scholarly journals Implication of Urochloa spp. Intercropping and Conservation Agriculture on Soil Microbiological Quality and Yield of Tahiti Acid Lime in Long Term Orchard Experiment

Agriculture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Costa Arantes ◽  
Simone Raposo Cotta ◽  
Patrícia Marluci da Conceição ◽  
Silvana Perissatto Meneghin ◽  
Rodrigo Martinelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Activity ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Microbial Biomass Carbon ◽  
Soil Microbial Activity ◽  
Fruit Production ◽  
Minimum Tillage ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Acid Lime ◽  
Citrus Orchards

Techniques such as intercropping and minimum tillage improve soil quality, including soil microbial activity, which stimulates the efficient use of soil resources by plants. However, the effects of such practices in soil under citrus orchards have not been well characterized. In this study, we aimed to determine the effects of mowing and intercrop species on soil microbiological characteristics beneath a Tahiti acid lime orchard. The orchard was planted using minimum tillage and intercropped with two species of Urochloa species (U. ruziziensis—ruzi grass; U. decumbens—signal grass), with two types of mowers for Urochloa biomass (ecological; conventional) and herbicide applications. The study was conducted over 10 years. The ecological mower made the largest deposition of the intercrop biomass, thus providing the lowest disturbance of soil microbial activity and increasing, on average over all 10 years, the basal soil respiration (45%), microbial biomass carbon (25%), abundance of 16S rRNA (1.5%) and ITS (3.5%) genes, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (30%), and providing a ca. 20% higher fruit yield. U. ruziziensis in combination with ecological mowing stimulated the abundance of the genes nifH (1.5%) and phoD (3.0%). The herbicide showed little influence. We conclude that the use of U. ruziziensis as an intercrop in citrus orchards subjected to ecological mowing can be recommended for improving and sustaining soil quality and citrus fruit production.

Effects of the Accumulation of Different Plastic Film on the Quantities of Soil Microbial

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 356-360
Author(s):  
Rui Yu Jia ◽  
Xiao Guang Zhao ◽  
Yang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Activity ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Soil Microbial Activity ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
Plastic Film ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Microbial Quantities

This study has adopted potted experiment to study systematically the effect on soil microbial quantities of the accumulation of five different plastic film: for 0 year ,for 5years ,for 10 years ,for 15 years ,and for 20 years , and has analyzed the change trends of soil microbial activity. Whose relationship with soil quality has also been explored through analysis of the situation on crop growth, so as to provide scientific basis for law of the accumulation of plastic film on soil microbial activity.

scholarly journals Response of soil microbiota to nine-year application of swine manure and urea

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Morales ◽  
Mónica Machado Vargas ◽  
Michele Pottes de Oliveira ◽  
Bruna Lunarde Taffe ◽  
Jucinei Comin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Microbial Activity ◽  
Microbial Biomass Carbon ◽  
Soil Layer ◽  
Swine Manure ◽  
Soil Microbial Activity ◽  
Basal Respiration ◽  
Pig Slurry ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Tillage System

ABSTRACT: Manure fertilization is a common practice, but little is known about its impacts on soil microbial activity and organic matter. Aiming to evaluate soil microbial response to nine years of successive applications of swine manure, organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), pH, microbial biomass carbon (MBC), basal respiration (BR), metabolic quotient (qCO2), and enzyme (ß-glucosidase, phosphatase, arylsulphatase, and FDA) activities were measured in the 0-10cm soil layer, in a no-tillage system. Treatments were: control soil without fertilization (C), and application of two doses (104 and 209kg of N ha-1year-1) of urea (U1 and U2), pig slurry (PS1 and PS2) and deep litter (DL1 and DL2). TOC, TN, soil pH, MBC, and BR increased in soil fertilized with DL, and were lower in U treatments. Soils with U and DL application had higher qCO2, related to different sources of stressors like nutrient imbalance. Phosphatase and ß-glucosidase activities were not affected by treatments, increased with time, and had a strong correlation with MBC. We conclude that long-term swine manure applications increase microbial activity and soil organic matter, mainly in DL form; while urea applications have negative impacts on these indicators.

scholarly journals Effects of Mixing Feldspathic Sandstone and Sand on Soil Microbial Biomass and Extracellular Enzyme Activities—A Case Study in Mu Us Sandy Land in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 3963
Author(s):  
Xiuxiu Feng ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Fazhu Zhao ◽  
Hongying Bai ◽  
Russell Doughty
Keyword(s):  
Enzyme Activity ◽  
Microbial Biomass ◽  
Microbial Activity ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Enzyme Activities ◽  
Soil Microbial Biomass ◽  
Extracellular Enzyme ◽  
Soil Microbial Activity ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Feldspathic Sandstone

