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Abstract
Background and aims
In arable soil, the formation of occluded phosphate restricts the bioavailability of phosphorus (P). Straw incorporation effectively increases available P, but it stimulates CH4 emission from paddy fields. Periphytic biofilms (PB), growing at soil-water interface, exert significant impacts on physical, chemical and biological characteristics of paddy soil. However, the effects of PB decomposition on P bioavailability remain unclear.
Methods
We conducted a microcosm experiment to explore the pathways how PB decomposition affected Olsen-P by comparing it with straw (ST) decomposition from perspectives of soil porosity, DOM compounds, reducing environment and microbial functions.
Results
Both PB and ST decomposition significantly increased soil Olsen-P concentration, but their pathways differed substantially. PB decomposition primarily enhanced Olsen-P by augmenting soil porosity, recalcitrant DOM compounds, bacterial species richness, bpp gene abundance, and facilitating Fe3+ reduction. Conversely, ST decomposition predominantly enhanced P bioavailability by augmenting soil reducibility.
Conclusion
PB biomass decomposition has more significant effects on soil Olsen-P than ST by influencing soil porosity, DOM, microbial community and reducing environment characteristics. These insights will offer valuable perspectives for leveraging PB biomass to improve soil P availability and reduce P input in paddy ecosystems.
期刊介绍:
Plant and Soil publishes original papers and review articles exploring the interface of plant biology and soil sciences, and that enhance our mechanistic understanding of plant-soil interactions. We focus on the interface of plant biology and soil sciences, and seek those manuscripts with a strong mechanistic component which develop and test hypotheses aimed at understanding underlying mechanisms of plant-soil interactions. Manuscripts can include both fundamental and applied aspects of mineral nutrition, plant water relations, symbiotic and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions, root anatomy and morphology, soil biology, ecology, agrochemistry and agrophysics, as long as they are hypothesis-driven and enhance our mechanistic understanding. Articles including a major molecular or modelling component also fall within the scope of the journal. All contributions appear in the English language, with consistent spelling, using either American or British English.