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. 2021 Dec;101(15):6472-6483.
doi: 10.1002/jsfa.11319. Epub 2021 May 31.

Soil bacterial microbiota predetermines rice yield in reclaiming saline-sodic soils leached with brackish ice

Lu Zhang  1   2 , An-Hui Ge  2   3 , Tibor Tóth  4 , Fenghua An  1 , Liangliang Guo  1   2 , Zhaoyang Nie  1   2 , Jianbo Liu  1   2 , Fan Yang  1 , Zhichun Wang  1
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Soil bacterial microbiota predetermines rice yield in reclaiming saline-sodic soils leached with brackish ice

Lu Zhang et al. J Sci Food Agric. 2021 Dec.

Abstract

Background: Saline-sodic lands threaten the food supply and ecological security in the western Songnen Plain of northeast China, and the gypsum is commonly adopted for restoration. However, the dynamics of soil bacterial community and the correlation with crop yield during restoring processes remain poorly understood. Here, we elucidated the soil chemical properties and bacterial communities and their associations with rice yield under different flue gas desulphurization gypsum (FGDG) application rates combined with brackish ice leaching.

Results: The increased application rate of FGDG generally improved soil reclamation effects, as indicated by soil chemical properties, bacterial diversity, and rice yield. Compared with fresh ice irrigation, the rice yield in brackish ice treatment increased by 15.84%, and the soil alkalinity and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) decreased by 35.19% and 10.30%, respectively. The bacterial alpha diversity significantly correlated and predicted rice yield as early as brackish ice melt, suggesting the bacterial diversity was a sensitive indicator in predicting rice yield. Meanwhile, the bacterial communities in the control possessed a high abundance of oligotrophic Firmicutes, while eutrophic bacterial taxa (e.g. Proteobacteria) were enriched after brackish water irrigation and FGDG application. Moreover, we also established a Random Forest model and identified a bacterial consortium that explained an 80.0% variance of rice yield.

Conclusion: Together, our results highlight the reclaiming effect of brackish ice in the saline-sodic field and demonstrate the sensitivity and importance of the soil bacterial community in predicting crop yield, which would provide essential knowledge on the soil quality indication and bio-fertilizer development for soil reclamation. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry.

Keywords: Random Forest; bacterial community; brackish ice; flue gas desulphurization gypsum; saline-sodic soil.

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