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Published on: June 23, 2022
Role of fungal communities and their interaction with bacterial communities on carbon and nitrogen component
Gang Li1, Wenjie Chen2, Shaoqi Xu2
1Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Jiangsu Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry, Jurong, 212400, China.
Abstract:
The aim of the study was to compare the succession of fungal community and their interaction with bacterial community during pig manure composting with different phosphate additives and further to identify microbial roles on the transformation of carbon and nitrogen (C&N) components and compost maturity. The results showed that the composition of fungal community was significantly affected by pH in composting and acidic phosphate might postpone the C&N degradation process. Network analysis showed that phosphate additives, especially acidic additives, could increase the interaction of microbial community but acidic phosphate decreased the core fungi:bacteria ratio. Redundancy analysis indicated that the interactions between bacterial and fungal communities played more roles than individual contribution of bacteria or fungi for C&N conversion of composting. Structural equation modeling suggested that bacterial community was positively directly correlated to C&N loss and the participation of fungal community significantly benefited the maturity of composting. pH exhibited a great intermediated role for driving C&N conversion, maturity, and safety of composts by regulating bacterial and fungal community in composting with phosphate addition, which suggested a fast-composting way based on pH regulation by additives.
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