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Effects of Long-Term Mineral Fertilizer Application on Soil Nutrients, Yield, and Fungal Community Composition

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Application of mineral fertilizers is an effective way to increase crop yield. It is unclear whether their long-term application can effectively improve soil fungal community composition. In this study, we investigated soil nutrient properties, yield, and soil fungi community composition using ITS rRNA sequencing based on a 38-year wheat–maize rotation field experiment on the Gleyic Cambisols without calcium carbonates. The results showed that long-term application of mineral fertilizer improves soil total nitrogen, organic carbon, available phosphorus and potassium, yield, and fungal community abundance. The predominant fungi divisions changed from Zygomycota in the control check treatment to Basidiomycota and Ascomycota in the mineral fertilizer treatments. Bray-Curtis distances revealed that the fungi varieties were distinctly different among treatments. The fungal community composition was different between nitrogen fertilizer application alone and in combination with potassium fertilizer. The results suggested that the different levels of potassium fertilizer input between nitrogen fertilizer application alone and in combination with potassium might result in different fungal community patterns in the wheat–maize rotation system on the Gleyic Cambisols without calcium carbonates in the North China Plain.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (numbers 2017YFD0301002 and 2018YFD0300604), the High-level Personnel Scientific Research Funds of Qingdao Agricultural University (number 1118008), and the Shandong Province modern agricultural industry technology system construction funds (number SDAIT-02-06).

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Yanling Chen, Cao, Y. & Liu, S. Effects of Long-Term Mineral Fertilizer Application on Soil Nutrients, Yield, and Fungal Community Composition. Eurasian Soil Sc. 54, 597–604 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229321040049

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