{"title":"Soil permeability shaping ARGs patterns by affecting soil available nutrients in paddy fields","authors":"Qiutong Jin, , Ningyuan Zhu, Bin Hu, Yang Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.envpol.2025.125736","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Though the evidence for soil property could influence the antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) profiles is mounting, studies regarding the effect of soil permeability on soil ARGs patterns are still ignored. This study investigated the dynamic distribution of ARGs in paddy fields with different soil permeability over various rice growing stages, as well as revealed the abiotic and biotic factors that shaping ARGs profiles. Results indicate that soil with high permeability improved the ARGs abundance through elevating the available nutrients in the soil. The ARGs abundance trend across rice growth stages was consistent in different zones (decreasing at heading, increasing at maturity), with high-permeability soil showing minimal variation. The partial least-squares path model (PLS-PM) revealed that soil available nutrients (e.g., AP and NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>-N) and potential hosts (e.g., <em>Bradyrhizobium</em> and <em>Serratia</em>) play key roles in driving ARGs dynamics in soils with varying permeability. Meanwhile, increased permeability stabilized ventilation conditions, raising redox potential (Eh) in flooded soils, thus reducing the variation rate of ARGs in soil. This study offers important insights into the dissemination of ARGs in paddy fields across different levels of soil permeability.","PeriodicalId":311,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Pollution","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.125736","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Though the evidence for soil property could influence the antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) profiles is mounting, studies regarding the effect of soil permeability on soil ARGs patterns are still ignored. This study investigated the dynamic distribution of ARGs in paddy fields with different soil permeability over various rice growing stages, as well as revealed the abiotic and biotic factors that shaping ARGs profiles. Results indicate that soil with high permeability improved the ARGs abundance through elevating the available nutrients in the soil. The ARGs abundance trend across rice growth stages was consistent in different zones (decreasing at heading, increasing at maturity), with high-permeability soil showing minimal variation. The partial least-squares path model (PLS-PM) revealed that soil available nutrients (e.g., AP and NH4+-N) and potential hosts (e.g., Bradyrhizobium and Serratia) play key roles in driving ARGs dynamics in soils with varying permeability. Meanwhile, increased permeability stabilized ventilation conditions, raising redox potential (Eh) in flooded soils, thus reducing the variation rate of ARGs in soil. This study offers important insights into the dissemination of ARGs in paddy fields across different levels of soil permeability.
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Environmental Pollution is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality research papers and review articles covering all aspects of environmental pollution and its impacts on ecosystems and human health.
Subject areas include, but are not limited to:
• Sources and occurrences of pollutants that are clearly defined and measured in environmental compartments, food and food-related items, and human bodies;
• Interlinks between contaminant exposure and biological, ecological, and human health effects, including those of climate change;
• Contaminants of emerging concerns (including but not limited to antibiotic resistant microorganisms or genes, microplastics/nanoplastics, electronic wastes, light, and noise) and/or their biological, ecological, or human health effects;
• Laboratory and field studies on the remediation/mitigation of environmental pollution via new techniques and with clear links to biological, ecological, or human health effects;
• Modeling of pollution processes, patterns, or trends that is of clear environmental and/or human health interest;
• New techniques that measure and examine environmental occurrences, transport, behavior, and effects of pollutants within the environment or the laboratory, provided that they can be clearly used to address problems within regional or global environmental compartments.