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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 90-97.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.2020-00015

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Elevated CO2 Concentrations: Effects on Soil Microbial Quantity and Enzyme Activity in Root Zone of Lycium barbarum

Xie Yun(), Guo Fangyun, Cao Bing()   

  1. College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021
  • Received:2020-04-07 Revised:2020-06-08 Online:2021-01-25 Published:2021-01-26
  • Contact: Cao Bing E-mail:877522958@qq.com;bingcao2006@126.com

Abstract:

To investigate the effect of atmospheric CO2 concentration on the soil microenvironment of wolfberry root area in Ningxia, Lycium barbarum L. was used as the test material, and the open-top air chamber was used to simulate the control of CO2 concentration to measure the changes in the number of soil microorganisms and soil enzyme activity in the root zone under the double treatment of atmospheric CO2 concentration. Elevated CO2 concentration reduced the number of fungi and increased the number of bacteria and actinomycetes. Under 0.5-fold increase CO2 concentration treatment, the activities of catalase and invertase in wolfberry root area were increased by 24.74% and 23.71%, the urease activity and polyphenol oxidase activity were decreased by 0.45% and 15.29% compared with those of the control. Under double CO2 concentration treatment, the activities of the three enzymes were increased by 55.74%, 23.07%, and 44.60%, while the polyphenol oxidase decreased by 24.94%. Path analysis showed that the number of fungi had the greatest influence on urease activity, while the number of bacteria had the strongest influence on catalase activity. Atmospheric CO2 concentration enhanced the correlation between the number of soil microorganisms and enzyme activity in the root zone, in which the number of fungi and bacteria was significantly and negatively correlated with urease, and the number of actinomycetes was significantly and negatively correlated with urease under 0.5-fold treatment. The elevated CO2 concentration could increase the number of soil bacteria and actinomycetes in the root zone of wolfberry and the activities of soil catalase, urease and invertase.

Key words: CO2 concentration, Lycium barbarum, soil microorganisms, soil enzyme

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