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. 2019 Aug 13;9:11776. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-48207-z

Table 3.

Soil microbial community composition as impacted by long-term manure and fertilizer treatments for 0–7.5 cm depth at soybean planting (P).

Treatments G− G+ Anaerobe Actinom AMF Fungi Eukaryote
P 1MAP P 1MAP P 1MAP P 1MAP P 1MAP P 1MAP P 1MAP
------------------------% ------------------------
LM†† 45.55ns 47.91b 15.38ns 22.30ns 1.79b 2.85ns 16.86ba 11.86b 3.21c 3.36bc 5.31ns 4.18ns 11.91ns 6.44b
MM 45.35 50.54b 16.34 19.65 3.44a 1.66 15.97bc 12.54ba 4.01ba 5.00ba 5.51 6.29 9.39 4.34b
HM 45.73 51.36b 17.44 19.13 3.12ba 2.04 13.67c 12.77ba 4.15a 5.72a 4.93 5.41 10.97 3.59b
MF 42.68 44.77b 17.61 16.86 3.92a 1.23 18.18ba 16.25a 3.39c 3.41bac 5.38 4.46 8.84 13.04a
HF 41.32 48.63b 23.08 18.98 3.89a 1.52 18.31ba 15.65ba 3.49bc 3.92bac 2.72 4.92 7.20 6.38b
CK 45.46 70.85a 15.54 9.80 3.36a 1.94 18.84a 7.73c 3.60bac 1.70c 5.31 2.89 7.89 5.09b
Analysis of Variance (P > F)
Treatment 0.9 0.001 0.06 0.07 0.05 0.3 0.009 0.006 0.04 0.04 0.2 0.07 0.3 0.004
M vs. F 0.3 0.3 0.06 0.4 0.06 0.07 0.01 0.009 0.02 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.09 0.03

Mean values followed by different lower letters between each treatment within each sampling time represent significant differences due to manure and inorganic fertilizer application at P < 0.05. ††LM, low manure rate based on recommended phosphorus rate; MM, medium manure rate based on recommended nitrogen rate; HM, high manure rate based on double of the recommended nitrogen rate; MF, recommended fertilizer; HF, high fertilizer; and CK, control with no manure application. ns, no significant.