外源无机氮素形态对土壤氨基糖动态的影响

微生物生长对底物的可利用性存在不同的响应,外源氮素的形态可以显著影响微生物代谢过程,而土壤氨基糖作为微生物细胞壁残留物,其形成、分解和周转特征与外源碳氮供给密切相关,对土壤氨基糖的研究与同位素标记技术相结合,可以进一步反映微生物对底物的利用特征.本文以葡萄糖及15N标记的NH4+和NO3-为底物,利用气相色谱-质谱联机技术,通过测定氨基糖中同位素富集比例,跟踪新形成(标记)和原有(非标记)的土壤氨基糖的动态变化.结果表明:在培养过程中,15N标记的氨基糖含量显著增加,NH4+向氨基糖的转化显著高于NO3-,反映出微生物对NH4+的选择性利用.土壤中原有的氨基糖也发生了不同变化.其中,非标记氨基葡萄糖在N H4+为底物时,其含量有所增加,但在NO3-为底物时含量逐渐下降;非标记胞壁酸含量在2个处理中均不断下降,尤其以NO3-为底物时更为显著;非标记氨基半乳糖含量的增减幅度均小于20％.这种特异性变化表明,不同来源的微生物细胞壁残留物对土壤氮素周转和稳定的作用不同,真菌细胞壁残留物易于在土壤中积累,有利于土壤有机质的稳定,而细菌细胞壁残留物容易分解,在土壤有机质周转过程中起重要作用.

Effects of extraneous inorganic nitrogen forms on the dynamics of soil amino sugars

Substrate availability affects microbial growth, whereas extraneous nitrogen forms can significantly affect microbial metabolic processes. As for soil amino sugars, the stable residues in microbial cell wall, their synthesis, decomposition and turnover are closely related to the availability of extraneous carbon and nitrogen. Using isotope tracing technique to study soil amino sugars can further understand the substrate utilization profiles by soil microorganisms. In this study, two incubation tests were conducted, with glucose plus 15N-labelled NH4+ or NO3- as the substrates, respectively. The 15N enrichment in each kind of soil amino sugars was identified by gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/MS) to trace the dynamics of soil 15N-labelled and native amino sugars. During the incubation, the content of soil 15N-labelled amino sugars increased significantly, and the transformation rate from NH4+ to amino sugars was significantly higher than that from NO3-, suggesting the preferred utilization of NH4+ than NO3- by soil microorganisms. Significant changes in the amounts of soil unlabelled amino sugars were observed. The amount of unlabelled glucosamine increased with NH4+ addition, but decreased gradually with NO3- addition. The content of unlabelled muramic acid decreased gradually, especially with NO3- addition. Either the increase or the decrease of galactosamine did not exceed 20% to the original value. These compound-specific changes showed that the heterogeneous microbial residues played different roles on the turnover and stabilization of nitrogen in soil matrix. Fungal cell wall residues were easily accumulated in soil matrix, which benefited the stabilization of soil organic matter, while bacterial cell wall residues were easily degraded, playing an important role in the turnover of soil organic matter.