Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 159-168.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20231248

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Effects of overturning Lolium perenne under different nitrogen rates on carbon, nitrogen and bacterial community structure in saline soil of coastal area

ZHU Xiaomei1(), XING Jincheng1,*(), HONG Lizhou1, WANG Jianhong2, LIU Chong1, DONG Jing1, SUN Guoli1, HE Sunan1   

  1. 1. Institute of Agriculture Sciences in the Coastal Area of Jiangsu, Yancheng 224002, Jiangsu, China
    2. Institute of Soil, Fertilizer and Environmental Resources, Zhejiang Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China
  • Received:2023-11-03 Online:2025-01-25 Published:2025-02-14

Abstract:

In order to explore the effect of overturning Lolium perenne as green manure on soil carbon, nitrogen and bacterial community structure under nitrogen application rates of 0, 90, 150, 210, 270 kg·hm-2 (based on pure N, denoted as CK, LN1, LN2, LN3, LN4, respectively), a field plot experiment was conducted in saline soil of coastal area. It was shown that the biomass of L. perenne increased with the elevated nitrogen application rates, and the highest biomass was found under the LN4 treatment, which was 64 227 kg·hm-2. The carbon and nitrogen content of L. perenne was relatively higher under the LN2 treatment, and there was no significant difference in the C/N ratio among treatments. Compared with the control treatment without N application, the soil pH was significantly (P<0.05) decreased with nitrogen application, yet the contents of water-soluble salt, organic carbon, total nitrogen, microbial biomass carbon and microbial biomass nitrogen increased significantly. Among all the treatments, LN2 treatment exhibited the highest soil microbial quotient, which was significantly higher than the other treatments. In the soil, the relative abundance of Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes was high. There was no significant difference in the Shannon index and Simpson index of soil bacteria among all the treatments, while the Chao1 index and Ace index of LN2 treatment was relatively higher. In general, LN2 treatment got the best comprehensive effect on reducing soil pH, increasing soil carbon and nitrogen content, and improving soil micro-ecological environment.

Key words: Lolium perenne, saline soil, soil bacterial community structure

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