Difference between tea polyphenols and low-molecular-weight organic acids in effect of mobilizing soil mineral elmenets
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    Experiments were carried out using extractants prepared out of deionized water with tea polyphenols (TPs, including tea extracts, catechin and epigallocatechin gallate) and low-molecular-weight organic acids (LMWOAs, including oxalic acid, citrate acid and malic acid) 5 mmol L-1 each in concentration, separately, to extract 3 types of acid soil (Albic Fe-accumuli-Stagnic Anthrosols, Typic Haplic-Perudic Argosols and Dystric Purpli-Udic Cambosols) for comparison between the two groups of extractants in effect of mobilizing soil mineral elements in the soils. Results show that the effects of TPs mobilizing soil Si, Al and Fe were higher in Dystric Purpli-Udic Cambosols than in Albic Fe-accumuli-Stagnic Anthrosols and Typic Haplic-Perudic Argosols, the three organic LMWOAs differed in the effect, displaying an order of oxalic acid > citric acid > malic acid, and their effects were more significant than TPs’ in the Albic Fe-accumuli-Stagnic Anthrosols and in the Typic Haplic-Perudic Argosols, but not in the Dystric Purpli-Udic Cambosols, where TPs were higher than malic acid in the effect (especially in effect of mobilizing Si, TPs were even higher than all the LMWOAs), which demonstrates that TPs really play an important role in desilicating primitive soil through complexing action and proton effect, and hence predicts that tea cultivation may be conducive to the evolution of the soils into zonal soils; The effects of TPs and LMWOAs were more significant on Al than on that Si and Fe in all the three soils, and moreover, mobilization of Si, Al and Fe occurred simultaneously, which indicates that TPs and LMWOAs may get complexed more efficiently with Al, thus lowering its toxicity, but on the other hand, increasing its mobility and facilitating its entrance into water body and the environment. In terms of effect mobilizing soil base ions, in case of Ca, malic acid was higher than TPs; in the case of Mg and K, LMWOAs were higher than TPs; and in the case of Na, tea extracts ranked first, and were followed by citric acid and then malic acid, and in Albic Fe-accumuli-Stagnic Anthrosols, TPs were higher than LMWOAs. The effects of LMWOAs and TPs mobilizing soil base cations, especially Ca, K and Na, were the highest in Albic Fe-accumuli-Stagnic Anthrosols, and the three base cations though followed an order of Ca > Mg > K in amount mobilized, they were being mobilized simultaneously. So the use of Albic Fe-accumuli-Stagnic Anthrosols for tea cultivation would promote mobilization and migration of Ca, K and Na, which would improve bioavailability of these base cations on the one hand and accelerate soil acidification on the other. It is, therefore, essential to further intensify systematic study of the effects of TPs on mobilization and migration Si, Al and Fe in primitive soils and the effects of conversion of Albic Fe-accumuli-Stagnic Anthrosols into tea gardens on mobilization and migration of base cations in the soil.

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He Gang, Yuan Dagang, Zhao Yan, Luo Qiang, Zhang Dongpo, Wang Changquan. Difference between tea polyphenols and low-molecular-weight organic acids in effect of mobilizing soil mineral elmenets[J]. Acta Pedologica Sinica,2014,51(6):1378-1387.

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  • Received:January 14,2014
  • Revised:June 06,2014
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  • Online: August 26,2014
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