Responses of Microbial Community Composition, Diversity, and Stability To Pepper Cultivation in Degraded Vegetable Soils Under Reductive Soil Disinfestation and Biochar Amendment
摘要
Reductive soil disinfestation (RSD) and biochar amendment are effective in suppressing soil-borne pathogens. However, their long-term effects in field applications and impacts on microbial community stability remain poorly understood. In this investigation, we conducted a field experiment with four treatments: CK (without any amendment as the control); BA (biochar amendment); RSD-M (RSD with manure as carbon source); and RSD-MB (RSD with manure as carbon source plus biochar amendment). After 240-day of green pepper cultivation, both RSD-M and RSD-MB treatments maintained lower relative abundance of Fusarium, compared to the CK. After 240 days of green pepper cultivation, the Shannon and Chao1 indices of bacterial and fungal communities in the RSD-M and RSD-MB treatments were significantly lower compared to the CK (P < 0.05). Redundancy analysis identified soil dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N) contents as the most significant environmental factors influencing microbial communities (P < 0.01). Moreover, microbial co-occurrence network analysis revealed that the RSD-M and RSD-MB treatments exhibited higher network complexity. Cohesion analysis showed that the community stability under the RSD-MB treatment was significantly higher than that of the other treatments. Piecewise structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis indicated that soil DOC and NH4+-N contents influenced fungal diversity, which in turn affected microbial community stability (P < 0.05). The C/N ratio had a direct and significant impact on community stability (P < 0.05). RSD treatments induced distinct responses in bacterial and fungal communities, with bacteria showing higher resilience and fungi being more sensitive after 240-day of green pepper cultivation. Overall, the combination of RSD and biochar enhanced pathogen suppression and promoted greater microbial community stability, providing an effective strategy for soil remediation.