Extracellular Enzyme Patterns Provide New Insights Regarding Nitrogen Transformation Induced by Alkaline Amendment of Acidic Soil
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Soil and Alkaline Mineral Amendment Properties
2.2. Soil Incubation Experiment
2.3. Physicochemical Analysis
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Soil pH
3.2. Soil Mineral Nitrogen
3.3. Dissolved Organic Carbon
3.4. Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activity
3.5. Soil Nitrogen Transformation Rate
4. Discussion
4.1. Nitrogen Transformation Regulation by Alkaline Amendment
4.2. N Transformation and EEA
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Yin, J.; Bai, X.; Fenton, O.; Tang, B.; Chen, S.; Ma, Y.; Zhang, S.; Cao, W.; Ding, S.; Liu, R.; et al. Extracellular Enzyme Patterns Provide New Insights Regarding Nitrogen Transformation Induced by Alkaline Amendment of Acidic Soil. Agronomy 2022, 12, 3015. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12123015
Yin J, Bai X, Fenton O, Tang B, Chen S, Ma Y, Zhang S, Cao W, Ding S, Liu R, et al. Extracellular Enzyme Patterns Provide New Insights Regarding Nitrogen Transformation Induced by Alkaline Amendment of Acidic Soil. Agronomy. 2022; 12(12):3015. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12123015
Chicago/Turabian StyleYin, Junhui, Xin Bai, Owen Fenton, Bingbing Tang, Shuo Chen, Yan Ma, Shuai Zhang, Wenchao Cao, Shuai Ding, Rui Liu, and et al. 2022. "Extracellular Enzyme Patterns Provide New Insights Regarding Nitrogen Transformation Induced by Alkaline Amendment of Acidic Soil" Agronomy 12, no. 12: 3015. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12123015