Microbial biomass, extracellular enzyme activity, and their stoichiometry in soil play an important role in ecosystem dynamics and functioning. To better understand the improvement of sand soil quality and the limitation of soil nutrients after adding feldspathic sandstone, we investigated changes in soil microbial activity after 10 months of mixing feldspathic sandstone and sand, and compared the dynamics with soil properties. We used fumigation extraction to determine soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC), nitrogen (MBN), phosphorus (MBP), and microplate fluorometric techniques to measure soil β-1,4-glucosidase (BG), β-1,4-xylosidase (BX), β-D-cellobiohydrolase (CBH), N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase (NAG), and Alkaline phosphatase (AKP). We also measured soil organic carbon (SOC), pH, electrical conductivity (EC), soil inorganic carbon (SIC), and soil water content (SWC). Our results showed that the soil microbial biomass C, N, P, and individual extracellular enzyme activities significantly increased in mixed soil. Similarly, the soil microbial biomass C:N, C:P, N:P, MBC:SOC, and BG:NAG significantly increased by 54.3%, 106.3%, 33.1%, 23.0%, and 65.4%, respectively. However, BG:AKP and NAG:AKP decreased by 19.0% and 50.3%, respectively. Additionally, redundancy analysis (RDA) and Pearson’s correlation analysis showed that SWC, SOC, porosity and field capacity were significantly associated with soil microbial biomass indices (i.e., C, N, P, C:N, C:P, N:P in microbial biomass, and MBC:SOC) and extracellular enzyme activity metrics (i.e., individual enzyme activity, ecoenzymatic stoichiometry, and vector characteristics of enzyme activity), while pH, EC, and SIC had no correlation with these indices and metrics. These results indicated that mixing feldspathic sandstone and sand is highly susceptible to changes in soil microbial activity, and the soil N limitation decreased while P became more limited. In summary, our research showed that adding feldspathic sandstone into sand can significantly improve soil quality and provide a theoretical basis for the development of desertified land resources.

scholarly journals Impacts of Heavy Metals on Soil Microbial Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Justiniano Régo ◽  
Valdemar Luiz Tornisielo
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Microbial Activity ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Microbial Respiration ◽  
Soil Microbial Activity ◽  
Dam Failure ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Environmental Balance

Concern about soil quality has been increasing due to environmental impacts from anthropogenic actions. The imbalance between its components alters activities in ecosystems. One of the main actions affecting soil quality is the presence of heavy metals, impairing the functioning of the ecosystem. This work evaluated the impacts of metal-contaminated soil on microbial activity after dam failure in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Microbial respiration measurements and colony quantifications were used for evaluations. Thus, it is hoped that through these bioindicators, we can assess the quality of the environment and from these biostimulators restore the environmental balance, benefiting local communities affected by the disaster. After microbial biostimulation of the soil, there was an increase in the number of bacterial colonies as well as greater accumulation of CO2 over the days. Thus, the addition of nutrients to the metal-impacted soil was essential for initiating the restoration of the affected ecosystem equilibrium.

scholarly journals Mycorrhizal Association and Microbial Activity of Soil Cultivated with Cassava After Application of Mesotrione and Fluazifop-p-Butyl

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.M. Silveira ◽  
D.V. Silva ◽  
C.A.D. Melo ◽  
M.D.C. Neto ◽  
D.T. Saraiva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Microbial Activity ◽  
Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Microbial Biomass Carbon ◽  
Abiotic Factors ◽  
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal ◽  
Microbial Indicators ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mycorrhizal Association

Soil is a very heterogeneous environment that allows the establishment of wide range of microorganisms populations, whose balance is affected by biotic and abiotic factors. This study has aimed to assess the effect of doses of mesotrione and fluazifop-p-butyl herbicides and two assessment periods on microbial activity and biomass of soil cultivated with cassava Cacau-UFV cultivar, besides the root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Two trials were conducted in a protected environment where was realized post-emergence application of mesotrione in the doses of 72, 108, 144 and 216 g ha-1 and fluazifop-p-butyl in the doses of 100, 150, 200 and 300 g ha-1, besides a control without application. Soil samples were collected for determination of soil respiratory rate (RR), microbial biomass carbon (MBC), metabolic quotient (qCO2), and colonization of roots by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at the 30 and 60 days after applications (DAA) of the herbicides. Fluazifop-p-butyl increased the RR, MBC and the percentage of cassava roots colonized by mycorrhizal fungi in the assessment performed at 60 DAA. The larger effects of mesotrione on soil microbial indicators were up to 30 DAA, being the changes minimized at 60 DAA. It is concluded that the herbicides alter the soil microbial indicators, with effects dependent of the product, of dose applied and also of the period of assessment.

The Research and Application of Reclamation Technology in Complex Matrix of VA Mycorrhiza on Coal Mine Abandoned Wasteland

2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 2224-2227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Ying Zhou ◽  
Guo Xiang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Activity ◽  
Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Mine Waste ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Weight Ratio ◽  
Soil Microbial Activity ◽  
Complex Matrix ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
The Matrix

The exploitation of coal resources will lead to land damage and the emission of solid wastes, and will also lead to structural differences in mining wasteland, nutrient poor, low microbial activity, and vegetation planting difficult, causing serious environmental problems. Draw sludge into mine waste, construct different weight ratio of sludge, coal gangue and fly ash mining complex matrix, study the effect on the physical and chemical properties of composite matrix in mine lot which affected by mycorrhizal fungi through the soil property recover experiment of host plants inoculated with mycorrhizal clover ochratoxin, CIT. Preliminary studies show that inoculate mycorrhizal fungi and add appropriate amount of sludge can improve the matrix fertility in mine site, increase soil microbial activity and accelerate the process of mining land reclamation.

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