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Effects of tobacco plant residue return on rhizosphere soil microbial community

Researchers found that returning tobacco crop residues to soil significantly increased the diversity and complexity of soil microbial communities, boosting beneficial bacteria like Sphingomonas. This suggests that recycling crop residues is a practical strategy for improving soil health and agricultural ecosystem functioning.

2022 Annals of Microbiology 9 citations
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Integrating the Soil Microbiota and Metabolome Reveals the Mechanism through Which Controlled Release Fertilizer Affects Sugarcane Growth

Researchers used soil microbial community profiling and metabolomics to investigate how controlled-release fertilizer application rates affect sugarcane growth. The study found that different fertilizer rates significantly influenced root-associated microbial communities and soil metabolite patterns, providing insights into optimizing fertilizer use for improved crop production.

2023 International Journal of Molecular Sciences 11 citations
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Types of vegetables shape composition, diversity, and co-occurrence networks of soil bacteria and fungi in karst areas of southwest China

Researchers examined how different vegetable crops influence the composition of soil bacteria and fungi in karst landscapes of southwest China. They found that the type of vegetable grown significantly shaped the diversity and co-occurrence patterns of soil microbial communities. The findings provide a foundation for understanding how agricultural practices affect soil health in ecologically fragile karst environments.

2023 BMC Microbiology 16 citations
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Long-Term Compost Amendment Changes Interactions and Specialization in the Soil Bacterial Community, Increasing the Presence of Beneficial N-Cycling Genes in the Soil

Researchers found that long-term compost amendment significantly altered soil bacterial community structure and functional specialization, increasing microbial network complexity and promoting functional guilds associated with organic matter decomposition compared to non-amended soils.

2022 Agronomy 20 citations
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Different Distribution of Core Microbiota in Upper Soil Layer in Two Places of North China Plain

Researchers compared the composition and distribution of core soil microbiota in upper soil layers at two locations on the North China Plain, examining how habitat and dominant plant species shape bacterial community structure relevant to nutrient cycling and carbon storage. The study found meaningful differences in microbial community composition between the two sites, reflecting local environmental influences.

2022 The Open Microbiology Journal 2 citations
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Shifts in maize microbial communities and networks are correlated with the soil soil chemical property under different fertilization regimes

A corn field experiment compared how different fertilizers — chemical versus organic — shaped soil microbial communities and their interaction networks. Organic fertilizers altered both the diversity and connections between soil microbes, which has implications for soil health and agricultural sustainability.

2023 Research Square (Research Square)
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Structural and Functional Characteristics of Soil Microbial Communities in Forest–Wetland Ecotones: A Case Study of the Lesser Khingan Mountains

Researchers examined soil microbial communities across a forest-to-wetland gradient in China's Lesser Khingan Mountains, comparing mixed forest, conifer forest, wetland edge, and natural wetland. Natural wetland soils harbored the most distinct bacterial communities, driven primarily by high organic matter, nitrogen, and phosphorus content.

2025 Life 2 citations
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Root carbon inputs outweigh litter in shaping grassland soil microbiomes and ecosystem multifunctionality

Researchers analyzed 13 years of field data from a semi-arid grassland and found that carbon inputs from plant roots matter more than leaf litter in sustaining soil microbial diversity and overall ecosystem health. Removing plants caused greater microbial and functional declines than removing surface litter, underscoring the hidden importance of below-ground carbon in maintaining healthy soils.

2024 npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 28 citations
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Linking bacterial and fungal assemblages to soil nutrient cycling within different aggregate sizes in agroecosystem

Researchers investigated how bacterial and fungal microbial assemblages within four different soil aggregate sizes correlate with nutrient cycling in rice fields in Southern China, finding that deterministic processes govern bacteria while stochastic processes govern fungi, and that macroaggregates showed stronger regulation of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling by soil properties than microaggregates.

2022 Frontiers in Microbiology 9 citations
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Effects of Film Mulching on Soil Microbial Diversity and Community Structure in the Maize Root Zone under Drip Irrigation in Northwest China

A field study in Northwest China examined how different plastic film mulching practices affected soil microbial diversity and community structure in drip-irrigated maize fields across the growing season.

2024 Agronomy 6 citations
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How Organic Mulching Influences the Soil Bacterial Community Structure and Function in Urban Forests

Researchers tested how different types of organic mulch affect the bacterial communities in urban forest soils. They found that wood chips and compost changed the soil's chemical properties and shifted the types of bacteria present, particularly those involved in carbon and nitrogen cycling. The study suggests that organic mulching could be a practical tool for improving the microbial health of urban soils.

2024 Microorganisms 4 citations
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Research progress on the effects of different fertilizers on soil microorganisms

This review examines how different fertilizer types — chemical, organic, and compound — affect soil microbial communities, summarizing research on how fertilizer-induced changes in microbial diversity and function influence nutrient cycling and crop yield.

