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Ji C, Guo J, Ma Y, Xu X, Zang T, Liu S, An Z, Yang M, He X, Zheng W. Application Progress of Culturomics in the Isolated Culture of Rhizobacteria: A Review. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2024; 72:7586-7595. [PMID: 38530921 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c08885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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Comprehending the structure and function of rhizobacteria components and their regulation are crucial for sustainable agricultural management. However, obtaining comprehensive species information for most bacteria in the natural environment, particularly rhizobacteria, presents a challenge using traditional culture methods. To obtain diverse and pure cultures of rhizobacteria, this study primarily reviews the evolution of rhizobacteria culturomics and associated culture methods. Furthermore, it explores new strategies for enhancing the application of culturomics, providing valuable insights into efficiently enriching and isolate target bacterial strains/groups from the environment. The findings will help improve rhizobacteria's culturability and enrich the functional bacterial library.
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- Chao Ji
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, National Engineering Research Center for Applied Technology of Agricultural Biodiversity, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, National Engineering Research Center for Applied Technology of Agricultural Biodiversity, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
- Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Landscape Architecture Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, National Engineering Research Center for Applied Technology of Agricultural Biodiversity, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
- Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Landscape Architecture Engineering Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China
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Stante M, Weiland-Bräuer N, von Hoyningen-Huene AJE, Schmitz RA. Marine bacteriophages disturb the associated microbiota of Aurelia aurita with a recoverable effect on host morphology. Front Microbiol 2024; 15:1356337. [PMID: 38533338 PMCID: PMC10964490 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1356337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
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The concept of the metaorganism describes a multicellular host and its diverse microbial community, which form one biological unit with a combined genetic repertoire that significantly influences health and survival of the host. The present study delved into the emerging field of bacteriophage research within metaorganisms, focusing on the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita as a model organism. The previously isolated Pseudomonas phage BSwM KMM1 and Citrobacter phages BSwM KMM2 - KMM4 demonstrated potent infectivity on bacteria present in the A. aurita-associated microbiota. In a host-fitness experiment, Baltic Sea subpopulation polyps were exposed to individual phages and a phage cocktail, monitoring polyp survival and morphology, as well as microbiome changes. The following effects were obtained. First, phage exposure in general led to recoverable malformations in polyps without affecting their survival. Second, analyses of the community structure, using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, revealed alterations in the associated microbial community in response to phage exposure. Third, the native microbiota is dominated by an uncultured likely novel Mycoplasma species, potentially specific to A. aurita. Notably, this main colonizer showed resilience through the recovery after initial declines, which aligned with abundance changes in Bacteroidota and Proteobacteria, suggesting a dynamic and adaptable microbial community. Overall, this study demonstrates the resilience of the A. aurita metaorganism facing phage-induced perturbations, emphasizing the importance of understanding host-phage interactions in metaorganism biology. These findings have implications for ecological adaptation and conservation in the rapidly changing marine environment, particularly regarding the regulation of blooming species and the health of marine ecosystems during ongoing environmental changes.
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- Institute of General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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Wang X, Zhou C, Zuo S, Ji Y, Liu W, Huang D. Heavy grazing reduces soil bacterial diversity by increasing soil pH in a semi-arid steppe. PeerJ 2024; 12:e17031. [PMID: 38464755 PMCID: PMC10924786 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024] Open
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Background In a context of long-term highly intensive grazing in grassland ecosystems, a better understanding of how quickly belowground biodiversity responds to grazing is required, especially for soil microbial diversity. Methods In this study, we conducted a grazing experiment which included the CK (no grazing with a fenced enclosure undisturbed by livestock), light and heavy grazing treatments in a desert steppe in Inner Mongolia, China. Microbial diversity and soil chemical properties (i.e., pH value, organic carbon, inorganic nitrogen (IN, NH 4 + -N and NO 3 - -N), total carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and available phosphorus content) both in rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils were analyzed to explore the responses of microbial diversity to grazing intensity and the underlying mechanisms. Results The results showed that heavy grazing only deceased bacterial diversity in the non-rhizosphere soil, but had no any significant effects on fungal diversity regardless of rhizosphere or non-rhizosphere soils. Bacterial diversity in the rhizosphere soil was higher than that of non-rhizosphere soil only in the heavy grazing treatment. Also, heavy grazing significantly increased soil pH value but deceased NH4+-N and available phosphorus in the non-rhizosphere soil. Spearman correlation analysis showed that soil pH value was significantly negatively correlated with the bacterial diversity in the non-rhizosphere soil. Combined, our results suggest that heavy grazing decreased soil bacterial diversity in the non-rhizosphere soil by increasing soil pH value, which may be due to the accumulation of dung and urine from livestock. Our results highlight that soil pH value may be the main factor driving soil microbial diversity in grazing ecosystems, and these results can provide scientific basis for grassland management and ecological restoration in arid and semi-arid area.
