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Acta Prataculturae Sinica ›› 2009, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (4): 125-130.

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Effects of different conservation tillage on amount and distribution of soil ammonifying bacteria, nitrobacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria

ZHAO You-yi1,2, CAI Li-qun1, WANG Jing1, ZHANG Ren-zhi1   

  1. 1.Resources and Environment Faculty of Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China;
    2.Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou 730070, China
  • Received:2009-02-17 Online:2009-08-20 Published:2009-08-20

Abstract: Field experiments were conducted in Dingxi, in the western Loess Plateau, on the effects of tillage on soil ammonifying bacteria, nitrobacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria under a rotation system with spring wheat and pea. The treatments were conventional tillage and three conservation agriculture patterns: Conventional tillage (T), conventional tillage with stubble incorporation (TS), no till with no straw cover (NT), no till with straw cover (NTS) The amount of soil ammonifying bacteria, nitrobacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria from high to low was NTS, TS, NT, and T in the 0-5, 5-10, and 10-30 cm depths of soil under two rotation fields. The amounts of soil ammonifying bacteria in NTS at these three depths was 76.21%,146.92%,67.82% respectively, higher than that in NT. Soil nitrobacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria initially increased, then decreased in all treatments in spring wheat fields. However, soil nitrogen-fixing bacteria decreased with soil depth, while nitrobacteria initially increased, then decreased in pea fields. Ammonifying bacteria decreased with soil depth in NTS and TS, but initially increased, then decreased in NT and T.

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