文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Hu, Zonghui ¹ ; Zhao, Qiu ² ; Zhang, Xinjian ² ; Ning, Xiaoguang ² ; Liang, Hao ¹ ; Cao, Weidong ³ ;

作者机构： 1.Hohai Univ, Coll Agr Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210098, Peoples R China

2.Tianjin Acad Agr Sci, Tianjin 300192, Peoples R China

3.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Agr Resources & Reg Planning, Key Lab Plant Nutr & Fertilizer, Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China

关键词： nitrogen use efficiency; North China Plain; spring maize; winter green manure; yield

期刊名称：PLANTS-BASEL （ 影响因子：4.5； 五年影响因子：4.8 ）

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年卷期： 2023 年 12 卷 2 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Planting a deep-rooted green manure (GM) (more than 1.0 m depth) greatly improves soil fertility and reduces the loss of nutrients. However, few studies have examined the response of soil nitrogen (N) distribution in the soil profile and subsoil N recovery to the long-term planting and incorporation of deep-rooted GM. Based on a 12-year (2009-2021) experiment of spring maize-winter GMs rotation in the North China Plain (NCP), this study investigated the effects of different GMs that were planted over the winter, including ryegrass (RrG, Lolium L.) (>1.0 m), Orychophragmus violaceus (OrV, Orychophragmus violaceus L.) (>0.8 m), and hairy vetch (VvR, Vicia villosa Roth.) (>1.0 m), on the spring maize yield, N distribution in the deep soil profile, N use efficiencies, functional gene abundances involving soil nitrification-denitrification processes and N2O production. Compared with the winter fallow, the maize yield significantly increased by 11.6% after 10 years of green manuring, and water storage in 0-200 cm soil profile significantly increased by 5.0-17.1% at maize seedling stage. The total N content in the soil layer at 0-90 cm increased by 15.8-19.7%, while the nitrate content in the deep soil layer (80-120 cm) decreased by 17.8-39.6%. Planting GM significantly increased the N recovery rate (10.4-32.7%) and fertilizer N partial productivity (4.6-13.3%). Additionally, the topsoil N functional genes (ammonia-oxidizing archaea amoA, ammonia-oxidizing bacterial amoA, nirS, nirK) significantly decreased without increasing N2O production potential. These results indicated that long-term planting of the deep-rooted GM effectively reduce the accumulation of nitrates in the deep soil and improve the crop yield and N use efficiencies, demonstrating a great value in green manuring to improve the fertility of the soil, increase the crop yield, and reduce the risk of N loss in NCP.