Organic Fertilizers Shape Soil Microbial Communities and Increase Soil Amino Acid Metabolites Content in a Blueberry Orchard

Sustainable Applications of Mushrooms in Soil Science: A Call for Pictorial and Drawn Articles

“…As macro-fungi, mushrooms have vital impacts on the soil, which include both positive (by improving many soil properties) and negative (when mushroom wastes cause environmental problem to soil), as reported by Elsakhawy et al (2022). Mushrooms have distinguished impacts on the soil when they apply as compost (forming from spent mushroom substrate as an organic fertilizer), which could increase soil microbial activity and the content of amino acid metabolites in the studied orchard (Tan et al 2022). The other applications of mushroom may include using as a bioindicator in polluted soils, like soil polluted with toxic elements (Gwenzi et al 2021;Karami et al 2021), heavy metals (Kokkoris et al 2019;Dowlati et al 2021), organic pollutants (Golovko et al 2022), radioactives/isotopes (Wang et al 2021;Melgar et al 2021;Andronikov et al 2022;Ernst et al 2022;Ronda et al 2022), as well as for health risk indices (El-Ramady et al 2021;Keskin et al 2021).…”

Long-term cultivation drives dynamic changes in the rhizosphere microbial community of blueberry

“…However, as an important driver of microbial community structure, we observed that bacterial and fungal communities were affected to different extents. Some dominant taxa, Acidobacteria and Proteobacteria, were negatively correlated with pH (Tan et al, 2022), while Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Chloroflexi were positively correlated with pH (Ni et al, 2021), which contributed to bacteria being more sensitive to soil pH fluctuations than fungi. Studies have shown that soil pH drives changes in bacterial rather than fungal communities, as the majority of bacteria exhibit relatively narrow growth tolerance compared to fungi (Ni et al, 2021).…”

“…The soil organic matter (SOM) content was determined using the potassium dichromate oxidation method (Yu et al, 2020). Soil total nitrogen (TN) and total carbon (TC) content were determined using an automatic elemental analyzer (PerkinElmer 2400 Series II, United States; Tan et al, 2022). Soil nitrate-nitrogen (NO 3 − -N) and ammoniumnitrogen (NH 4 + -N) were extracted with 2 M KCl and determined using an UV spectrophotometer (Shimadzu UVmini-1285, Japan; Huang et al, 2019).…”

“…However, the impact of dynamic environmental factors on the complex interactions of plant-associated microbiomes during long-term cultivation may be limited or underestimated. Recent studies have mainly focused on determining the relevance of edaphic factors that drive the variation in blueberry microbial communities, such as pH, available potassium content, and phosphorus gradients (Yurgel et al, 2017;Pantigoso et al, 2018;Tan et al, 2022). To this end, we sought to explore the dynamic changes in the blueberry rhizosphere bacterial and fungal communities under long-term cultivation and the correlation between edaphic factors and plant age in shaping their community structure.…”

Perspectives on Converting Keratin-Containing Wastes Into Biofertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture

“…The application of fertilizers and other chemicals such as pesticides will contaminate soil and groundwater, giving rise to threats to the environment (Humbert et al, 2016 ; Vejan et al, 2021 ; Martins-Gomes et al, 2022 ). Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the environmental pressure and recover the soil nutrient using suitable strategies (Zhuang et al, 2019 ; Tan et al, 2022 ). Sustainable agriculture was proposed to provide high-quality food for human beings without damaging the natural environment ( Figure 1 ).…”