Pedosphere 24(3): 308--321, 2014
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©2014 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
| Impact of lignosulfonate on solution chemistry and phospholipid fatty acid composition in soils |
Å. R. ALMÅS1 , A. K. AFANOU2 and T. KROGSTAD1 |
1Norwegian University of Life Science, Department of Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, N-1432 Ås (Norway)
2National Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Chemistry and Biology, P.O. Box 8149 Dep, N-0033 Oslo (Norway) |
| ABSTRACT |
| An incubation experiment (Exp. 1) with three soils, two from Australia and one from Norway, was carried out to investigate the fate of dissolved BorreGro (a lignosulfonate, produced by Borregaard LignoTech Company, Norway) at different concentrations (0, 10 and 100 mg C L-1) in soil solutions. A rhizobox experiment (Exp. 2) was also done in a Norwegian clay soil, mixed with four levels of BorreGro-carbon (BG-C) added (0, 2, 20 and 200 mg BG-C kg-1) to test the impact of BorreGro on root growth, rhizosphere chemistry (pH, metals and dissolved organic carbon (DOC)) and the composition of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs). The BorreGro addition increased the concentration of Mn due to the high concentrations in BorreGro. The BorreGro addition to soil had an indirect but significant impact on the rhizosphere chemistry and PLFAs. The lowest amounts of added BorreGro facilitated the DOCexcretion at plant roots, and thereby increased the bacterial and fungal biomass, likely as an effect of increasedMn solubility from BorreGro in the root zone. |
| Key Words: Ca, dissolved organic carbon, Mn, rhizosphere chemistry,WHAM/Model VI |
| Citation: AlmÅs, R., Afanou, A. K. and Krogstad, T. 2014. Impact of lignosulfonate on solution chemistry and phospholipid fatty acid composition in soils. Pedosphere. 24(3): 308-321. |
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