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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2): 43-48.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2024-0300

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Effects of Short-term Fertilization on Soil Bacterial Community Composition and Diversity in Wheat Fields

LIU Donghai1(), DAI Zhigang2, MEI Liangxian3, QIAO Yan1, ZHANG Zhi1, XIAO Zhuoxi1, LI Fei1, HU Cheng1()   

  1. 1 Institute of Plant Protection and Soil Fertilizer, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430064
    2 Hubei Provincial Cultivated Land Quality and Fertilizer Station, Wuhan 430070
    3 Huangmailing Chemical Research Institute Co., Ltd of Hubei, Wuhan 430061
  • Received:2024-04-28 Revised:2024-08-24 Online:2025-01-13 Published:2025-01-13

Abstract:

To clarify the mechanism of the effect of short-term fertilization on the composition and diversity of soil bacterial communities in wheat fields, a field experiment was conducted with four treatments: no fertilization (T1), conventional fertilization (T2), recommended fertilization (T3) and organic substitution of 50% (T4), by using high-throughput sequencing to study the effects on soil bacterial community composition and diversity. The results showed that compared with T1 treatment, fertilization treatments decreased soil pH value, but T4 treatment delayed the downward trend of pH; T2, T3 and T4 increased the yield by 147.45%, 144.68% and 98.41%, respectively. The T4 treatment increased the Shannon index and decreased the soil bacterial Chao index, but the differences were not significant. Fertilization increased the relative abundance of soil Proteobacteria, among which T2 was the highest, while fertilization decreased the relative abundance of Cyanobacteria, among which T4 was the highest. T2 enriched g_Roseateles, g_Rhodanobacter and g_Singulisphaera, T4 enriched g_Pseudoxanthomonas and o_Streptosporangiales. Cluster analyses showed that alkali-hydrolyzable nitrogen, available phosphorus, available potassium and organic carbon had similar effects on bacterial flora, but pH was different. Compared with T2, T4 slowed down the evolution of photoautotrophic flora to chemo-energy heterotrophic flora and decreased the abundance of nitrate respiration-related flora. Therefore, short-term organic substitution (50%) has the risk of reducing yield, but it was beneficial to maintain the stability of bacterial community in wheat field. N 150 kg/hm2 could be used as the recommended amount of fertilization.

Key words: fertilization, short-term fertilization, wheat fields, soil, bacterial diversity, bacterial community, functional prediction, high-throughput sequencing