title: Volatile organic compound emissions from straw-amended agricultural soils and their relations to bacterial communities: A laboratory study.
abstract: A laboratory study was conducted to investigate volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from agricultural soil amended with wheat straw and their associations with bacterial communities for a period of 66days under non-flooded and flooded conditions. The results indicated that ethene, propene, ethanol, i-propanol, 2-butanol, acetaldehyde, acetone, 2-butanone, 2-pentanone and acetophenone were the 10 most abundant VOCs, making up over 90% of the total VOCs released under the two water conditions. The mean emission of total VOCs from the amended soils under the non-flooded condition (5924ng C/(kg·hr)) was significantly higher than that under the flooded condition (2211ng C/(kg·hr)). One "peak emission window" appeared at days 0-44 or 4-44, and over 95% of the VOC emissions occurred during the first month under the two water conditions. Bacterial community analysis using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) showed that a relative increase of Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes and γ-Proteobacteria but a relative decrease of Acidobacteria with time were observed after straw amendments under the two water conditions. Cluster analysis revealed that the soil bacterial communities changed greatly with incubation time, which was in line with the variation of the VOC emissions over the experimental period. Most of the above top 10 VOCs correlated positively with the predominant bacterial species of Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes and Verrucomicrobia but correlated negatively with the dominant bacterial species of Actinobacteria under the two water conditions. These results suggested that bacterial communities might play an important role in VOC emissions from straw-amended agricultural soils.
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
authors.forename: Zhe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China; State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China. Electronic address: wuting19@mail.ahnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China. Electronic address: wangxm@gig.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Xinming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
authors.forename: Wanhong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
authors.forename: Yujie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
authors.forename: Yonggan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
authors.forename: Chengfei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D061271:Acidobacteria; D039903:Actinobacteria; D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D058645:Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D012987:Soil / Q000737:chemistry; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D014908:Triticum; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D012987:Soil; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds
keywords: Agricultural soils; Correlations; Emission fluxes; Microbial communities; Straw amendment; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)