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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (32): 84-90.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0919

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Effects of Different Nitrogen Application Levels on Phosphatase Activity in Farmland Black Soil under Condition of Deep Burial of Straw

LV Xuemei1(), XU Sisi1, WANG Yao2,3, CHEN Yimin2, SUI Yueyu2, JIAO Xiaoguang1()   

  1. 1 College of Modern Agriculture and Eco-environment, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080
    2 Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150081
    3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
  • Received:2022-11-02 Revised:2023-01-11 Online:2023-11-15 Published:2023-11-10

Abstract:

Straw return is an important agricultural measure to regulate soil fertility, which can affect soil enzyme activity. To investigate the effect of straw deep burial on soil phosphatase activity and soil phosphorus under different nitrogen fertilizer levels, this study used a split-zone experimental design with agricultural black soil as the research object. No straw and straw deep burial were set as the main factors, and four nitrogen fertilizer levels (pure N, 0, 135, 180, 225 kg/hm2) were used as secondary factors to determine phosphatase activity and soil total phosphorus and effective phosphorus contents. The results showed that (1) soil phosphatase activity increased and then decreased with the extension of maize growth period, reaching the highest level at the elongation stage and decreasing to the lowest level at the harvesting stage. Compared with the straw-free treatment, the straw deep burial treatment significantly increased the activity of soil phosphatase (P<0.05), and the phosphatase activity showed a trend of increasing and then decreasing with the increase of nitrogen application, and the highest phosphatase activity was 344.66 mg/(g·24 h) at 180 kg/hm2 of nitrogen application; (2) compared with the straw-free treatment, the straw deep burial treatment increased the content of total phosphorus and effective phosphorus, but the difference was not significant (P>0.05). The trend of effective phosphorus content in all treatments was the same, increasing first and then decreasing with the increase of N application. The highest content of effective phosphorus reached at 102.17 mg/kg under the straw deep burial treatment at 180 kg/hm2 of N application; (3) correlation analysis showed that soil phosphatase activity had a highly significant positive correlation with soil effective phosphorus content (P<0.01), and did not reach a significant level of difference with soil total phosphorus content (P>0.05). In conclusion, the phosphatase activity and effective phosphorus content of soil were highest when straw was buried deeply in N180 treatment.

Key words: deep burial of straw, nitrogen fertilizer level, black soil, soil phosphatase activity, correlation