Inclusion of peanut in wheat–maize rotation increases wheat yield and net return and improves soil organic carbon pool by optimizing bacterial community

作     者：ZOU Xiao-xia HUANG Ming-ming LIU Yan SI Tong ZHANG Xiao-jun YU Xiao-na GUO Feng WAN Shu-bo ZOU Xiao-xia;HUANG Ming-ming;LIU Yan;SI Tong;ZHANG Xiao-jun;YU Xiao-na;GUO Feng;WAN Shu-bo

作者机构：Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Dryland Farming Technology/Shandong Peanut Industry Collaborative Innovation Center/College of AgronomyQingdao Agricultural UniversityQingdao 266109P.R.China Institute of Crop Germplasm ResourcesShandong Academy of Agricultural SciencesJinan 250100P.R.China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Agriculture》 (农业科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第22卷第11期

页      面：3430-3443页

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学科分类：09[农学] 0901[农学-作物学] 

基　　金：National Natural Science Foundation of China (42107376) the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System (CARS-13) 

主　　题：composite planting carbon sequestration labile carbon fraction bacterial community structure bacterial functions 

摘      要：Improving soil quality while achieving higher productivity is the major challenge in the agricultural industry. Wheat(Triticum aestivum L.)–maize(Zea mays L.)(W–M) rotation is the dominant planting pattern in the Huang-HuaiHai Plain and is important for food security in China. However, the soil quality is deteriorating due to the W–M rotation’s long-term, intensive, and continuous cultivation. Introducing legumes into the W–M rotation system may be an effective way to improve soil quality. In this study, we aimed to verify this hypothesis by exploring efficient planting systems(wheat–peanut(Arachis hypogaea L.)(W–P) rotation and wheat rotated with maize and peanut intercropping(W–M/P)) to achieve higher agricultural production in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain. Using traditional W–M rotation as the control, we evaluated crop productivity, net returns, soil microorganisms(SMs), and soil organic carbon(SOC) fractions for three consecutive years. The results indicated that wheat yields were significantly increased under W–P and W–M/P(382.5–579.0 and 179.8–513.1 kg ha-1, respectively) compared with W–M. W–P and W–M/P provided significantly higher net returns(58.2 and 70.4%, respectively) than W–M. W–M/P and W–M retained the SOC stock more efficiently than W–P, increasing by 25.46–31.03 and 14.47–27.64%, respectively, in the 0–20 cm soil layer. Compared with W–M, W–M/P improved labile carbon fractions;the sensitivity index of potentially mineralizable carbon, microbial biomass carbon(MBC), and dissolved organic carbon was 31.5, 96.5–157.2, and 17.8% in 20–40, 10–40, and 10–20 cm soil layers, respectively. The bacterial community composition and bacteria function were altered as per the soil depth and planting pattern. W–M/P and W–M exhibited similar bacterial community composition and function in 0–20 and 20–40 cm soil layers. Compared with W–P, a higher abundance of functional genes, namely, contains mobile elements and stress-tolerant, and a lower abundance of genes, namely,