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Table 3 Relative abundance of bacterial phyla of different fertilization strategies (relative abundance > 1%)

From: Effect of long-term fertilization strategies on bacterial community composition in a 35-year field experiment of Chinese Mollisols

Phylum

CK (%)

PK (%)

NPK (%)

MPK (%)

Proteobacteria

30.79 ± 0.98ab

29.59 ± 1.00a

33.47 ± 0.57ab

35.73 ± 8.96b

Acidobacteria

15.92 ± 0.94b

16.39 ± 1.78b

13.61 ± 1.26a

13.23 ± 1.56a

Actinobacteria

10.30 ± 0.83a

9.35 ± 3.54a

10.83 ± 1.46a

9.26 ± 3.29a

Verrucomicrobia

8.69 ± 0.33a

9.22 ± 1.57a

9.92 ± 0.84a

8.62 ± 1.32a

Planctomycetes

7.32 ± 0.36ab

8.04 ± 0.74b

7.66 ± 0.52ab

7.03 ± 0.96a

Gemmatimonadetes

7.23 ± 1.07ab

7.24 ± 0.92a

8.40 ± 0.91b

6.03 ± 1.11ab

Chloroflexi

7.51 ± 0.28b

6.94 ± 0.6ab

6.50 ± 0.47a

6.49 ± 1.34a

Bacteroidetes

4.18 ± 1.36ab

4.82 ± 1.49ab

3.04 ± 0.37a

5.35 ± 1.8b

Thaumarchaeota

2.89 ± 0.69a

3.47 ± 1.59a

3.62 ± 0.70a

3.76 ± 1.61a

Nitrospirae

2.71 ± 0.28ab

2.49 ± 0.18ab

1.01 ± 0.12a

2.40 ± 0.30b

  1. Values are mean ± standard deviation (n = 6). Values within the same column followed by different lowercase letters indicate significant differences according to Tukey’s multiple comparison tests