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- Xiaonan Wang
- College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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He X, Xiao X, Wei W, Li L, Zhao Y, Zhang N, Wang M. Soil rare microorganisms mediated the plant cadmium uptake: The central role of protists. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 908:168505. [PMID: 37967623 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/17/2023]
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Plants and microorganisms symbiotically mediate and/or catalyse the turnover of elements in rhizosphere soils, thus directly influencing the effectiveness of phytoremediation in addressing heavy metal contamination. Soil rare microbial communities are diverse but not well understood in terms of their importance for phytoremediation. In this study, we simulated the loss of rare microorganisms through dilution-to-extinction approach, and investigated the effects on integrated rhizosphere microbiome with soil microcosm experiments, including bacteria, fungi, protists, and microfauna. Additionally, we explored the implications for ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) growth and its uptake of Cd (cadmium). Compared with the undiluted group, ryegrass exhibited a significant decrease in Cd uptake ranging from 52.34 % to 73.71 % in the rare species-loss soils, indicating a lack of functional redundancy in rhizosphere soil microbial community following rare species loss. Interestingly, these soils displayed a remarkable 1.79-fold increase in plant biomass and a 41.02 % increase in plant height. By sequencing the 16S, 18S, and ITS rRNA gene amplicons of rhizosphere microbes, we found that soil rare species loss decreased the rhizosphere microbial α-diversity, changed the community structures, and shifted the functional potential. Protists were particularly affected. Through the analysis of species co-occurrence networks, along with the partial least squares path modeling, we found that the diversity of protists and bacteria and the co-occurring network connectivity of protists and fungi contributed most to plant Cd uptake and growth. These results highlighted the potential significance of rare microorganisms, particularly protists, in phytoextraction of Cd-contaminated soils, owing to their central role in the microbial food web.
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- Xingguo He
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- Chongqing Huanyue Ecological Environment Technology Co., Ltd., Chongqing 400000, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- Hunan Soil and Fertilizer Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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Li M, Raza M, Song S, Hou L, Zhang ZF, Gao M, Huang JE, Liu F, Cai L. Application of culturomics in fungal isolation from mangrove sediments. MICROBIOME 2023; 11:272. [PMID: 38082427 PMCID: PMC10712113 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-023-01708-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Fungi play a crucial role in ecosystems, and they have been widely considered a promising source for natural compounds that are crucial for drug discovery. Fungi have a high diversity, but about 95% of them remain unknown to science. The description rate of fungi is very low, mainly due to the inability of most fungi to grow in artificial media, which could not provide a sufficiently similar environment to their natural habitats. Moreover, many species in nature are in a state of low metabolic activity which cannot readily proliferate without proper resuscitation. Previously developed culturomics techniques are mostly designed and applicable for bacteria, with few attempts for fungal isolation because of their significantly larger cell size and hyphal growth properties. RESULTS This study attempted to isolate previously uncultured and rare fungi from mangrove sediments using newly developed fungal enrichment culture method (FECM) and fungal isolation chips (FiChips). Comparison of fungal community composition at different enrichment stages showed that FECM had great influence on fungal community composition, with rare taxa increased significantly, thus improving the isolation efficiency of previously uncultured fungi. Similarly, in situ cultivation using FiChips has a significant advantage in detecting and culturing rare fungi, as compared to the conventional dilution plate method (DPM). In addition, based on morphological comparisons and phylogenetic analyses, we described and proposed 38 new ascomycetous taxa, including three new families, eight new genera, 25 new species, and two new combinations (presented in additional file 1). CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrated that mangrove sediments harbor a high diversity of fungi, and our new isolation approaches (FECM and FiChips) presented a high efficiency in isolating hitherto uncultured fungi, which is potentially usable for fungal isolation in other similar environments. Video Abstract.
