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Influence of polyethylene terephthalate microplastic and biochar co-existence on paddy soil bacterial community structure and greenhouse gas emission

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Liying Chen, Liying Chen, Liying Chen, Liying Chen, Liying Chen, Lanfang Han Yuanyuan Feng, Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Liying Chen, Liying Chen, Zhifeng Yang, Lanfang Han Yanfang Feng, Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Liying Chen, Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Lanfang Han Detian Li, Detian Li, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Lanfang Han Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Lanfang Han Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Lanfang Han Liying Chen, Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Yanfang Feng, Liying Chen, Liying Chen, Liying Chen, Yanfang Feng, Detian Li, Detian Li, Yang Ji, Yang Ji, Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Zhifeng Yang, Yuanyuan Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Lanfang Han Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Lanfang Han Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Lanfang Han Lanfang Han Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yuanyuan Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Lanfang Han Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Yanfang Feng, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Zhifeng Yang, Lanfang Han

Summary

Researchers studied how polyethylene terephthalate microplastics and biochar, both common in agricultural soils, affect soil bacteria and greenhouse gas emissions during rice cultivation. They found that microplastics alone reduced bacterial diversity, but adding biochar alongside the microplastics partially restored microbial communities and altered gas emissions. The study suggests that biochar may help mitigate some of the negative soil health effects of microplastic contamination in paddy fields.

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Microplastic (MP) contamination is ubiquitous in agricultural soils. As a cost-effective soil amendment, biochar (BC) often coincides with MP exposure. However, little research has been conducted regarding the independent and combined effects of MPs and BC on the soil microbiome and NO/CH emissions. Therefore, in this study, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and wheat straw-derived BC were used, respectively, as representative MP and BC during an entire rice growth period. The high-throughput sequencing results showed that PET alone lowered bacterial diversity by 26.7%, while PET and BC co-existence did not induce apparent change. The relative abundances of some microbes (e.g., Cyanobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Bacteroidetes) that are associated with C and N cycling were changed at the phylum and class levels by all the treatments. In comparison with the control, the treatment of BC, PET, and their co-existence reduced the cumulative CH emissions by 50%, 53%, and 61%, respectively. The higher mitigation by BC + PET may be the result of higher soil Eh and a consequently lower methanogenesis functional gene mcrA abundance in the treated soils. In addition, BC and PET alone, as well as their combined treatment, increased the abundance of nitrification genes, enhancing the soil nitrification process. However, the relative contribution of the nitrification process to NO emission was possibly lower than that of denitrification, in which the NO reductase gene nosZ was found to be the primary gene regulating NO emissions. BC alone increased nosZ abundance by 42.3%, thereby showing the potential in suppressing NO emission. In contrast, when BC was co-added with PET, the nosZ abundance lowered possibly because of increased soil aeration, and thus its cumulative NO emission was 38% higher than the BC treatment. Overall, these results demonstrated that BC and PET function differently in soil ecosystems when they coexisted.

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