Effect of Stoichiometric Ratio of Soil Nutrients on Mineralization and Priming Effect of Glucose in Paddy Soil
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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41430860 and 41371304), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2016JJ3132) and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB15020401)

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    【Objective】The turnover of liable organic carbon (C) sources in soil is a key component of the cycle of soil carbon. Liable C sources (i.e. glucose), derived from C deposition in rhizosphere and other extraneous C inputs, are important sources of the C pool in the soil. Therefore, studying the turnover of liable C sources as affected by stoichiometric ratio of soil nutrients may help reveal mechanisms of the eco-stoichiometric regulation of the turnover of extraneous C in paddy soil. 【Method】In this study, an in-lab incubation experiment was conducted using 13C-glucose as extraneous organic C typical in paddy soil to explore quantitatively dynamics of decompositing mineralization and priming effect of glucose as affected by C/N/P/S stoichiometric ratio. 【Result】Results show that glucose was rapidly mineralized in the paddy soil so that 65.5% to 74.6% of the added glucose-C was mineralized after 60 d of incubation. The addition of nutrient elements not only increased glucose mineralization rate, but also raised the proportion of glucose-C available to soil microbes from 58% to 65%, thus accelerating glucose turnover rate in the soil. The amount of nutrient elements added was found significantly and positively related to both proportion of the microbe-available C pool in and mineralization rate (R 2 = 0.63, p<0.05; R 2= 0.83, p< 0.05) of glucose C, which suggests that the addition of nutrient elements promoted the microbial utilization of extraneous C in the soil, and stoichiometric ratio of the nutrient elements regulated the dynamic of glucose mineralization. With the addition of glucose-C, the decomposition of the soil native organic matter was inhibited, and the cumulative negative priming effect was -370 to -570 mg kg-1. The higher the amount of nutrient elements added, the stronger the negative priming effect observed, and the two were obviously in negative correlation (R 2 = 0.66, p< 0.05), indicating that the soil microbes preferentially utilize the added glucose-C to sustain their growth. The supply of N, P and S reduced the dependence of microbes on nutrient elements in the soil native organic matter, and thereby slow down the decomposition of soil organic matter. 【Conclusion】Mineralization of liable C in paddy soil is affected by C/N/P/S stoichiometric ratio. The addition of a high ratio of nutrient elements promotes mineralization of liable C in paddy soil, inhibits decomposition of native soil organic matter, and intensify negative priming effect. All the findings in this study demonstrate that application of liable C and fertilizers to paddy soils could effectively inhibit decomposition of soil native organic matter, and stimulate accumulation of soil organic matter, thus building up soil fertility.

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TANG Zhenzhu, ZHU Zhenke, SHEN Bingjie, HU Yajun, WANG Juan, PANG Jing, TONG Chengli, GE Tida, WU Jinshui. Effect of Stoichiometric Ratio of Soil Nutrients on Mineralization and Priming Effect of Glucose in Paddy Soil[J]. Acta Pedologica Sinica,2017,54(1):246-254.

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  • Received:February 07,2016
  • Revised:September 09,2016
  • Adopted:September 18,2016
  • Online: October 17,2016
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