Tamarixetin enrich rhizosphere Priestia megaterium to enhance slow release fertilizer degradation thus improve maize performance

Biodegradation of nutrient polymerization slow-release fertilizers (NPFs) is an important process to improve their nutrient utilization efficiency, but little is known about the degrading strains and enzymes. In here, an NPFs degrading strain (Priestia megaterium YC5) was isolated from a corn field where NPFs had been long-time applied, and shed light on the NPFs degradation pathway using a multiomic approach and also linking the response relationship between strains and maize root exudates. The genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic were used to analyses to identify genes and proteins potentially involved in NPFs degradation (e.g., peptidase, amidase and urease), and propose a NPFs biodegradation and its utilization pathway.