Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 140-149. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193000

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Soil Bacterial Community Characteristics and Ecological Function Prediction at Different Rice Growth Stages

CHEN Qiuyuan1, ZHAO Shuaibing1, LIANG He1, LIU Ye1, CUI Yanni1, PENG Ting1,2, ZHAO Quanzhi1,2, ZHANG Jing1,2,   

  1. 1 College of Agronomy,Henan Agricultural University,Key Laboratory of Rice Biology in Henan Province, Zhengzhou 450046,China
    2 Henan Agricultural University,Rice Engineering Laboratory in Henan Province,Zhengzhou 450046,China
  • Received:2022-06-04 Published:2022-10-28
  • Contact: ZHANG Jing

Abstract:

Tillering stage and jointing—booting stage are important for the formation of panicle number and spikelets per panicle of rice,respectively.Nitrogen application affects the formation of panicle number and spikelet per panicle.Bacteria involve in soil nitrogen cycle.Two high-yield rice varieties,Y Liangyou 900 and Zaofengyou 69,were used to study the difference of soil bacterial number and community structure between tillering stage and jointing—booting stage,and the relationship between them and soil nitrogen,rice yield under two application ratios of nitrogen fertilizer(7:3 and 6:4 application ratios of basic tiller fertilizer to panicle-spikelet fertilizer).The results showed that there were significant differences in the structures of dominant bacterial groups in paddy soil between the tillering stage and jointing—booting stage,which were mainly Proteobacteria,Bacteroidetes,Chloroflexi and Acidobacteria.The relative abundance of Chloroflexi at the tillering stage was 6.16 percent points higher than that at the jointing—booting stage.The relative abundance of Acidobacteria at the tillering stage was 2.65 percent points higher than that at the jointing—booting stage.The relative abundance of Proteobacteria at the jointing—booting stage was 0.69 percent points higher than that at the tilling stage.The relative abundance of Bacteroidetes at the jointing—booting stage was 1.09 percent points higher than that at the tillering stage.The results of correlation analysis showed that rice yield was significantly negatively correlated with the number of soil bacteria at the tillering stage,but significantly positively correlated with the number of bacteria and total nitrogen content in the soil at the jointing—booting stage.There was a significant positive correlation between the number of effective panicles and the number of soil bacteria at the tillering stage.The number of spikelets per panicle was significantly positively correlated with the ammonia oxidation potential at the tillering stage and the jointing—booting stage.Redundancy analysis(RDA)showed that the bacterial community structures were affected by many factors.The contents of soil ammonium nitrogen and the ammonia oxidation potential were the main factors affecting the bacterial community structures at the tillering stage and the jointing—booting stage,respectively.The function prediction of FAPROTAX further indicated that the denitrification in the 7:3 treatment at the tillering stage was enhanced,especially in the soil of Y Liangyou 900.Therefore,increasing the number of soil bacteria at the tillering stage could enhance the number of effective panicles.Ammonia oxidation involved by soil bacteria at the jointing—booting stage can promote the increase of spikelets per panicle in rice.For the high-yielding rice varieties,Y Liangyou 900 and Zaofengyou 69 under different nitrogen application ratios,the formation of yield,effective panicle number and spikelets per panicle is closely related to soil bacterial number,community composition and ecological function.

Key words: Paddy soil, 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, Bacterial community structure, Yield, Yield components, Growth stage

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CHEN Qiuyuan, ZHAO Shuaibing, LIANG He, LIU Ye, CUI Yanni, PENG Ting, ZHAO Quanzhi, ZHANG Jing. Soil Bacterial Community Characteristics and Ecological Function Prediction at Different Rice Growth Stages[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2022, 37(5): 140-149. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193000.

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