Biochar decreased rhizodeposits stabilization via opposite effects on bacteria and fungi: diminished fungi-promoted aggregation and enhanced bacterial mineralization

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  • Zhiyi Chen
  • Amit Kumar
  • Yingyi Fu
  • Bhupinder Pal Singh
  • Tida Ge
  • Hua Tu
  • Yu Luo
  • Jianming Xu

Ryegrass was pulse-labeled with enriched 13CO2 for 18 h, followed by dynamic photosynthetic-carbon (13C) quantification in the plant (shoot, root), soil aggregates (three size classes), and microbial phospholipids fatty acids (PLFA-SIP) in soil amended with or without 700 °C-pyrolyzed biochar. We observed that biochar led to no difference of 13C allocation in shoot or root but reduced 88.7% of total 13C in soil, with decreased incorporation by 92.8% (macroaggregates), 94.5% (microaggregates), and 84.1% (silt-clays), respectively, compared to biochar-unamended soil. Meanwhile, biochar exerted negative effects on fungal relative abundance but led to positive impacts on that of bacteria, e.g., it reduced root-associated fungi (i.e., 16:1ω5c) and fungal-assimilated 13C (from averagely 71.2 ng C g−1 soil to 26.3 ng C g−1 soil after biochar application). The enhanced bacteria/fungi could be driven by biochar-mediated pH increase that relieved acid stress to bacteria. Co-occurrence network confirmed that biochar addition favored bacteria to compete with fungi, leading to decreased aggregation and stability (indicated by reduced normalized mean weight diameter) due to less fungal entangling with aggregates, thus exposing the rhizodeposits to bacterial (i.e., actinomycetes) decomposition. The correlation analysis further evidenced that fungal abundance was associated with 13C accumulation in soil aggregates, while bacterial relative abundance especially that of actinomycetes was negatively correlated with 13C accumulation. Random forest modeling (RF) supported the contributions of fungi to 13C-sequestration compared to bacteria. Taken together, we concluded that less stabilization of rhizodeposits in the biochar-amended soil was due to changes in microbial community, particularly the balance of fungi-bacteria and their interactions with soil physicochemical properties, i.e., aggregation and pH.

Original languageEnglish
JournalBiology and Fertility of Soils
Volume57
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)533-546
Number of pages14
ISSN0178-2762
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 05.2021

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