2025 BIO Web of Conferences
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The application of biochar and organic fertilizer substitution regulates the diversities of habitat specialist bacterial communities within soil aggregates in proso millet farmland

Researchers conducted a field experiment on millet farmland to study how biochar and organic fertilizer combinations affect soil bacterial communities, finding that combining both improved soil nutrients and bacterial diversity more than either treatment alone — supporting healthier, more resilient farming soils.

2025 Biochar 13 citations
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Collaborative Changes between Soil Fauna and Urbanization Gradients in Guangzhou’s Remnant Forests

Researchers investigated how soil fauna communities change along urbanization gradients in Guangzhou, finding that urbanization significantly reduces soil biodiversity and alters functional group composition, with implications for ecosystem services.

2024 Urban Science
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Linking rhizospheric microbiota and metabolite interactions with harvested aboveground carbon and soil carbon of lakeshore reed wetlands in a subtropical region

Researchers studied how soil microorganisms and plant-produced chemicals in wetland reed rhizospheres interact to influence carbon storage in lakeside wetlands. Understanding these relationships helps protect wetlands as important carbon sinks in the face of climate change.

2023 Research Square (Research Square) 1 citations
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Comparison of the response of microbial communities to region and rootstock disease differences in tobacco soils of southwestern China

This study compared microbial communities in tobacco-growing soils across different regions of southwestern China to understand how regional differences and rootstock diseases affect soil microbiomes. The findings provide insight into the interactions between microbial communities, geographic variation, and plant disease occurrence. The results have implications for maintaining soil health and improving tobacco crop yield and quality.

2023 Frontiers in Microbiology 11 citations
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Application of Organic Fertilizer Changes the Rhizosphere Microbial Communities of a Gramineous Grass on Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Researchers examined how organic fertilizer application altered rhizosphere microbial communities in a gramineous grass, finding significant shifts in bacterial diversity and composition that may influence nutrient cycling and soil health in grassland ecosystems.

2022 Microorganisms 26 citations
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Biochar Mitigates the Negative Effects of Microplastics on Sugarcane Growth by Altering Soil Nutrients and Microbial Community Structure and Function

Microplastic contamination in sugarcane-growing soils in China reduces crop biomass and degrades soil nutrients and microbial diversity. Adding biochar to microplastic-polluted soil helped offset these harms — restoring sugarcane growth, stabilizing soil pH, and improving bacterial community richness. The findings suggest biochar is a practical tool for rehabilitating agricultural land affected by plastic pollution.

2023 Plants 14 citations
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Addition of High-Quality Plant Residue Alters Microbial Keystone Taxa and Network Complexity and Increases Soil Phosphorus (P) Availability

Researchers found that adding high-quality plant residues like pumpkin stems to acidic soil boosted available phosphorus by nearly 64 percent and stimulated beneficial microbial communities. The improvement was linked to increased populations of key bacterial species and stronger cooperative interactions among soil microbes. The study suggests that the type and quality of plant material added to soil plays a critical role in shaping microbial networks that drive nutrient cycling.

2024 Agronomy 4 citations
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Inter-phylum negative interactions affect soil bacterial community dynamics and functions during soybean development under long-term nitrogen fertilization

Researchers found that the growth stage of soybean plants had a stronger influence on soil bacterial communities than 16 years of nitrogen fertilization, while fertilization more strongly shaped nitrogen-processing gene activity. Negative interactions between certain bacterial groups helped explain how soil microbial communities change over a crop's growing season.

2021 Stress Biology 15 citations
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Short‐term effects of mineral and combined mineral‐organic fertilization in soil microbial communities

A one-year fertilization trial in a Qinghai-Tibet Plateau greenhouse found that both mineral and combined mineral-organic fertilization increased bacterial richness and decreased fungal diversity compared to unfertilized soil, with available phosphorus as the primary driver of microbial community structure changes.

2023 Soil Use and Management 3 citations
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Biochar Mitigates the Negative Effects of Microplastics on Sugarcane Growth by Changing Soil Nutrients and Microbial Community Structure and Function

Researchers investigated the effects of microplastics with and without biochar amendment on sugarcane growth, soil biochemical properties, and microbial community structure in red soil using a potted experiment, finding that microplastics alone reduced dry biomass, soil pH, and nitrogen and phosphorus contents and decreased bacterial diversity. Biochar addition mitigated the negative effects of microplastics by improving soil nutrients and reshaping microbial community structure and function.

2023 Preprints.org 4 citations
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Impact of clomazone on bacterial communities in two soils

This study examined how the herbicide clomazone affects soil bacterial community structure and network complexity. Herbicide use is common in agriculture alongside plastic mulch film application, and combined exposure to both agrochemicals and microplastics may compound impacts on soil microbial communities.

2023 Frontiers in Microbiology 2 citations
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Maize root-soil microbial interactions and their effects on soil health and yield

Researchers examined interactions between maize roots and soil microbial communities, investigating how root-microbe dynamics influence soil health indicators and crop yield. The study found specific rhizosphere microbial associations that promote nutrient availability and plant productivity.

2024 TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY