Abstract:Livestock manure is an important reservoir of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and the application of organic fertilizer is one of the effective ways to improve salinized soil. Therefore, salinized soil has the risk of being contaminated by antibiotics. Oxytetracycline is a common and high content antibiotic in livestock and poultry manure. The microbial and phytoremediation effects of salinized soil contaminated by oxytetracycline were studied by pot experiment. The results showed that compared with the original soil + oxytetracycline (CK), the contents of oxytetracycline in the soil inoculated with degrading bacteria (inoculation bacteria, IB) alone, lettuce (growing lettuce, GL) alone and combined remediation of degrading bacteria and lettuce (BLC) were decreased by 42.47%, 39.01% and 40.44% at 30d, respectively. The degradation rate was the highest when DB1 was inoculated alone, reaching 54.93%. Compared with CK treatment, IB, GL and BLC treatments generally significantly reduced the total relative abundance of ARGs in soil by 53.84%~73.86%, 63.64% and 64.17%~76.47% at 30d, respectively, mainly by reducing quinolones (qepA, oqxB and qnrB, etc. ) and tetracycline ARGs (tetPB-01, tetPB-05 and tetR-02, etc.). Three ways changed the diversity of soil bacteria. At 30d, IB, GL and BLC decreased the relative abundance of Actinobacteriota, significantly increased the number of Woeseia and decreased the number of Luteimonas at the genus level. The three repair methods increased the risk of horizontal transfer of individual genes (such as tetX, tetG-01 and ermF). Overall, single inoculation of degrading bacteria, single planting of lettuce and combined remediation of degrading bacteria and lettuce can reduce the content of oxytetracycline in salinized soil, which had a significant inhibitory effect on the production of ARGs;however, the remediation ability of pure plant degradation to oxytetracycline-contaminated saline soil was limited, and the remediation effect of inoculation with highly efficient degrading bacteria was the best. Inoculation of degrading bacteria alone reduced the spread of ARGs mainly by affecting the diversity and structure of soil microbial communities and inhibiting the horizontal gene transfer of mobile genetic elements (MGEs). Combined remediation mainly reduced the abundance of ARGs by reducing the diversity of microbial communities and changing their structure. The results aimed to provide a scientific basis for reducing the spread of ARGs in salinized soil-plant ecosystems.