Soil Amendments Alter Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria Communities in Rain-Fed Maize Field in Semi-Arid Loess Plateau

Setor Kwami Fudjoe, Lingling Li, Yuji Jiang, Benjamin Karikari, Junhong Xie, Linlin Wang, Sumera Anwar and Jinbin Wang
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Setor Kwami Fudjoe: Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Lingling Li: Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Yuji Jiang: State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Benjamin Karikari: Department of Crop Science, University for Development Studies, P.O. Box TL 1882, Tamale 00233, Ghana
Junhong Xie: Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Linlin Wang: Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Sumera Anwar: Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore 54660, Pakistan
Jinbin Wang: Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-19

Abstract: Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) are key drivers of nitrification in rainfed soil ecosystems. However, within a semi-arid region, the influence of different soil amendments on the composition of soil AOA and AOB communities and soil properties of rainfed maize is still unclear. Therefore, in this study, the abundance, diversity, and composition of AOA and AOB communities and the potential nitrification activity (PNA) was investigated across five soil treatments: no fertilization (NA), urea fertilizer (CF), cow manure (SM), corn stalk (MS), and cow manure + urea fertilizer (SC). The AOB amoA gene copy number was influenced significantly by fertilization treatments. The AOB community was dominated by Nitrosospira cluster 3b under the CF and SC treatments, and the AOA community was dominated by Nitrososphaera Group I.1b under the CF and NA amendments; however, manure treatments (SM, MS, and SC) did not exhibit such influence. Network analysis revealed the positive impact of some hub taxonomy on the abundance of ammonia oxidizers. Soil pH, NO3 − -N, Module 3, biomass, and AOB abundance were the major variables that influenced the potential nitrification activity (PNA) within structural equation modeling. PNA increased by 142.98–226.5% under the treatments CF, SC, SM, and MS compared to NA. In contrast to AOA, AOB contributed dominantly to PNA. Our study highlights the crucial role of bacterial communities in promoting sustainable agricultural production in calcareous soils in semi-arid loess plateau environments.

Keywords: ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA); ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB); calcareous soil; fertilization treatments; potential nitrification activity (PNA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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