Physical-chemical and microbiological changes in Cerrado Soil under differing sugarcane harvest management systems

BMC Microbiology

Alexandre S Rosado²  Raquel S Peixoto²  Jan Dirk van Elsas¹  Heitor Luiz C Coutinho⁴  Fabiano C Balieiro⁴  Deborah Catharine A Leite⁴  Marisa C Piccolo³  Caio TCC Rachid² 

[1]Department of Microbial Ecology, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 CC, The Netherlands

[2]Laboratory of Molecular Microbial Ecology. Institute of Microbiology Paulo de Góes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Cidade Universitária), Rio de Janeiro, 21941-590, Brazil

[3]Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Centenário, 303, Piracicaba, 13416-000, Brazil

[4]Embrapa Solos, Rua Jardim Botânico, 1024, Rio de Janeiro, 22460-000, Brazil

关键词: Integrated analysis;    DGGE;    Nitrogen cycle;    Soil microbiology;    Sugarcane;    Cerrado;   

Others  :  1221794
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2180-12-170

 received in 2012-01-26, accepted in 2012-07-19,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Sugarcane cultivation plays an important role in Brazilian economy, and it is expanding fast, mainly due to the increasing demand for ethanol production. In order to understand the impact of sugarcane cultivation and management, we studied sugarcane under different management regimes (pre-harvest burn and mechanical, unburnt harvest, or green cane), next to a control treatment with native vegetation. The soil bacterial community structure (including an evaluation of the diversity of the ammonia oxidizing (amoA) and denitrifying (nirK) genes), greenhouse gas flow and several soil physicochemical properties were evaluated.

Results

Our results indicate that sugarcane cultivation in this region resulted in changes in several soil properties. Moreover, such changes are reflected in the soil microbiota. No significant influence of soil management on greenhouse gas fluxes was found. However, we did find a relationship between the biological changes and the dynamics of soil nutrients. In particular, the burnt cane and green cane treatments had distinct modifications. There were significant differences in the structure of the total bacterial, the ammonia oxidizing and the denitrifying bacterial communities, being that these groups responded differently to the changes in the soil. A combination of physical and chemical factors was correlated to the changes in the structures of the total bacterial communities of the soil. The changes in the structures of the functional groups follow a different pattern than the physicochemical variables. The latter might indicate a strong influence of interactions among different bacterial groups in the N cycle, emphasizing the importance of biological factors in the structuring of these communities.

Conclusion

Sugarcane land use significantly impacted the structure of total selected soil bacterial communities and ammonia oxidizing and denitrifier gene diversities in a Cerrado field site in Central Brazil. A high impact of land use was observed in soil under the common burnt cane management. The green cane soil also presented different profiles compared to the control soil, but to at a lesser degree.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Rachid et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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