Abstract:
Objective To investigate the effects of planting two season crops after tobacco in winter idle lands on the microbial community structure of tobacco-planting soil in the Jinsha River basin.
Methods A field experiment was conducted in Qiaojia tobacco-growing area, Yunnan, with five treatments: local conventional planting mode with only flue-cured tobacco throughout the year as control (CK), and flue-cured tobacco-corn-broad bean (B1), flue-cured tobacco-corn-green manure (B2), flue-cured tobacco-corn-/rapeseed (B3), and flue-cured tobacco-corn-pea (B4). Soil physicochemical properties, enzyme activities and soil microbial community were measured after the harvest of third crop for two consecutive years.
Results Compared with CK treatment, the three-cropping treatments (B1-B4) significantly increased urease and sucrase activities after harvest. Bacteria Shannon and Simpson indices in three-cropping treatments were significantly higher than CK, with B2 significantly increasing by 5.03% and 0.30%, respectively; fungal Shannon indices in three-cropping treatments was significantly higher than CK, with B4 significantly increasing by 10.03%; however, fungal Simpson indices showed no no significant difference. The fungal Chao1 index in B1 increased by 2.12% compared with CK; At the genus level, the relative abundance of beneficial bacteria such as Candidatus_Udaeobacter, Sphingomonas, Bryobacter and Mortierella in three cropping treatment increased to varying degrees, while t pathogenic genera such as Fusarium and Alternaria decreased to a certain extent, and B3 treatment showed better performance. RDA showed that soil pH and hydrolyzed nitrogen were the main driving factors affecting soil bacterial community structure , and available potassium and organic matter were the main driving factors affecting soil fungal community structure.
Conclusion The annual three-cropping system in the Jinsha River basin improved soil quality. The flue-cured tobacco-corn-green manure treatment had the best positive effects on soil nutrients, enzyme activities and soil microbial diversity. The flue-cured tobacco-corn-rapeseed treatment increased beneficial microbial genera and reduced pathogenic genera , optimizing the soil microbial community structure.