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{"title":"Warmer summers have the potential to affect food security by increasing the prevalence and activity of Actinobacteria","authors":"Yuanyuan Bao ,&nbsp;Jan Dolfing ,&nbsp;Zhiying Guo ,&nbsp;Jie Liu ,&nbsp;Xianzhang Pan ,&nbsp;Xiaodan Cui ,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Wang ,&nbsp;Yang Jin ,&nbsp;Lixia Zhang ,&nbsp;Ruirui Chen ,&nbsp;Xin Li ,&nbsp;Youzhi Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103708","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103708","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate warming impacts agricultural ecosystems in an unpredictable manner. Below-ground microbes are pivotal for aboveground productivity, but their influences on crop productivity in a warming climate are unknown. We conducted a regional-scale field survey in 253 rice‒wheat rotation systems using bacterial 16S amplicon sequencing and satellite-derived crop net primary productivity (NPP) data to investigate the relationships between soil bacteria and crop NPP under different temperatures. <em>Actinobacteria</em> were identified as the main driver of crop NPP, accounting for 4.2 % of the variation, with summer warming accounting for 11.9 % of the increase in their relative abundance. Summer warming resulted in an increase in antibiotic production genes within <em>Actinobacteria</em>, potentially reducing crop productivity by inhibiting seed germination and root elongation and by suppressing plant growth-promoting microorganisms. Taken together, our study indicates that warmer summers are expected to increase the relative abundance of soil <em>Actinobacteria</em> in rice-wheat rotation systems, which will negatively impact crop NPP due to their production of antibiotics that suppress beneficial plant microbes and/or inhibit crop seed germination and root elongation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103708"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soil phosphorus dynamics and its correlation with ectomycorrhizal fungi following forest conversion in subtropical conifer (Picea asperata) forests","authors":"Lixia Wang ,&nbsp;Shiyu Song ,&nbsp;Huichao Li ,&nbsp;Yang Liu ,&nbsp;Lin Xu ,&nbsp;Han Li ,&nbsp;Chengming You ,&nbsp;Sining Liu ,&nbsp;Hongwei Xu ,&nbsp;Bo Tan ,&nbsp;Zhenfeng Xu ,&nbsp;Li Zhang ,&nbsp;Hans Lambers ,&nbsp;Douglas Godbold","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103712","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103712","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi or their associated microbes play key roles in mobilizing phosphorus (P) from soil organic matter. Forest conversion often alters soil P availability. However, the correlation between P dynamics caused by forest conversion and changes in ECM fungi is not clear. To dress this issue, we create ECM-reduction (trenched) and ECM-intact (untrenched) conditions in the natural forest and plantation. We then measured soil microbial properties, fungal communities, and P fractions. Our results showed that the natural forest exhibited a higher proportion of inorganic phosphorus (Pi) and a lower proportion of organic phosphorus (Po) compared to the plantation, indicating that forest conversion resulted in a decrease in P mineralization. Under ECM-reduction conditions, resin-Pi contents increased in both forest types. ECM-reduction led to an increase in NaOH-Pi and a decrease in NaOH-Po in both forest types. However, ECM-reduction decreased the 1 M HCl-Pi content in the natural forest while increasing it in the plantation. Structural equation modeling revealed that in the natural forest, trenching directly affected the reads number of ECM fungi, which subsequently influenced 1 M HCl-Pi and resin-Pi contents. In the plantation, trenching impacted NaOH-Po and ECM reads number, which were associated with changes in residual-P and resin-Pi contents. These findings highlight that ECM fungi differ in their utilization of resin-Pi and their ability to mobilize primary mineral Pi (1 M HCl-Pi) and poorly-available P, depending on the soil quality of natural forests and plantations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103712"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of nitrogen addition and seasonal changes on moss biocrust soil fungal communities in a temperate desert","authors":"Tingwen Huang ,&nbsp;Xi-En Long ,&nbsp;Weiguo Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103703","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103703","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many studies have reported that changes in nitrogen (N) deposition affect the structure and diversity of fungal communities in moss crust soils, but few studies have addressed the seasonal patterns of soil fungal community response to N inputs in desert habitats. Therefore, we conducted a one-time field N addition experiment in March 2017 in the Gurbantünggüt Desert, northwestern China. Four N addition rates, 