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Wang Y, Ye F, Wu S, Wu J, Yan J, Xu K, Hong Y. Biogeographic pattern of bacterioplanktonic community and potential function in the Yangtze River: Roles of abundant and rare taxa. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 747:141335. [PMID: 32795800 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Bacterioplanktonic communities, consisting of a few abundant taxa (AT) and many rare taxa (RT), are essential component of riverine ecosystems. Nonetheless, the biogeographic patterns of bacterioplankton and roles of AT and RT in community structuring and functional composition remain uncertain in large rivers. Here, we employ the Yangtze River, which is the third-longest river in the world, as model system. By using high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics tool of Tax4Fun, the geographical patterns of bacterioplanktonic taxonomic and predicted functional communities are investigated, and the relative importance of abundant and rare subcommunities in community structuring are explored. Results showed a clear spatial variation that the bacterioplanktonic communities of upper, middle and lower reaches of the river are significantly different from each other. Besides, the Three Gorges Dam exhibited impact on the bacterioplankton of upper reach whose community is relatively closer to that of the Poyang Lake. Both the abundant and rare subcommunities showed spatial variation along the river, which is similar to the total bacterioplanktonic community. The rare subcommunity comprised a majority of community diversity with 23.6% of the total sequences and 94.2% of the total OTUs. The rare subcommunity contributes a major part (56.8%) versus abundant subcommunity (16.3%) of the spatial variation of the total community. In addition, the non-RT exhibits more interactions with RT than with themselves, and all of the 33 keystone species are belonged to RT. Hence, the RT is critical for community structuring and assembling. By contrast, no obvious spatial effect was observed for the predicted functional community. The predicted functions of abundant and rare subcommunities are consistent with that of total community, despite their contrasting community composition. In summary, the rare subcommunity show significantly impact on the community structure and assembling, and play an important role in predicted function as 'seed bank' in the Yangtze River.
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- Yu Wang
- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China
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- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan
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- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
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Ci D, Tang Z, Ding H, Cui L, Zhang G, Li S, Dai L, Qin F, Zhang Z, Yang J, Xu Y. The synergy effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis and exogenous calcium on bacterial community composition and growth performance of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in saline alkali soil. J Microbiol 2020; 59:51-63. [PMID: 33201434 DOI: 10.1007/s12275-021-0317-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Peanut (Arachis hypogaea. L) is an important oil seed crop. Both arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) symbiosis and calcium (Ca2+) application can ameliorate the impact of saline soil on peanut production, and the rhizosphere bacterial communities are also closely correlated with peanut salt tolerance; however, whether AMF and Ca2+ can withstand high-salinity through or partially through modulating rhizosphere bacterial communities is unclear. Here, we used the rhizosphere bacterial DNA from saline alkali soil treated with AMF and Ca2+ alone or together to perform high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA genes. Taxonomic analysis revealed that AMF and Ca2+ treatment increased the abundance of Proteobacteria and Firmicutes at the phylum level. The nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sphingomonas was the dominant genus in these soils at the genus level, and the soil invertase and urease activities were also increased after AMF and Ca2+ treatment, implying that AMF and Ca2+ effectively improved the living environment of plants under salt stress. Moreover, AMF combined with Ca2+ was better than AMF or Ca2+ alone at altering the bacterial structure and improving peanut growth in saline alkali soil. Together, AMF and Ca2+ applications are conducive to peanut salt adaption by regulating the bacterial community in saline alkali soil.
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- Dunwei Ci
- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Shandong Key Lab. of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Jinan, 250100, P. R. China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China
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- Shandong Provincial Crop Germplasm Resource Centre, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, 250100, P. R. China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China.
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- Shandong Peanut Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, 266100, P. R. China.
