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ArticleScientific reports2021

Co-application of a biosolids product and biochar to two coarse-textured pasture soils influenced microbial N cycling genes and potential for N leaching.

Sanjutha Shanmugam, Sasha N Jenkins, Bede S Mickan, Noraini Md Jaafar, Falko Mathes, Zakaria M Solaiman, Lynette K Abbott

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Sanjutha ShanmugamUWA School of Agriculture and Environment (M079), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia.
Sasha N JenkinsUWA School of Agriculture and Environment (M079), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia.
Bede S MickanUWA School of Agriculture and Environment (M079), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia.
Noraini Md JaafarUWA School of Agriculture and Environment (M079), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia.
Falko MathesUWA School of Agriculture and Environment (M079), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia.
Zakaria M SolaimanUWA School of Agriculture and Environment (M079), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia.
Lynette K AbbottUWA School of Agriculture and Environment (M079), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia. Lynette.Abbott@uwa.edu.au.
University of Western Australia · AUBarber-Nichols (United States) · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Co-application of biochar and biosolids to soil has potential to mitigate N leaching due to physical and chemical properties of biochar. Changes in N cycling pathways in soil induced by co-application of biological amendments could further mitigate N loss, but this is largely unexplored. The aim of this study was to determine whether co-application of a biochar and a modified biosolids product to three pasture soils differing in texture could alter the relative abundance of N cycling genes in soil sown with subterranean clover. The biosolids product contained lime and clay and increased subterranean clover shoot biomass in parallel with increases in soil pH and soil nitrate. Its co-application with biochar similarly increased plant growth and soil pH with a marked reduction in nitrate in two coarse textured soils but not in a clayey soil. While application of the biosolids product altered in silico predicted N cycling functional genes, there was no additional change when applied to soil in combination with biochar. This supports the conclusion that co-application of the biochar and biosolids product used here has potential to mitigate loss of N in coarse textured soils due to N adsoption by the biochar and independently of microbial N pathways.

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BiomassBiosolidsCharcoalGenes, MicrobialHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationNitratesPlantsSignal TransductionSoilbiocharBiosolidsCharcoalNitratesSoil

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PMID33441591
PMCPMC7807079
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