The study aimed to identify the preference of pathways of humus formation. Five lab-scale composting experiments were established: the control (CK), montmorillonite addition (M), illite addition (I), thermal treatment montmorillonite addition (M-) and thermal treatment illite addition (I-). Results showed humus content was increased by 11.5%, 39.3%, 37.2%, 30.9% and 27.6% during CK, M-, M, I- and I composting. Meanwhile, Redundancy analysis indicated the bands of bacteria community related to humic acid (HA) were more abundant in the M- and I- treatments. Furthermore, structural equation model and variance partitioning analysis demonstrated that M- and I- treatments promoted precursors to synthesize HA by coordinated regulation of biotic pathway and abiotic pathway, the increase of HA in the M and I treatments mainly through the abiotic pathway. In summary, an effective method was proposed to improve humus production by adjusting the preference of biotic and abiotic pathways of humus formation.
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January 2025
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, LE12 5RD, UK.
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January 2025
Department of Mineral Processing Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China.
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January 2025
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China. Electronic address:
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Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China. Electronic address:
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January 2025
Department for Sustainable Food Process, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 29122 Piacenza, Italy. Electronic address:
Polyethylene nanoplastics (NPs) are widely diffused in terrestrial environments, including soil ecosystems, but the stress mechanisms in plants are not well understood. This study aimed to investigate the effects of two increasing concentrations of NPs (20 and 200 mg kg of soil) in lettuce. To this aim, high-throughput hyperspectral imaging was combined with metabolomics, covering both primary (using NMR) and secondary metabolism (using LC-HRMS), along with lipidomics profiling (using ion-mobility-LC-HRMS) and plant performance.
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