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Illescas M, Rubio MB, Hernández-Ruiz V, Morán-Diez ME, Martínez de Alba AE, Nicolás C, Monte E, Hermosa R. Effect of Inorganic N Top Dressing and Trichoderma harzianum Seed-Inoculation on Crop Yield and the Shaping of Root Microbial Communities of Wheat Plants Cultivated Under High Basal N Fertilization. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:575861. [PMID: 33193517 PMCID: PMC7644891 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.575861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Wheat crop production needs nitrogen (N) for ensuring yield and quality. High doses of inorganic N fertilizer are applied to soil before sowing (basal dressing), with additional doses supplied along the cultivation (top dressing). Here, a long-term wheat field trial (12 plots), including four conditions (control, N top dressing, Trichoderma harzianum T34 seed-inoculation, and top dressing plus T34) in triplicate, was performed to assess, under high basal N fertilization, the influence of these treatments on crop yield and root microbial community shaping. Crop yield was not affected by top dressing and T. harzianum T34, but top dressing significantly increased grain protein and gluten contents. Twenty-seven-week old wheat plants were collected at 12 days after top dressing application and sampled as bulk soil, rhizosphere and root endosphere compartments in order to analyze their bacterial and fungal assemblies by 16S rDNA and ITS2 high-throughput sequencing, respectively. Significant differences for bacterial and fungal richness and diversity were detected among the three compartments with a microbial decline from bulk soil to root endosphere. The most abundant wheat root phyla were Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria for bacteria, and Ascomycota and Basidiomycota for fungi. An enrichment of genera commonly associated with soils subjected to chemical N fertilization was observed: Kaistobacter, Mortierella, and Solicoccozyma in bulk soil, Olpidium in rhizosphere, and Janthinobacterium and Pedobacter in root endosphere. Taxa whose abundance significantly differed among conditions within each compartment were identified. Results show that: (i) single or strain T34-combined application of N top dressing affected to a greater extent the bulk soil bacterial levels than the use of T34 alone; (ii) when N top dressing and T34 were applied in combination, the N fertilizer played a more decisive role in the bacterial microbiome than T34; (iii) many genera of plant beneficial bacteria, negatively affected by N top dressing, were increased by the application of T34 alone; (iv) bulk soil and rhizosphere fungal microbiomes were affected by any of the three treatments assayed; and (v) all treatments reduced Claroideoglomus in bulk soil but the single application of T34 raised the rhizosphere levels of this mycorrhizal fungus.
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- María Illescas
- Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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Wang X, Li Y, Wei Y, Meng H, Cao Y, Lead JR, Hong J. Effects of fertilization and reclamation time on soil bacterial communities in coal mining subsidence areas. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 739:139882. [PMID: 32540656 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Land impaired by mining activity can be restored to a productive and healthy state through a variety of reclamation methods. Fertilization is one effective method to improve soil fertility and microbial activity. However, the effects of fertilization and reclamation time on bacterial communities in reclaimed soil remain unclear. Here, we hypothesized that both fertilization and reclamation time could promote restoration of reclaimed soil. To test this, soil properties and bacterial communities in a reclaimed coal mining subsidence area were investigated under different fertilizer regimes and different reclamation times. Compared with no fertilization treatment, fertilization rapidly improved the soil nutrients and bacterial α-diversity, both of which exhibited no significant differences between chemical fertilizer and organic fertilizer. With increasing of reclamation time, the soil nutrient levels (soil organic matter, available nitrogen, available phosphorus, available potassium) and the bacterial diversity increased. Meanwhile, the relative abundances of Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes increased, and the relative abundances of Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi and Nitrospirae decreased. Compared with the 1-year and 3-year reclaimed soils, the soil nutrients and bacterial community structure in the 7-year reclaimed soils were more similar to those in the undisturbed soils. In conclusion, reclamation time is the main driving force for the restoration of soil properties and bacterial communities in mining areas, and fertilization can shorten the recovery time of the reclaimed soil.
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- Xiangying Wang
- College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu County, Shanxi, China; College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu County, Shanxi, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu County, Shanxi, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu County, Shanxi, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu County, Shanxi, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu County, Shanxi, China
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- Center for Environmental Nanoscience, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29212, USA
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu County, Shanxi, China.
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Babalola OO, Fadiji AE, Enagbonma BJ, Alori ET, Ayilara MS, Ayangbenro AS. The Nexus Between Plant and Plant Microbiome: Revelation of the Networking Strategies. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:548037. [PMID: 33013781 PMCID: PMC7499240 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.548037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The diversity of plant-associated microbes is enormous and complex. These microbiomes are structured and form complex interconnected microbial networks that are important in plant health and ecosystem functioning. Understanding the composition of the microbiome and their core function is important in unraveling their networking strategies and their potential influence on plant performance. The network is altered by the host plant species, which in turn influence the microbial interaction dynamics and co-evolution. We discuss the plant microbiome and the complex interplay among microbes and between their host plants. We provide an overview of how plant performance is influenced by the microbiome diversity and function.
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- Olubukola Oluranti Babalola
- Food Security and Safety Niche, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa
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- Food Security and Safety Niche, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa
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- Food Security and Safety Niche, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Nigeria
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- Food Security and Safety Niche, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa
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- Food Security and Safety Niche, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa
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Latif S, Bibi S, Kouser R, Fatimah H, Farooq S, Naseer S, Kousar R. Characterization of bacterial community structure in the rhizosphere of Triticum aestivum L. Genomics 2020; 112:4760-4768. [PMID: 32712294 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.07.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The plant microbiome influence plant health, yield and vigor and has attained a considerable attention in the present era. In the current study, native bacterial community composition and diversity colonizing Triticum aestivum L. rhizosphere at two distant geographical locations including Mirpur Azad Kashmir and Islamabad was elucidated. Based on IonS5™XL platform sequencing of respective samples targeting 16S rRNA gene that harbor V3-V4 conserved region revealed 1364 and 1254 microbial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at ≥97% similarity and were classified into 23, 20 phyla; 70, 65 classes; 101, 87 orders; 189,180 families; 275, 271 genera and 94, 95 species. Respective predominant phyla accounting for 97.90% and 98.60% of bacterial community were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Chloroflexi and Gemmatimonadetes. Diversity indices revealed variations in relative abundance of bacterial taxa owing to distant geographical locations however predominant bacterial taxa at both locations were similar. These findings paved a way to dissect consequence of associated microbiota on future wheat production system.
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- Sadia Latif
- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan; Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Ma G, Kang J, Wang J, Chen Y, Lu H, Wang L, Wang C, Xie Y, Ma D, Kang G. Bacterial Community Structure and Predicted Function in Wheat Soil From the North China Plain Are Closely Linked With Soil and Plant Characteristics After Seven Years of Irrigation and Nitrogen Application. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:506. [PMID: 32296405 PMCID: PMC7136406 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2019] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The influence of water and nitrogen (N) management on wheat have been investigated, but studies on the impact of long-term interactive water and N management on microbial structure and function are limited. Soil chemical properties and plants determine the soil microbial communities whose functions involved in nutrient cycling may affect plant productivity. There is an urgent need to elucidate the underlying mechanisms to optimize these microbial communities for agricultural sustainability in the winter wheat production area of the North China Plain. We performed high-throughput sequencing and quantitative PCR of the 16S rRNA gene on soil from a 7-year-old stationary field experiment to investigate the response of bacterial communities and function to water and N management. It was observed that water and N management significantly influenced wheat growth, soil properties and bacterial diversity. N application caused a significant decrease in the number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs), and both Richness and Shannon diversity indices, in the absence of irrigation. Irrigation led to an increase in the relative abundance of Planctomycetes, Latescibacteria, Anaerolineae, and Chloroflexia. In addition, most bacterial taxa were correlated with soil and plant properties. Some functions related to carbohydrate transport, transcription, inorganic ion transport and lipid transport were enriched in irrigation treatment, while N enriched predicted functions related to amino acid transport and metabolism, signal transduction, and cell wall/membrane/envelope biogenesis. Understanding the impact of N application and irrigation on the structure and function of soil bacteria is important for developing strategies for sustainable wheat production. Therefore, concurrent irrigation and N application may improve wheat yield and help to maintain those ecosystem functions that are driven by the soil microbial community.
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- Geng Ma
- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,National Engineering Research Centre for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,National Engineering Research Centre for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,National Engineering Research Centre for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,National Engineering Research Centre for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,National Engineering Research Centre for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.,National Engineering Research Centre for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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Wang Y, Lu L, Hong Y, Wu J, Zhu G, Ye F, Li Z. Divergent responses of taxonomic and predicted functional profiles of bacterioplankton to reservoir impoundment. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2020; 182:109083. [PMID: 31901627 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.109083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Freshwater ecosystems are undergoing extensive human disturbance of dam construction which form large amounts of reservoirs and lead to dramatic changes in hydraulic conditions. Bacterioplankton are key component of aquatic ecosystems. Investigation on their taxonomic compositions and associated functions responded to reservoir operation is essential to understand the ecological consequence of dam construction. In this study, we use the Three Gorges Reservoir as a model system. High-throughput sequencing is used to investigate the bacterioplankton community composition, and the bioinformatic tool of Tax4Fun is applied to predict the potential metabolic functions responded to reservoir impoundment. Results show that the taxonomic communities of bacterioplankton are significantly impacted by impoundment. The dominant group of Actinobacteria which accounts for 17.0%-58.1% of the retrieved sequences significantly increases after impoundment on phylum level. The influences of impoundment appear to be more apparent on order level that the relative abundances of four groups including Frankiales, Sphingomonadales, Sphingobacteriales and SubsectionI of class Cyanobacteria significantly vary after impoundment. In contrast, the predicted functional communities of bacterioplankton remain relatively stable that most of predicted functional categories including methane and nitrogen metabolisms have no significant variation after impoundment. Besides, significant distance decay patterns appear on the taxonomic communities after impoundment rather than the predicted functional communities. The environmental variables show significant impacts on the taxonomic community rather than predicted functional community, whereas the spatial variables have no effect on both taxonomic and predicted functional communities. In general, the taxonomic and predicted functional communities of bacterioplankton exhibit divergent responses to the impoundment in reservoir.
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- Yu Wang
- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400714, China
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- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China
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- Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400714, China.
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Tkacz A, Pini F, Turner TR, Bestion E, Simmonds J, Howell P, Greenland A, Cheema J, Emms DM, Uauy C, Poole PS. Agricultural Selection of Wheat Has Been Shaped by Plant-Microbe Interactions. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:132. [PMID: 32117153 PMCID: PMC7015950 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The influence of wheat (modern wheat, both bread and pasta, their wild ancestors and synthetic hybrids) on the microbiota of their roots and surrounding soil is characterized. We isolated lines of bread wheat by hybridizing diploid (Aegilops tauschii) with tetraploid Triticum durum and crossed it with a modern cultivar of Triticum aestivum. The newly created, synthetic hybrid wheat, which recapitulate the breeding history of wheat through artificial selection, is found to support a microbiome enriched in beneficial Glomeromycetes fungi, but also in, potentially detrimental, Nematoda. We hypothesize that during wheat domestication this plant-microbe interaction diminished, suggesting an evolutionary tradeoff; sacrificing advantageous nutrient acquisition through fungal interactions to minimize interaction with pathogenic fungi. Increased plant selection for Glomeromycetes and Nematoda is correlated with the D genome derived from A. tauschii. Despite differences in their soil microbiota communities, overall wheat plants consistently show a low ratio of eukaryotes to prokaryotes. We propose that this is a mechanism for protection against soil-borne fungal disease and appears to be deeply rooted in the wheat genome. We suggest that the influence of plants on the composition of their associated microbiota is an integral factor, hitherto overlooked, but intrinsic to selection during wheat domestication.
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- Andrzej Tkacz
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
- National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Kavamura VN, Robinson RJ, Hughes D, Clark I, Rossmann M, Melo ISD, Hirsch PR, Mendes R, Mauchline TH. Wheat dwarfing influences selection of the rhizosphere microbiome. Sci Rep 2020; 10:1452. [PMID: 31996781 PMCID: PMC6989667 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58402-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The development of dwarf wheat cultivars combined with high levels of agrochemical inputs during the green revolution resulted in high yielding cropping systems. However, changes in wheat cultivars were made without considering impacts on plant and soil microbe interactions. We studied the effect of these changes on root traits and on the assembly of rhizosphere bacterial communities by comparing eight wheat cultivars ranging from tall to semi-dwarf plants grown under field conditions. Wheat breeding influenced root diameter and specific root length (SRL). Rhizosphere bacterial communities from tall cultivars were distinct from those associated with semi-dwarf cultivars, with higher differential abundance of Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria in tall cultivars, compared with a higher differential abundance of Verrucomicrobia, Planctomycetes and Acidobacteria in semi-dwarf cultivars. Predicted microbial functions were also impacted and network analysis revealed a greater level of connectedness between microbial communities in the tall cultivars relative to semi-dwarf cultivars. Taken together, results suggest that the development of semi-dwarf plants might have affected the ability of plants to recruit and sustain a complex bacterial community network in the rhizosphere.
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- Vanessa N Kavamura
- Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Plant Pathology Laboratory, Royal Horticultural Society, RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Embrapa Environment, Jaguariúna-SP, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Embrapa Environment, Jaguariúna-SP, Brazil
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- Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Embrapa Environment, Jaguariúna-SP, Brazil
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- Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
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Kavamura VN, Robinson RJ, Hayat R, Clark IM, Hughes D, Rossmann M, Hirsch PR, Mendes R, Mauchline TH. Land Management and Microbial Seed Load Effect on Rhizosphere and Endosphere Bacterial Community Assembly in Wheat. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2625. [PMID: 31803160 PMCID: PMC6873152 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Microbial community ecology studies have traditionally utilized culture-based methodologies, though the advent of next-generation amplicon sequencing has facilitated superior resolution analyses of complex microbial communities. Here, we used culture-dependent and -independent approaches to explore the influence of land use as well as microbial seed load on bacterial community structure of the wheat rhizosphere and root endosphere. It was found that niche was an important factor in shaping the microbiome when using both methodological approaches, and that land use was also a discriminatory factor for the culture-independent-based method. Although culture-independent methods provide a higher resolution of analysis, it was found that in the rhizosphere, particular operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in the culture-dependent fraction were absent from the culture-independent fraction, indicating that deeper sequence analysis is required for this approach to be exhaustive. We also found that the microbial seed load defined the endosphere, but not rhizosphere, community structure for plants grown in soil which was not wheat adapted. Together, these findings increase our understanding of the importance of land management and microbial seed load in shaping the root microbiome of wheat and this knowledge will facilitate the exploitation of plant-microbe interactions for the development of novel microbial inoculants.
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- Department of Soil Science and Soil and Water Conservation, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Embrapa Meio Ambiente, Jaguariúna, Brazil
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- Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Embrapa Meio Ambiente, Jaguariúna, Brazil
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- Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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Hartman K, Tringe SG. Interactions between plants and soil shaping the root microbiome under abiotic stress. Biochem J 2019; 476:2705-2724. [PMID: 31654057 PMCID: PMC6792034 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20180615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Revised: 08/24/2019] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Plants growing in soil develop close associations with soil microorganisms, which inhabit the areas around, on, and inside their roots. These microbial communities and their associated genes - collectively termed the root microbiome - are diverse and have been shown to play an important role in conferring abiotic stress tolerance to their plant hosts. In light of growing concerns over the threat of water and nutrient stress facing terrestrial ecosystems, especially those used for agricultural production, increased emphasis has been placed on understanding how abiotic stress conditions influence the composition and functioning of the root microbiome and the ultimate consequences for plant health. However, the composition of the root microbiome under abiotic stress conditions will not only reflect shifts in the greater bulk soil microbial community from which plants recruit their root microbiome but also plant responses to abiotic stress, which include changes in root exudate profiles and morphology. Exploring the relative contributions of these direct and plant-mediated effects on the root microbiome has been the focus of many studies in recent years. Here, we review the impacts of abiotic stress affecting terrestrial ecosystems, specifically flooding, drought, and changes in nitrogen and phosphorus availability, on bulk soil microbial communities and plants that interact to ultimately shape the root microbiome. We conclude with a perspective outlining possible directions for future research needed to advance our understanding of the complex molecular and biochemical interactions between soil, plants, and microbes that ultimately determine the composition of the root microbiome under abiotic stress.
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- Kyle Hartman
- U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, U.S.A
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- U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, U.S.A
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A
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Pakchoi Antioxidant Improvement and Differential Rhizobacterial Community Composition under Organic Fertilization. SUSTAINABILITY 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/su11082424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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A high level of antioxidants in organic-produced vegetables has been attributed to soil conditions; however, little is known about the relationships between antioxidants and rhizobacteria under different fertilization treatments. A pot trial for pakchoi (Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis L.) was conducted under greenhouse conditions with: (1) control; (2) chemical fertilizer; and (3) organic fertilizer. The responses of the plant, soil properties, and rhizobacterial community were measured after 45 days of cultivation. Fertilization increased soil nutrient levels and pakchoi productivity and the reshaped rhizobacterial community structure, while no differences in rhizobacterial abundance and total diversity were observed. Generally, most plant antioxidants were negatively correlated with inorganic nitrogen (N) and positively correlated to organic N in soil. The genera of Arthrospira and Acutodesmus contained differential rhizobacteria under chemical fertilizer treatment, which are known as copiotrophs. In addition, the addition of a chemical fertilizer may stimulate organic substance turnover by the enrichment of organic compound degraders (e.g., Microbacterium and Chitinophaga) and the promotion of predicted functional pathways involved in energy metabolism. Several beneficial rhizobacteria were associated with organic fertilizer amended rhizosphere including the genera Bacillus, Mycobacterium, Actinomycetospora, and Frankia. Furthermore, Bacillus spp. were positively correlated with plant biomass and phenolic acid. Moreover, predictive functional profiles of the rhizobacterial community involved in amino acid metabolism and lipid metabolism were significantly increased under organic fertilization, which were positively correlated with plant antioxidant activity. Overall, our study suggests that the short-term application of chemical and organic fertilizers reshapes the rhizobacterial community structure, and such changes might contribute to the plant’s performance.
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Pagé AP, Tremblay J, Masson L, Greer CW. Nitrogen- and phosphorus-starved Triticum aestivum show distinct belowground microbiome profiles. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0210538. [PMID: 30785878 PMCID: PMC6382137 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Many plants have natural partnerships with microbes that can boost their nitrogen (N) and/or phosphorus (P) acquisition. To assess whether wheat may have undiscovered associations of these types, we tested if N/P-starved Triticum aestivum show microbiome profiles that are simultaneously different from those of N/P-amended plants and those of their own bulk soils. The bacterial and fungal communities of root, rhizosphere, and bulk soil samples from the Historical Dryland Plots (Lethbridge, Canada), which hold T. aestivum that is grown both under N/P fertilization and in conditions of extreme N/P-starvation, were taxonomically described and compared (bacterial 16S rRNA genes and fungal Internal Transcribed Spacers-ITS). As the list may include novel N- and/or P-providing wheat partners, we then identified all the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) that were proportionally enriched in one or more of the nutrient starvation- and plant-specific communities. These analyses revealed: a) distinct N-starvation root and rhizosphere bacterial communities that were proportionally enriched, among others, in OTUs belonging to families Enterobacteriaceae, Chitinophagaceae, Comamonadaceae, Caulobacteraceae, Cytophagaceae, Streptomycetaceae, b) distinct N-starvation root fungal communities that were proportionally enriched in OTUs belonging to taxa Lulworthia, Sordariomycetes, Apodus, Conocybe, Ascomycota, Crocicreas, c) a distinct P-starvation rhizosphere bacterial community that was proportionally enriched in an OTU belonging to genus Agrobacterium, and d) a distinct P-starvation root fungal community that was proportionally enriched in OTUs belonging to genera Parastagonospora and Phaeosphaeriopsis. Our study might have exposed wheat-microbe connections that can form the basis of novel complementary yield-boosting tools.
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- Antoine P. Pagé
- Aquatic and Crop Resource Development Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Energy, Mining and Environment Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Energy, Mining and Environment Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Montréal, QC, Canada
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