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

Table 4.

Soil PLFA community composition as impacted by long-term manure and fertilizer treatments for 0–7.5 cm depth at soybean planting (P) and one month after planting (1MAP).

Treatments	G+/G− Bacteria		Total Bacteria		Total Fungi		Bacteria/Fungi Ratio		Total PLFA Biomass
	P	1MAP	P	1MAP	P	1MAP	P	1MAP	P	1MAP
			------------------------% mol------------------------						-nmol gr ^-1 soil-
LM^††	0.34^ns†	0.47^ns	79.58^ns	84.91^b	8.51^ns	7.53^b	9.42^b	12.74^b	79.91^ns	87.07^ns
MM	0.36	0.39	81.09	84.37^b	9.53	11.29^a	9.09^b	7.48^b	104.2	78.21
HM	0.38	0.37	79.96	85.29^b	9.07	11.12^a	8.81^b	7.83^b	117.9	94.75
MF	0.41	0.38	82.39	79.10^c	8.77	7.87^b	9.42^b	10.34^b	90.58	56.26
HF	0.56	0.39	86.6	84.79^b	6.20	8.84^ba	14.41^a	9.74^b	82.47	85.52
CK	0.34	0.14	83.21	90.32^a	8.91	4.59^c	10.17^b	21.51^a	27.15	57.53
	Analysis of Variance (P > F)
Treatment	0.3	0.09	0.2	0.0001	0.2	0.001	0.04	0.0006	0.5	0.3
M vs. F	0.1	0.9	0.05	0.047	0.2	0.1	0.08	0.8	0.4	0.4

^†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.