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Liqin Wang1, Xue Wang1, Yangyang Song1
1College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
Abstract:
The aim of this paper was to confirm the role of inhibitors addition, namely adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and malonic acid (MA), on nitrogen availability during rice straw (RS) composting. The results showed that inhibitors addition slowed down the mineralization of ammonium nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen compared to CK. Meanwhile, amino sugar nitrogen and hydrolysable unknown nitrogen contents in ATP and MA treatments were higher, indicating that their addition improved the retention of organic nitrogen components. Furthermore, inhibitors additions attenuated the responsive relationship between bacterial communities and nitrogen components. The main reason was that the addition changed the bacterial community structure of RS compost. The final structural equation verified that inhibitors addition enhanced conversion between nitrogen components, that was, to complex nitrogen components to improve the quality of compost, and the remodeling of bacterial community played an important role. Therefore, adding inhibitors had a driving effect on promoting nitrogen sequestration.
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