0 (CK), 1.8 (LN), 3.6 (MN), and 7.2 (HN) g N m⁻² yr⁻¹, were applied, and soil was sampled at different seasons. We found that the effects of N addition on soil fungal communities varied with season, with stronger effects in November and March compared to May. Seasonal variation strongly affected fungal community structure, composition, and function, with the highest diversity index in May. The impact of N addition on fungal communities is attributed to changes in soil pH, total phosphorus, and available phosphorus, while the effect of season on fungal communities is driven by changes in temperature, soil moisture and soil organic carbon. Additionally, season has a greater effect on fungal communities than N addition. Overall, the fungal communities in soils underlying moss crusts responded strongly to seasonal variation, but their response to N addition was seasonally dependent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103703"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carbon and energy utilization in microbial cell extracts from soil","authors":"Milan Varsadiya ,&nbsp;Fatemeh Dehghani ,&nbsp;Shiyue Yang ,&nbsp;Evgenia Blagodatskaya ,&nbsp;Thomas Maskow ,&nbsp;Dimitri V. Meier ,&nbsp;Tillmann Lueders","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE), the ratio of carbon retained in biomass vs. total C uptake, is central to our understanding of organic C turnover in soil. A precise quantification of CUE in soils can be challenging, given the considerable analytical uncertainties of organic and inorganic C backgrounds. At the same time, CUE measured for model pure cultures will be distinct from a diverse microbiota in soil. As a proxy between laboratory cultures and complex soil microbiomes, we tested soil-free microbial cell extracts (SFCE) to unravel patterns of C utilization in soil-derived microbiomes of reduced complexity. For this, we have revisited and optimized established protocols to extract microbial cells from agricultural soil via Nycodenz density centrifugation. The total extracted cells were quantified, accounting for up to ∼3.5 × 10⁷ cells g⁻¹ soil and representing ∼12.5 % of the original soil microbiome. The diversity of microbes in SFCE, while consistently reduced compared to soil, still retained a surprisingly high proportion of the original soil microbiome, with ASVs recovered from 21 phyla. We then inferred CUE from calorespirometric measurements (metabolic heat flow and CO₂ production) to compare values between SFCE and intact soil. Both were amended with substrates (glucose, glutamine, and glycerol) of different C and N content, and C oxidation state (NOSC). SFCE showed CUE values principally comparable to that of the intact soil, but with substrate-specific distinctions. Amplicon sequencing and qPCR-based quantification showed typical soil taxa like <em>Pseudomonas</em>, <em>Pseudarthrobacter</em>, and <em>Bacteroidota</em> to respond to substrate addition in soil and SFCE. Our results support the use of SFCE as a valuable and complementary approach toward elucidating microbial CUE and growth patterns for complex soil microbiota.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103713"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143152991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Responses of soil microbial community structure under litter to changes in precipitation and nitrogen addition in a desert steppe","authors":"Jinpeng Ma ,&nbsp;Lin Chen ,&nbsp;Danbo Pang ,&nbsp;Yinglong Chen ,&nbsp;Mengyao Wu ,&nbsp;Yaqi Zhang ,&nbsp;Wenqiang He ,&nbsp;Xuebin Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103696","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103696","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Soil microorganisms are essential in maintaining terrestrial ecosystem function and are central drivers of soil-plant nutrient cycling. However, relatively few studies have explored the impact of precipitation and nitrogen (N) addition on soil microbial community structure beneath litter. In this study, we conducted a field simulation control experiment on litter decomposition under varying precipitation regimes (normal, increased by 30 %, and decreased by 30 %) and N addition levels (0 and 10 g m⁻² y⁻¹) in the desert steppe of Yanchi County, China. Our findings revealed that changes in precipitation and N addition promoted litter decomposition and caused the accumulation of soil nutrients. Specifically, N addition significantly increased nitrate nitrogen (51.95 %), ammonium nitrogen (42.92 %), soil organic carbon (6.81 %), and total phosphorus (7.82 %)(<em>P</em>＜0.05), decreased precipitation significantly elevated contents of nitrate nitrogen (26.80 %), total nitrogen (24.47 %), soil organic carbon (37.62 %), total phosphorus (22.78 %), and microbial biomass C (33.20 %) (<em>P</em>＜0.05). N addition decreased microbial biomarkers content by 1.13 %, but increased microbial diversity indices (<em>Shannon-Wiener</em> index (1.53 %)<em>, Brillouin</em> diversity