Thifluzamide is an effective agent for controlling rice sheath blight and has a long half-life in soil. However, the effects of thifluzamide on the abundance of microbes harboring methane-cycle genes and soil microbial community assembly patterns are not well known. Thus, we conducted a three-month indoor mesocosm experiment to ascertain the effects of thifluzamide (0.05, 0.5, and 5 mg kg(-1) soil; 0.05 mg kg(-1) soil being recommended) on bacterial and archaeal community structure and on the abundance of methanogen genes using two typical padd...
