Effect of lime application on microbial community in acidic tea orchard soilsin comparison with those in wasteland and forest soils
Dong Xue , Xiangdong Huang , Huaiying Yao , Changyong Huang
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Received October 25, 2009,Revised March 18, 2010, Accepted , Available online
Volume 22,2010,Pages 1253-1260
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Lime application is a conventional technology to control acidification in tea orchard soils. We investigated the e ect of lime
application on soil microbial community diversity in the soils of three tea orchards, wasteland and forest. The BIOLOG data showed
that both the average well color development of all carbon sources and the functional diversity index increased with the liming rate in
the tea orchards and the forest, but decreased in the wasteland. The phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis showed that the structural
diversity index of soil microbial community increased with the liming rate in all the tea orchards, the wasteland and the forest. Lime
application also increased the soil-bacterial PLFA content in all the soils. Soil fungal and actinomycete PLFAs in the tea orchards
showed an increasing trend from 0 to 3.2 g CaCO3/kg application and then a decreasing trend from 3.2 to 6.4 g CaCO3/kg application.
The principal component analysis of BIOLOG and PLFA data suggested that lime application had a significant e ect on soil microbial
community structure, and land use had a greater e ect on soil microbial community structure compared to lime application.
