated control (CK) were carried out at field scale, and rhizosphere bacterial community and plant phytochrome were analyzed.
Results
The results showed that fumigation had strong effects on rhizosphere bacterial community and soil properties. Fumigation treatment caused significantly reduction in rhizosphere bacterial diversity. The nitrifiers (Nitrospira and Nitrospirillum) and functional gene (ammonia oxidizing bacterial AOB amoA) were significantly inhibited by fumigation treatment, which caused significant reduction in nitrification potential (PNF). The inhibition of nitrifiers, AOB amoA gene and PNF led to significant reduction of soil NO3−-N, but increase of NH4+-N. Subsequently, plant photosynthesis was enhanced as a result of increasing leaf chlorophyll a content caused by fumigation treatment. Therefore, fumigation treatment would promote crop growth through increasing the photosynthetic pigment.
Conclusion
The study indicated the key mechanisms fumigation promoting plant growth and alleviating cropping limitation were closely related to soil nitrifiers and nitrogen nutrients.
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Sequencing data are available in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive database, following the Biosample accession ID of SAMN17278885 to SAMN17278902.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to than the Key Project of Science and Technology of Hunan Branch of China National Tobacco Corporation (20-22A02, XX2022-2024Aa01, HN2021KJ05 and 202104). We would like to thank the Huayuan Agricultural Science Park for offering the field to carry out the experiment. We would also like to thank Prof. Xiaohua Deng from Hunan Agriculture University for offering the fumigants.
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The work was funded by the Key Project of Science and Technology of Hunan Branch of China National Tobacco Corporation (20-22A02, XX2022-2024Aa01, HN2021KJ05 and 202104).
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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by [Delong Meng], [Jing Xiong], [Huaqun Yin], [Yongjun Liu], [Tianbo Liu] and [Shuguang Peng]. The first draft of the manuscript was written by [Jing Xiong] and [Delong Meng], and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Xiong, J., Liu, Y., Liu, T. et al. Soil nitrification process played a key role in alleviating continuous cropping limitation induced by fumigation. Plant Soil 487, 157–171 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-05911-0
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