The potato planting area of Guizhou Province ranks second in China. However, due to factors such as climatic conditions and unbalanced fertilization, soil organic matter in potato fields is consumed rapidly and has a large deficit, which affects soil biological function and soil fertility. Biochar and organic fertilizer are effective ways to supplement foreign aid organic matter to improve soil quality. However, the differences in soil fertility and microbial community structure and their relationships under the conditions of organic fertilizer or biochar combined with chemical fertilizer are not clear. In this study, three treatments of conventional fertilization (NPK), increased application of biochar (NPKB), and increased application of organic fertilizer (NPKO) were set up to investigate the characteristics of potato rhizosphere soil, bacterial community composition, and diversity; to analyze the effects of these factors on the soil integrated fertility index; and to explore the direct and indirect effects of IFI on soil fertility and bacterial community structure differences between treatments and their driving factors. The results showed that soil pH, available phosphorus (AP), available potassium (AK), total nitrogen (TN), organic carbon (SOC), and C/N ratio were significantly higher in the NPKB and NPKO treatments than in the NPK treatment (
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