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Assessment of Labile Organic Carbon in Soil Using Sequential Fumigation Incubation Procedures
Published on: October 29, 2016
Effects of fumigation with 1,3-dichloropropene on soil enzyme activities and microbial communities in
Dianli Zhang1, Xiaoxue Ji1, Zhen Meng1
1Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology and Application Technique, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, 61 Daizong Street, Tai'an, Shandong 271018, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The compound 1,3-D (1,3-dichloropropene) is a potential candidate soil fumigant due to the restrictions on methyl bromide (MB). To date, little is known about the soil microbial community changes induced by 1,3-D fumigation. Therefore, soil properties, related soil enzymes, genes encoding the key enzymes of ammonia oxidation in both ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacterial diversity were investigated to assess the effects of 1,3-D fumigation on the soil microbial community. The results exhibited that fumigation with 1,3-D caused accumulation of NH4+-N, but it led to decrease in the rate of NO3--N, and the concentration of NO3--N gradually recovered. At 12 weeks after transplant (WAT) of tomato seedlings, the concentration of NH4+-N and NO3--N were not statistically significant between the 1,3-D treatment groups and the untreated control group. A similar tendency was found for organic matter, soil pH, urease and protease activities. Moreover, quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) showed that 1,3-D decreased total bacterial abundance, AOA-amoA and AOB-amoA genes. In addition, Illumina MiSeq sequencing analysis revealed that soil bacterial community diversities were significantly reduced at earlier sampling time points, and at later sampling time points, soil bacterial diversity gradually recovered, there was no significant difference compared to the control group. The present study provides useful information to evaluate the environmental safety of 1,3-D.
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