Protist communities are more sensitive to nitrogen fertilization than other microorganisms in diverse agricultural soils

TY - JOUR

T1 - Protist communities are more sensitive to nitrogen fertilization than other microorganisms in diverse agricultural soils

AU - Zhao, Zhi-Bo

AU - He, Ji-Zheng

AU - Geisen, Stefan

AU - Han, Li-Li

AU - Wang, Jun-Tao

AU - Shen, Ju-Pei

AU - Wei, Wen-Xue

AU - Fang, Yun-Ting

AU - Li, Pei-Pei

AU - Zhang, Li-Mei

N1 - 6736, TE; Data archiving: data archived in NCBI, not NIOO data

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Agricultural food production is at the base of food and fodder, with fertilization having fundamentally and continuously increased crop yield over the last decades. The performance of crops is intimately tied to their microbiome as they together form holobionts. The importance of the microbiome for plant performance is, however, notoriously ignored in agricultural systems as fertilization disconnects the dependency of plants for often plant-beneficial microbial processes. Moreover, we lack a holistic understanding of how fertilization regimes affect the soil microbiome. Here, we examined the effect of a 2-year fertilization regime (no nitrogen fertilization control, nitrogen fertilization, and nitrogen fertilization plus straw amendment) on entire soil microbiomes (bacteria, fungi, and protist) in three common agricultural soil types cropped with maize in two seasons.

AB - Agricultural food production is at the base of food and fodder, with fertilization having fundamentally and continuously increased crop yield over the last decades. The performance of crops is intimately tied to their microbiome as they together form holobionts. The importance of the microbiome for plant performance is, however, notoriously ignored in agricultural systems as fertilization disconnects the dependency of plants for often plant-beneficial microbial processes. Moreover, we lack a holistic understanding of how fertilization regimes affect the soil microbiome. Here, we examined the effect of a 2-year fertilization regime (no nitrogen fertilization control, nitrogen fertilization, and nitrogen fertilization plus straw amendment) on entire soil microbiomes (bacteria, fungi, and protist) in three common agricultural soil types cropped with maize in two seasons.

KW - international

U2 - 10.1186/s40168-019-0647-0

DO - 10.1186/s40168-019-0647-0

M3 - Article

SN - 2049-2618

VL - 7

JO - Microbiome

JF - Microbiome

IS - 1

ER -