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The effect of mineral and organic fertilization on the occurrence of soil microorganisms was determined in a field experiment. The colony-forming unit counts of saprotrophic microfungi, when estimated on a silicate gel medium containing fulvic acid as a sole carbon source, increased significantly with increasing doses of mineral and organic fertilization. Partial correlation analysis indicated that, unlike bacteria and actinomycetes, microfungi utilizing fulvic acid were significantly associated with soil organic carbon. No significant effects on bacteria and microfungi counted on common microbiological media were observed but counts of actinomycetes increased in a manured soil extensively fertilized by a mineral fertilizer. Fulvic acid utilizing microfungi, which are associated with areas rich in organics, play possibly the main role in mineralization of resistant forms of soil organic matter.
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The research was supported by theGrant Agency of the Czech Republic, project no. 526/00/1276, and byInstitutional Research Concept no. AV 0Z 502 0903.
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Gryndler, M., Hršelová, H., Klír, J. et al. Long-term fertilization affects the abundance of saprotrophic microfungi degrading resistant forms of soil organic matter. Folia Microbiol 48, 76–82 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02931280
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