index (0.54 %)<em>, Pielou</em> evenness index (1.12 %)<em>, Simpson</em> dominance index (0.91 %)<em>, Mcintosh</em> diversity index (1.11 %)) (<em>P</em>＜0.05). Meanwhile, decreased precipitation significantly enhanced microbial biomarkers content by 5.83 % and diversity indices (<em>Shannon-Wiener</em> index (3.67 %)<em>, Brillouin</em> diversity index (2.16 %)<em>, Pielou</em> evenness index (1.55 %)<em>, Simpson</em> dominance index (1.82 %)<em>, Mcintosh</em> diversity index (2.63 %)) (<em>P</em>＜0.05). We indicated the decreased precipitation enhanced the effect of N addition on microbial community and diversity, while increased precipitation showed the opposite trend. Redundancy analysis highlighted MBC as a critical factor influencing microbial community structure, accounting for 35.3 % of the variation (<em>P</em>＜0.01). This study provides valuable insights into managing and conserving desert steppe ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103696"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Legacy effects of grazing and nitrogen fertilization on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Lan Li ,&nbsp;Xiong Zhao He ,&nbsp;Yi Sun ,&nbsp;Tianhao Xiao ,&nbsp;Yang Liu ,&nbsp;Fujiang Hou","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103704","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103704","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) storage can help mitigate climate change and sustain soil fertility. Changes in herbivore and anthropogenic nutrient enrichment intensities can lead to dramatic shifts in the plant and microbial communities, soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrient dynamics. However, the legacy effects of grazing and N enrichment on the biogeochemical processes remain unclear. Here, we conducted a 6-year rotational grazing (Stocking rates: 0, 8 and 16 sheep ha⁻¹) and 4-year N-addition (N addition levels: 0, 50, 100 and 200 kg N ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) experiment to investigate how soil C, N and phosphorus (P) components respond to the legacy effects of grazing and N fertilization after a 3-year cessation of grazing and N addition treatments in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). We show that previous grazing significantly increased soil total nitrogen (STN), slightly increased SOC and decreased soil total phosphorus (STP); while previous N fertilization significantly decreased SOC, but it did not significantly alter STN and STP. Previous grazing at low stocking rates (≤ 8 sheep ha⁻¹) might amplify the negative legacy effects of N fertilization on SOC, while a higher stocking rate would weaken the negative impacts of previous N fertilization on SOC. The interactive and synergistic impacts of historical grazing and N fertilization induced a significantly negative effect on STP. Previous N fertilization decreased soil microbial carbon (MBC) and increased soil available N:P, resulting in the reduction of SOC. The increase in plant diversity caused by previous grazing increased SOC, which counteracted the negative effects of increasing bacterial diversity. Previous grazing-induced decreasing bacterial community heterogeneity may lead to increased STN. Although previous grazing-induced increases in soil moisture and soil nutrient availability may have positive effects on STP, previous grazing-induced negative effects on STP may exceed those positive effects. Therefore, the legacy effects of grazing could be beneficial for improving soil C and N, but may increase the risk of soil P loss in the short term, while residual exogenous N could pose a detrimental effect on C storage over time. Reintroducing grazing and/or P addition may be an appropriate choice to offset the adverse consequence of N deposition in the context of global change. Our findings suggest that the stocking rate at about 8 sheep ha⁻¹ could be a suitable grassland management technique for soil fertility sequestration and mitigating the negative influences of residual exogenous N in the QTP.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103704"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fire and clipping drive microbial fixation pathways in soil phosphorus and sulfur cycling in China's key karst region","authors":"Ansa Rebi ,&nbsp;Guan Wang ,&nbsp;Irsa Ejaz ,&nbsp;Trevan Flynn ,&nbsp;Jasper Kanomanyanga ,&nbsp;Tao Yang ,&nbsp;Adnan Mustafa ,&nbsp;Jinxing Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103707","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103707","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite growing interest in nutrient cycling genes, the influence of fire and clipping on soil microbes, phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S) cycling genes in Karst landscape remain unclear yet are critical for soil fertility in vegetation restoration landscape. Microorganisms have developed various adaptive mechanisms to improve nutrient availability in the soil in response