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Bio–Tillage Mediated by Root–AMF Synergy Promotes the Amelioration of the Compacted Soil Environment and Soybean Growth Under Conservation Management
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Bio–tillage can continuously regulate the soil environment through plant roots and rhizosphere biological activities and is considered a low disturbance tillage practice that can alleviate soil compaction. However, long term chemical fertilization alone may limit rhizosphere carbon supply and weaken root–microbe interactions. Whether conservation management can coordinate root adaptation and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) responses to ameliorate the compacted soil environment and improve crop growth remains unclear. This study compared five treatments: chemical fertilizer alone (CN), straw return (SR), organic manure application (OM), straw return combined with organic manure application (SROM), and green manure intercropping (GM). SROM and GM showed the most pronounced soil amelioration effects. Compared with CN, SROM enhanced root tensile strength and elongation at break, increased the relative abundances of Glomus and Claroideoglomus and the accumulation of easily extractable and total glomalin–related soil protein (EE–GRSP and T–GRSP), reduced soil bulk density (BD) by 10.68% and 6.57% in the 0–20 and 20–40 cm soil layers, respectively, and increased MWD and GMD by 78.49–82.08%. The effects of GM were concentrated in the 20–40 cm soil layer, where enhanced soybean root Young’s modulus and complementary interspecific root distribution reduced BD by 7.36% and increased total porosity (TP) by 9.36%. GM also increased AMF root colonization, the relative abundance of Claroideoglomus, and soil nutrient availability. Additionally, SROM generally maintained the highest aboveground dry matter accumulation and exhibited the highest instantaneous growth rate, whereas the current–season growth benefit under GM was relatively limited. These findings highlight the key roles of roots and AMF in soil amelioration and soybean growth and provide a reference for optimizing low disturbance soil management in compacted black soil regions.
Keywords:
bio–tillage
soil compaction
root morphological plasticity
root biomechanics
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
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