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Although, several studies have documented the effects of biochar and fertilizer combinations on nitrifying microbial communities, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this study, the abundances of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in the BT3 (15 t\/ha) and BT5 (40 t\/ha) treatments, and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in the BT4 (20 t\/ha) treatment, were significantly higher than in fertilizer-only treatments. In contrast, nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) in the BT2 (5 t\/ha) treatment exhibited the most significant difference (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.05). Compared to the control (BT1), the relative abundances of AOB (Nitrosomonas; 51.74%) and NOB (Nitrolancea; 62.26%) increased significantly (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.05) with higher application rates of biochar fertilizer concentration. Metabolic profiling and molecular docking simulations precisely demonstrated that 2,2-diethylacetamide (DEA), a compound structurally analogous to oxalate, interacts with the active site of pyruvate kinase, thereby affecting the glycolysis pathway. A subsequent potting experiment confirmed that DEA treatment increased pyruvate kinase gene expression (from 1.37 to 11.03;\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.05), soil pyruvic acid concentration (from 1.73 to 21.65;\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.05), and nitrifier abundance (from 0.20% to 0.56%;\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.05). Furthermore, soil copper (Cu;\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    = 0.21,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.05), molybdenum (Mo;\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    = 0.53, p &amp;lt; 0.05), zinc (Zn;\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    = 0.37,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.05), and total organic carbon (TOC;\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    = 0.24,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.05) content were negatively correlated with nitrifier abundance as biochar-fertilizer application increased. This indicates that DEA derived from biochar, in conjunction with soil elemental composition, collectively influences nitrifying communities. The relationships between biochar-fertilizer application and nitrifier communities established in this study will inform precise application strategies to enhance nitrogen use efficiency in crops.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2025.1720769","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,11]],"date-time":"2025-12-11T06:31:04Z","timestamp":1765434664000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Effects of long-term biochar application combined with chemical fertilization on the nitrifier community in tobacco plantation soil"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Di","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hang","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tianyi","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"E","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Junyi","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"57","DOI":"10.1038\/nmeth.2276","article-title":"Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing","volume":"10","author":"Bokulich","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nat. 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