Chemical and Microbial Characterization of Fermented Forest Litters Used as Biofertilizers

Author:

Marois Johann1,Lerch Thomas Z.1ORCID,Dunant Ugo2,Farnet Da Silva Anne-Marie2,Christen Pierre2

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Ecology and Environnemental Sciences of Paris, UMR 7618 (CNRS, SU, IRD, UPEC, INRAe, UPC), 94010 Créteil, France

2. Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et Continentale, UMR 7263 (CNRS, AMU, IRD, AU), 13397 Marseille, France

Abstract

The excessive use of chemicals in intensive agriculture has had a negative impact on soil diversity and fertility. A strategy for developing sustainable agriculture could rely on the use of microbial-based fertilizers, known as biofertilizers. An alternative to marketed products could be offered to small farmers if they could produce their own biofertilizers using forest litters, which harbor one of the highest microbial diversities. The aim of this study is to characterize microbial communities of Fermented Forest Litters (FFL), assuming that the fermentation process will change both their abundance and diversity. We investigated two types of differing in the chemical composition of the initial litters used and the climatic context of the forest where they are originated from. The abundance and diversity of bacterial and fungal communities were assessed using quantitative PCR and molecular genotyping techniques. The litter chemical compositions were compared before and after fermentation using Infrared spectrometry. Results obtained showed that fermentation increased the abundance of bacteria but decreased that of fungi. Low pH and change in organic matter composition observed after fermentation also significantly reduced the α-diversity of both bacterial and fungal communities. The higher proportion of aliphatic molecules and lower C/N of the FFLs compared to initial litters indicate that FFLs should be rapidly decomposed once added into the soil. This preliminary study suggests that the agronomic interest of FFLs used as biofertilizers is probably more related to the contribution of nutrients easily assimilated by plants than to the diversity of microorganisms that compose it. Further studies must be conducted with sequencing techniques to identify precisely the microbial species likely to be beneficial to plant growth.

Funder

Aix Marseille Université

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Virology,Microbiology (medical),Microbiology

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