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Interactions between Sugarcane Leaf Return and Fertilizer Reduction in Soil Bacterial Network in Southern China Red Soil

This study examined how combinations of sugarcane leaf return and fertilizer reduction affect soil bacterial communities, finding that residue management significantly shapes microbial diversity and functional guilds involved in nutrient cycling.

2024 Microorganisms 1 citations
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Soil metabolomics: Deciphering underground metabolic webs in terrestrial ecosystems

Researchers reviewed how studying the chemical building blocks (metabolites) in soil can reveal how nutrients cycle through ecosystems and how soil health responds to pollution and climate stress. This approach helps scientists better understand the invisible underground networks that keep soils fertile and functioning.

2024 Eco-Environment & Health 24 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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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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Integrated microbiology and metabolomics analysis reveal plastic mulch film residue affects soil microorganisms and their metabolic functions

Researchers used high-throughput gene sequencing combined with metabolomics to study how plastic mulch film residues affect soil microorganisms and their metabolic functions. They found that mulch film residues significantly altered microbial community composition and disrupted key metabolic pathways in the soil. The study reveals that plastic agricultural film left in soil can interfere with the biological processes that keep soil ecosystems healthy.

2021 Journal of Hazardous Materials 235 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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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
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Vermicompost Alters Soil Microbial Communities and Decomposition but Increases Nitrate Leaching in Tropical Sugarcane

Researchers tested how vermicompost affects soil biodiversity, decomposition, and nitrogen loss in tropical sugarcane fields during a six-week field trial. While vermicompost shifted bacterial communities and accelerated decomposition, it unexpectedly increased nitrate leaching in clay soils during high rainfall. The study suggests that organic amendments like vermicompost need to be carefully timed with crop uptake to capture microbial benefits while minimizing nitrogen losses to the environment.

2026 Ecology and Evolution
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Microbes drive metabolism, community diversity, and interactions in response to microplastic-induced nutrient imbalance

Researchers investigated how conventional and biodegradable microplastics alter soil nutrient balances and the resulting effects on microbial metabolism, community diversity, and species interactions. The study found that microplastic-induced nutrient imbalances significantly influenced soil microbial processes, with different types of microplastics producing distinct effects on carbon and nitrogen cycling.

2023 The Science of The Total Environment 74 citations
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Characteristics of Rhizosphere Microbiome, Soil Chemical Properties, and Plant Biomass and Nutrients in Citrus reticulata cv. Shatangju Exposed to Increasing Soil Cu Levels

This study characterized rhizosphere microbiome composition, soil chemical properties, and plant biochemistry in relation to soil management practices, finding that treatment type drives distinct rhizosphere microbial communities with functional consequences for plant health.

2024 Plants
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Soil metagenomics reveals the effect of nitrogen on soil microbial communities and nitrogen-cycle functional genes in the rhizosphere of Panax ginseng

Researchers studied how different levels of nitrogen fertilizer affect the soil microbial communities around ginseng roots. They found that moderate nitrogen boosted beneficial microbes and improved ginseng yields, while excessive nitrogen decreased soil pH, reduced microbial diversity, and increased disease-causing organisms. The study highlights the importance of balanced fertilizer use for maintaining healthy soil ecosystems in agricultural settings.

2024 Frontiers in Plant Science 29 citations
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Rhizosphere microbial activities in response to combined effects of drought and microplastic

Researchers studied how combined drought stress and microplastic contamination affect rhizosphere microbial activities, finding that microplastics exacerbated drought-induced suppression of soil enzyme activities and altered microbial community structure around plant roots.

2024
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Metagenomics reveals the effect of long-term fertilization on carbon cycle in the maize rhizosphere

Metagenomics analysis of maize rhizosphere soil revealed that long-term chemical nitrogen fertilizer treatments increased abundance of genes regulating the reductive citrate cycle for carbon fixation, while straw return treatments increased carbon degradation gene abundance.

2023 Frontiers in Microbiology 19 citations
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Effect of Nitrogen Addition on Tiger Nut (Cyperus esculentus L.) Rhizosphere Microbial Diversity and Drive Factions of Rhizosphere Soil Multifunctionality in Sandy Farmland

Not relevant to microplastics — this study investigates how nitrogen fertilizer addition affects rhizosphere microbial diversity and soil multifunctionality in tiger nut crops grown in sandy farmland.

2024 Agronomy 3 citations
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Long-term inorganic fertilizer exposure disturbed functional traits and gut bacterial conditionally rare or abundant taxa in collembolan (Entomobrya proxima Folsom)

Researchers examined how long-term inorganic fertilizer application disturbed soil functional traits and gut bacterial communities of earthworms, finding that fertilizer-driven changes in soil chemistry altered earthworm gut microbiomes in ways that may affect soil ecosystem services.

2025 Soil Ecology Letters
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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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Integrating metabolomics and high-throughput sequencing to investigate the effects of tire wear particles on mung bean plants and soil microbial communities.

Tire wear particles at realistic concentrations (0.1-1.5% soil weight) inhibited mung bean growth, altered root metabolite profiles, and shifted soil microbial community structure, indicating that road-derived plastic contaminants can disrupt soil-plant systems in agricultural settings.

2024 Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
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Unearthing soil-plant-microbiota crosstalk: Looking back to move forward

This review examines the complex interactions between soil, plants, and microbiota, tracing the evolution of soil fertility assessment from crop performance metrics to modern microbiome-based approaches. Researchers emphasize that soil quality must be evaluated by combining physical, chemical, and biological parameters, and that understanding microbial community dynamics is essential for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem health.

2023 Frontiers in Plant Science 29 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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Sugarcane/soybean intercropping with reduced nitrogen addition promotes photosynthesized carbon sequestration in the soil

This paper is not directly about microplastics; it investigates how sugarcane-soybean intercropping with reduced nitrogen fertilizer improves carbon sequestration in agricultural soil by increasing root biomass and transferring photosynthesized carbon into stable soil carbon pools.

2023 Frontiers in Plant Science 11 citations
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Microbial fertilizer regulates C:N:P stoichiometry and alleviates phosphorus limitation in flue-cured tobacco planting soil

Researchers studied how adding microbial fertilizer to tobacco farmland affects the balance of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the soil, finding that phosphorus availability becomes the main limiting factor as the growing season progresses. Adding microbial fertilizer helped relieve this phosphorus limitation by shifting soil chemistry, offering a more sustainable approach to crop nutrition management.

2023 Scientific Reports 19 citations
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Responses of a soil-inhabiting collembolan (Entomobrya proxima Folsom) to organic fertilizer addition illustrated by functional traits and gut bacterial community

Researchers investigated how different concentrations of organic fertilizer affect the collembolan Entomobrya proxima at the level of functional traits and gut bacterial community composition. Organic fertilizer addition had multiple concentration-dependent effects on soil fauna, providing insights for optimizing sustainable agricultural management while maintaining soil animal functions.

2025 Frontiers in Microbiology 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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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