to various landscape disturbances. In this study, we analyzed soil microbial communities and their role in mediating 90 P and 46 S genes under five fire and clipping management practices including: high-intensity fire (HIF), low-intensity fire (LIF), clipping and fire (CF), clipping (CP), and undisturbed control (CK) in Jianshui research station, Yunan province, China. The results indicated no significant (p &lt; 0.05) differences in the predominant bacterial and fungal genera among the treatments. For bacterial compositions such as Sphingomonas, the relative abundance was highest (0.069 %) in LIF. In contrast, the relative abundance of Micromonospora was lowest (0.012 %) in LIF compared to CK. In the case of the fungal genus, Rhizophagus and Trichophyton were highest (0.187, 0.128 %) in CP and LIF respectively compared to control. Bacterial diversity was highest in CF (4.69) following the CK (4.71) while Fungal diversity was highest in CP (3.33) following the CK. P cycling genes increased in LIF, particularly those related to organic phosphoester hydrolysis and transporters, while the other treatments showed no considerable changes. S cycling genes related to S mineralization and assimilation increased in HIF and LIF, respectively, with CF showing a higher presence of sulfide cycling genes. Network analysis of P and S cycling genes indicated that S interactions formed tighter clusters under fire and clipping treatments, while P interactions had more extensive connectivity among genes. These findings underscore the distinct roles and network behaviours of P and S and provide valuable insights into the microbial mechanisms that regulate P availability and S cycling in Karst soils treated with fire and clipping. This also sheds light on the taxonomy of the microbes involved in informed decision-making in karst landscape management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103707"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143152989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soil bacterial communities benefit from long-term cover crop mixtures","authors":"Biyensa Gurmessa ,&nbsp;Ranjith P. Udawatta ,&nbsp;R. Tharindu Rambadagalla ,&nbsp;Timothy Reinbott","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103714","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103714","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the long-term impacts of cover cropping on soil health indicators is vital for developing sustainable farming practices. The aim of the current study was to investigate the impacts of long-term mixed cover crops practice in a no-till system on soil bacterial community abundance and diversity using 16S rRNA sequencing. We compared three cover crop practices againist a no-cover crop control (NCC): cereal rye only (Rye), a mixture of cereal rye and hairy vetch (RyeHV), and a mixture of cereal rye, hairy vetch, crimson clover, and Australian winter pea (Mixed). These treatments were arranged in a completely randomized block design with four replications. The abundance of soil bacteria was lower in the Rye treatment compared to the Mixed and RyeHV treatments, possibly due to the uniform supply of resources (exudates) and the limited root structure, rather than due to the increased soil bulk density or reduced organic carbon. This reduction was observed in the total operational taxonomic units and the dominant taxa groups, including Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Acidobacteria. Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling analysis, using Bray-Curtis dissimilarity, revealed distinct bacterial community structure between the Rye and the rest of treatments, but with a potential overlap of that of NCC with all the cover crop treatments. In conclusion, our study revealed that unlike mixed species cover crops, a single species cover crops may compete for resources with soil bacterial community, leading to a reduced abundance of soil bacteria. Moreover, possible positive impact of cover cropping on soil physicochemical properties may not always have relationships with soil bacterial alpha diversity. Future research should explore attributes of mixed cover crops that may be crucial in driving microbial community structure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103714"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143549154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of long-term sugarcane-soybean intercropping coupled with varying levels of nitrogen input on soil legacies: A field experimental study","authors":"Shiqiang Ge ,&nbsp;Muhammad Shoaib Rana ,&nbsp;Zixuan Li ,&nbsp;Yongjian Chen ,&nbsp;Zixuan Wang ,&nbsp;Chang Shen ,&nbsp;Tantan Zhang ,&nbsp;Yinghua Shu ,&nbsp;Jianwu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Long-term agricultural management practices alter the biochemical properties of soil, leading to the formation of distinct soil legacies. Sugarcane-soybean intercropping is recognized as a sustainable and stable agricultural practice, while the application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer is essential for enhancing crop yields. However, research on the effects of long-term sugarcane-soybean intercropping coupled with varying N levels on soil legacies remains limited. Therefore, we selected four treatments in a long-term field experiment: sugarcane monoculture with reduced N application (MSN1), sugarcane monoculture with conventional N application (MSN2), sugarcane-soybean intercropping with reduced N application (SB2N1), and sugarcane-soybean intercropping with conventional N application (SB2N2). The study aims to investigate the effects of soybean intercropping coupled with varying N application levels on soil abiotic (chemical properties) and biotic (microbial communities) legacies. The results showed that under conventional N application (525 kg ha⁻¹), intercropping, compared to monoculture, significantly increased the contents of total potassium (TK), nitrate nitrogen (NO₃⁻), available zinc (AZn) and the network complexity of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) community. Under intercropping conditions, reduced N application (300 kg ha⁻¹), compared to conventional N application, significantly increased the content of exchangeable calcium (ECa), pH, as well as the alpha diversity and network complexity of the bacterial community. Under monocropping conditions, conventional N application significantly increased the complexity of the bacterial community network. Stochastic processes dominated the assembly of bacterial and AMF communities, but under the same cropping pattern, deterministic processes in fungal communities increased with N application. Soil pH, N nutrients, and trace metal elements are key factors affecting the diversity and composition of soil microbial communities. These findings highlight the significant impact of intercropped soybean on soil legacies, whereas the N level of application plays a key role in regulating the effectiveness of biotic and abiotic soil legacies. This study provides valuable insights into managing soil legacies and provides a theoretical basis for the development of sustainable agriculture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103711"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biosolids blended with edaphic supports mimic structural and biochemical features of natural soils and foster plant biomass growth","authors":"Filipe Behrends Kraemer ,&nbsp;Diana P. Wehrendt ,&nbsp;Anabella Tobler ,&nbsp;Daiana Sainz ,&nbsp;Lucas Barbieri Oliveri ,&nbsp;Linda Jungwirth ,&nbsp;Paula Fontana ,&nbsp;Cristian Weigandt ,&nbsp;Patricia L. Fernández ,&nbsp;Melisa Altina ,&nbsp;Leandro D. Guerrero ,&nbsp;Rodrigo Pontiggia ,&nbsp;Leonardo Erijman","doi":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejsobi.2025.103709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Biosolids can be blended with edaphic components to formulate customized soil mixes (Technosols), where specific nutrient levels, moisture content, and other factors are tailored to support plant growth. The aim of this work was to evaluate constructed Technosols regarding specific physical, rheological, and biochemical characteristics, as well as for their ability to meet the growth requirements of rye grass. Soil horizons A and C, and quarry waste, were examined both individually as controls and in binary combinations with biosolids, maintaining a ratio of 70:30 in a replicated pot experiment. After 35 days, half of the pots were seeded with ryegrass (<em>Lolium perenne</em> ssp). After 3,5 months, the following physical, chemical, and rheological properties were measured: bulk density; plastic limit; liquid limit; saturated hydraulic conductivity; aggregate stability, organic matter and total Kjeldahl nitrogen. Enzyme activities were determined using fluorogenic substrates, whereas total bacterial and fungal composition was assessed through qPCR and amplicon sequencing using respectively 16S rRNA gene and ITS gene primers. Biosolids-based Technosols exhibited soil-like behavior across various examined variables, such as aggregate stability, microbial community composition and the yield of harvested plant biomass. Changes in the physical and chemical characteristics of mixtures containing biosolids were accompanied by corresponding changes in enzyme activities, as well as by shifts in absolute bacterial and fungal abundance. Biosolid-based Technosols possess the capability to establish sustainable and effective aggregation conditions, maintaining satisfactory water retention levels, and fostering favorable microbiological and biochemical conditions to fulfill essential soil functions, including biomass production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12057,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Biology","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 103709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143153811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}