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Environmental driving factors of diazotrophic community diversity and activity in Chinese paddy soils
To clarify the geographical distribution pattern of asymbiotic nitrogen activity and diazotrophic community in paddy soils, and to understand the primary environmental driving factors driving asymbiotic nitrog...
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Open Access15N-DNA stable isotope probing reveals niche differentiation of ammonia oxidizers in paddy soils
Chemoautotrophic canonical ammonia oxidizers (ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB)) and complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox Nitrospira) are accountable for ammonia oxidation, whic...
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The proliferation of beneficial bacteria influences the soil C, N, and P cycling in the soybean–maize intercrop** system
Soybean–maize intercrop** system can improve the utilization rate of farmland and the sustainability of crop production systems. However, there is a significant gap in understanding the interaction mechanism...
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Soil amendment strategies determining microbial community composition and their assembly processes in a continuously cropped soil
Phyla Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes dominated in the rhizosphere of tomatoes under RSD amendment.
Stochastic processes do...
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Effect of Different Microplastics on Phosphorus Availability in an Alkaline Paddy Soil
Microplastics (MPs) can affect phosphorus (P) cycling in paddy fields by changing soil properties and microbial community function, but their impact on soil P availability remains unclear. A laboratory incubat...
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Exposure to multiple pesticides in drinking water and potential health risks: a case study of selected districts from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
Pesticides are environmental contaminants of great interest because of their toxicity, persistence in the environment and bio-accumulative nature. However, there is a scarcity of literature concerning human ex...
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Elevated CO2 altered the nano-ZnO-induced influence on bacterial and fungal composition in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) rhizosphere soils
To investigate whether elevated CO2 (eCO2) changes the influence of nanoparticles (NPs) on soil microbial communities and the mechanisms, various nano-ZnO (0, 100, 300, and 500 mg·kg−1) and CO2 concentrations (40...
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MWCNTs/hydroxypropyl cellulose/polyethylene glycol-based shape-stabilized phase change materials
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is widely used as phase change materials (PCMs). However, the leakage and low thermal conductivity issues restrict its practical application. Herein, a series of novel MWCNTs/HPC/PEG ...
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Biological nitrification inhibition by sorghum root exudates impacts ammonia-oxidizing bacteria but not ammonia-oxidizing archaea
Sorghum has a great capacity to release biological nitrification inhibitors (BNIs), but the inhibitory effect on nitrification and ammonia oxidizer populations under planted soil conditions is unclear. A pot e...
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Competitive interaction between Frankliniella occidentalis and locally present thrips species: a global review
The most severe outcome of the widespread interspecific competition that occurs between invasive organisms and their local congeners is species displacement. The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis ...
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Influence of reductive soil disinfestation or biochar amendment on bacterial communities and their utilization of plant-derived carbon in the rhizosphere of tomato
Root-associated microorganisms play an important role in plant nutrition and productivity. However, our understanding of how a plant-microbiome system responds to pre-planting soil management remains limited. ...
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Reclamation with organic amendments and plants remodels the diversity and structure of bacterial community in ion-adsorption rare earth element mine tailings
The success of phytoremediation relies on beneficial plant-microbe interactions. However, the changes of soil microbiota, during the phytoremediation of ion-adsorption rare earth element (REE) mine tailings, a...
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The influence on biosorption potentials of metal-resistant bacteria Enterobacter sp. EG16 and Bacillus subtilis DBM by typical red soil minerals
Due to the inevitable interaction between bacteria and soil minerals, whether bacteria could exert the excepted functions in the soil is yet to be confirmed and how minerals affect biosorption potential is nee...
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Sanitary landfill improved CNPS microbial functional gene abundance compared to non-sanitary landfill
The landfill soil microbes related to nutrient cycling, such as carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and sulfur (S) cycling, are changed by continuous waste decomposition. Monitoring the changes that occu...
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Dynamic changes in soil chemical properties and microbial community structure in response to different nitrogen fertilizers in an acidified celery soil
To determine the effects of different kinds of nitrogen fertilizer, especially high-efficiency slow-release fertilizers, on soil pH, nitrogen (N) and microbial community structures in an acidic celery soil, fo...
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Response of symbiotic and asymbiotic nitrogen-fixing microorganisms to nitrogen fertilizer application
Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) plays an important role in nitrogen cycling by transferring atmospheric dinitrogen to the soil. BNF is performed by symbiotic and asymbiotic nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. H...
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The relative contribution of nitrifiers to autotrophic nitrification across a pH-gradient in a vegetable cropped soil
Microbial nitrification plays an important role in nitrogen cycling in ecosystems. Nitrification is performed by ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), and nitrite-oxidizing bacteri...
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Increased leaching and addition of amendments improve the properties of seawater-neutralized bauxite residue as a growth medium
Laboratory and greenhouse experiments were carried out to investigate the chemical, physical, and microbial properties of seawater-neutralized bauxite residues and the effects of additional leaching (1 pore vo...
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Variations in the biomass of Eucalyptus plantations at a regional scale in Southern China
We quantified deviations in regional forest biomass from simple extrapolation of plot data by the biomass expansion factor method (BEF) versus estimates obtained from a local biomass model, based on large-scal...
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Fertilization with inorganic and organic nutrients changes diazotroph community composition and N-fixation rates
Nitrogen fixation by free-living diazotrophs from the atmosphere is an important pathway for nitrogen input into the soil. However, there is little information regarding soil diazotrophic community composition...
