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As a biodegradable biological macromolecular material, polylactic acid (PLA) is also widely used in agricultural production as a biodegradable film. The addition of agricultural microbes will affect the degradation rate of polylactic acid and thus its agricultural use. Under specific conditions (Tri15), the degradation rate of PLA film exceeds 30%. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images show that the degradation of the PLA happened after 360 days of exposure to these three specific microbe environments, which makes the surface of PLA films crack. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) analysis reveals that in the presence of these microbes, the molecular weight of PLA is reduced. The analysis of 16S rDNA sequences demonstrates that the introduction of these microbes alters the soil microbial community, resulting in an enhanced abundance of Betaproteomicrobes, promoting the degradation of PLA. 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