Effect of Sugarcane Straw and Goat Manure on Soil Nutrient Transformation and Bacterial Communities
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Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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College of Crop Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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Key Laboratory of Crop Ecology and Molecular Physiology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 35002, China
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Sustainability 2018, 10(7), 2361; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072361
Received: 8 June 2018 / Revised: 4 July 2018 / Accepted: 5 July 2018 / Published: 6 July 2018
(This article belongs to the Collection Organic Waste Management)
Crop residue and animal manure as a soil amendment have been recognized as a feasible agricultural practice owing to its contribution in improving the soil fertility (SF). The primary advantages of this practice are determined by the activities of soil microorganisms. However, goat manure (M), sugarcane straw (S), and goat manure plus straw (MS) amendments influence soil bacteria, their activities, and SF in clay-loam soil remains undefinable. Therefore, this study distinguished the efficacy of M, MS, and S amendment on soil enzyme activities and the availability of nutrients, including various bacterial populations in clay-loamy soil with respect to two different phases (50 and 100 days). In order to analyze the bacterial structure and their activities, we employed high-throughput sequencing (HTS) and soil enzyme activity (SEA) tests. Soil amended with M and MS not only significantly enhanced nutrient availability, including C, P, and N, soil pH, as well as SEA for C and N cycles in both phases. Additionally, the increase in nutrient availability was greater in M- and MS-amended soils in the second phase (100 days) compared to the M- and S-amended soils in the first phase (50 days). Moreover, plant growth promoting and lignocellulose degrading bacterial genera were enhanced under M- and MS-amended soil compared to S-amended soil in both phases. Distance-based redundancy analysis (dbRDA) showed that soil pH, carbon-nitrogen ratio (C:N), and nitrates (NO3−) were inducing the fewest changes, while total nitrogen (TN), total carbon (TC), available nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP), total phosphorus (TP), available potassium (AK), and ammonium (NH4+) were the main operators in terms of change in bacterial populations. In general, we observed that M and MS are better amendment sources as compared to S amendment in order to enhance the SF in the clay-loamy soil in both phases, but greater fertility was exhibited in the second phase.
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livestock manure; straw; lignocellulose; soil enzymes; fertility; bacterial dynamics
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Tayyab, M.; Islam, W.; Arafat, Y.; Pang, Z.; Zhang, C.; Lin, Y.; Waqas, M.; Lin, S.; Lin, W.; Zhang, H. Effect of Sugarcane Straw and Goat Manure on Soil Nutrient Transformation and Bacterial Communities. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2361. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072361
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Tayyab M, Islam W, Arafat Y, Pang Z, Zhang C, Lin Y, Waqas M, Lin S, Lin W, Zhang H. Effect of Sugarcane Straw and Goat Manure on Soil Nutrient Transformation and Bacterial Communities. Sustainability. 2018; 10(7):2361. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072361
Chicago/Turabian StyleTayyab, Muhammad, Waqar Islam, Yasir Arafat, Ziqin Pang, Caifang Zhang, Yu Lin, Muhammad Waqas, Sheng Lin, Wenxiong Lin, and Hua Zhang. 2018. "Effect of Sugarcane Straw and Goat Manure on Soil Nutrient Transformation and Bacterial Communities" Sustainability 10, no. 7: 2361. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072361
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