Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (4): 166-174. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20195448

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Effects of Nighttime Warming and Silicon Application on the Coupling Process of CH4 and N2O Double Reduction in Paddy Fields

TENG Zhaojun1,2, XIE Qing3, CHEN Han1,2, ZHANG Yaohong1, , LOU Yunsheng1, CAI Yuanfeng2, JIA Zhongjun2   

  1. 1 School of Ecology and Applied Meteorology,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044,China
    2 State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture,Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
    3 China Meteorological Administration Training Centre Hunan Branch,Changsha 410125, China
  • Received:2024-12-19 Published:2025-08-28

Abstract:

To study the effect of silicon fertilizer on the coupled process of methane (CH4) anaerobic oxidation and nitrous oxide (N2O) reduction in warming paddy fields,it could provide scientific evidence for exploring new ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in paddy fields.Four field treatments were set up,including no silicon application at ambient nighttime temperature (CK),no silicon application at nighttime warming (NW),silicon application at ambient nighttime temperature (Si),and silicon application at nighttime warming (NW+Si).Surface soils were collected of above-mentioned treatments,and were conducted anaerobic cultivation under different gas (13CH4,13CH4+N2O,N2O) addition conditions.Using isotope labeling method combined with quantitative PCR technology,it aimed to study the effect of warming and silicon application on the CH4 anaerobic oxidation driven by N2O reduction in paddy fields.The CH4 oxidation rate driven by N2O reduction in NW paddy fields was 3.99 nmol/(g·d),which was not significantly different from that in CK paddy fields;the CH4 oxidation rate in Si paddy fields was only 1.90 nmol/(g·d),significantly lower than that in CK and NW+Si paddy fields.This indicated that silicon application had an inhibitory effect on the coupling process of CH4 anaerobic oxidation and N2O reduction in paddy fields at ambient temperature,while nighttime warming had no significant effect on this process.Under the addition of 13CH4+N2O treatment,the number of mcrA genes in four paddy fields reached 3.53×107-8.19×107 copies/g,which was 24%-35% higher than that in the 13CH4 treatment.However,there was no difference in the anaerobic pmoA gene between these two treatments,indicating that the anaerobic oxidizing archaea M.nitroreducens might directly participate in the coupling process of 13CH4 oxidation and N2O reduction.The copy number of nosZ Ⅱ gene was significantly positively correlated with CH4 oxidation rate driven by N2O reduction,indicating that nosZ Ⅱ microorganisms might play an important role in this CH4 oxidation process.Unlike paddy fields at ambient temperature,silicon application had no inhibitory effect on the coupled process of CH4 anaerobic oxidation and N2O reduction in paddy fields with nighttime warming.The CH4 anaerobic oxidating archaea M.nitroreducens and nosZ Ⅱtype N2O reducing bacteria may be involved in this coupling process.

Key words: Paddy fields, Warming, Silicom application, CH4, N2O, mcrA gene, nosZ gene, Coupling effect

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TENG Zhaojun, XIE Qing, CHEN Han, ZHANG Yaohong, LOU Yunsheng, CAI Yuanfeng, JIA Zhongjun. Effects of Nighttime Warming and Silicon Application on the Coupling Process of CH4 and N2O Double Reduction in Paddy Fields[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2025, 40(4): 166-174. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20195448.

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