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- Meng Li
- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management On Crops in Northwestern Oasis, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, 830091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Lab of Space Nutrition and Food Engineering, China Astronaut Research and Training Center, Beijing, 100094, China
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- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511458, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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Fu X, Huang Y, Fu Q, Qiu Y, Zhao J, Li J, Wu X, Yang Y, Liu H, Yang X, Chen H. Critical transition of soil microbial diversity and composition triggered by plant rhizosphere effects. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1252821. [PMID: 38023904 PMCID: PMC10676204 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1252821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Over the years, microbial community composition in the rhizosphere has been extensively studied as the most fascinating topic in microbial ecology. In general, plants affect soil microbiota through rhizodeposits and changes in abiotic conditions. However, a consensus on the response of microbiota traits to the rhizosphere and bulk soils in various ecosystems worldwide regarding community diversity and structure has not been reached yet. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis of 101 studies to investigate the microbial community changes between the rhizosphere and bulk soils across various plant species (maize, rice, vegetables, other crops, herbaceous, and woody plants). Our results showed that across all plant species, plant rhizosphere effects tended to reduce the rhizosphere soil pH, especially in neutral or slightly alkaline soils. Beta-diversity of bacterial community was significantly separated between into rhizosphere and bulk soils. Moreover, r-strategists and copiotrophs (e.g. Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes) enriched by 24-27% in the rhizosphere across all plant species, while K-strategists and oligotrophic (e.g. Acidobacteria, Gemmatimonadete, Nitrospirae, and Planctomycetes) decreased by 15-42% in the rhizosphere. Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, and Chloroflexi are also depleted by in the plant rhizosphere compared with the bulk soil by 7-14%. The Actinobacteria exhibited consistently negative effect sizes across all plant species, except for maize and vegetables. In Firmicutes, both herbaceous and woody plants showed negative responses to rhizosphere effects, but those in maize and rice were contrarily enriched in the rhizosphere. With regards to Chloroflexi, apart from herbaceous plants showing a positive effect size, the plant rhizosphere effects were consistently negative across all other plant types. Verrucomicrobia exhibited a significantly positive effect size in maize, whereas herbaceous plants displayed a negative effect size in the rhizosphere. Overall, our meta-analysis exhibited significant changes in microbial community structure and diversity responding to the plant rhizosphere effects depending on plant species, further suggesting the importance of plant rhizosphere to environmental changes influencing plants and subsequently their controls over the rhizosphere microbiota related to nutrient cycling and soil health.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Sipriyadi S, Khairina Y, Masrukhin M, Yulandi A, Wibowo RH, Nisa DT. Bacterial community structure in the rhizosphere of fungi-infected Amorphophallus titanum. Can J Microbiol 2023; 69:439-448. [PMID: 37364294 DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2022-0256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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The rhizosphere is a narrow soil area directly affected by plant root exudates. Microbes inhabiting the rhizosphere have been widely studied for their beneficial effects on plant nutrition, growth, and disease prevention. Many factors affect the rhizosphere microbial composition, including plant pathogen infection. Here, we analyzed the bacterial community structure in the rhizosphere of fungi-infected Amorphophallus titanum. Soil samples were collected from rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere areas of fungi-infected A. titanum. The 16S metagenomic analysis was conducted to investigate the bacterial community of the samples by amplifying the V3-V4 region. The results showed that the phylum Firmicutes was prevalent in the rhizosphere, whereas the phyla Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Actinobacteria were limited. Some major fungal genera were isolated from infected tubers and rhizosphere soil of A. titanum, including Trichoderma sp., Aspergillus sp., Perenniporia sp., and Cerrena sp. The fungal-isolate Aspergillus spp. is a well-known agricultural pest in several reports. While Cerrena sp. was reported to be pathogenic in plants, including the family of Arecaceae. Overall, the data revealed a potential relationship between fungal infections and the dominant bacterial community in the rhizosphere of A. titanum. Additionally, this research may contribute to the development of microbe-based technology to mitigate diseases in A. titanum.
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- Sipriyadi Sipriyadi
- Department of Biology. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bengkulu University, Bengkulu, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Applied Microbiology, National Research and Innovation Agency, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
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- Faculty of Biotechnology, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Biology. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bengkulu University, Bengkulu, Indonesia
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- Department of Biology. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bengkulu University, Bengkulu, Indonesia
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Gao Y, Cheng H, Xiong B, Du H, Liu L, Imanaka T, Igarashi Y, Ma M, Wang D, Luo F. Biogeochemical transformation of mercury driven by microbes involved in anaerobic digestion of municipal wastewater. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 344:118640. [PMID: 37478720 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Revised: 06/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) with municipal wastewater contained heavy metal mercury (Hg) highly affects the utilization of activated sludge, and poses severe threat to the health of human beings. However, the biogeochemical transformation of Hg during AD remains unclear. Here, we investigated the biogeochemical transformation and environmental characteristics of Hg and the variations of dominant microbes during AD. The results showed that Hg(II) methylation is dominant in the early stage of AD, while methylmercury (MeHg) demethylation dominates in the later stage. Dissolved total Hg (DTHg) in the effluent sludge decreased with time, while THg levels enhanced to varying degrees at the final stage. Sulfate significant inhibits MeHg formation, reduces bioavailability of Hg(II) by microbes and thus inhibits Hg(II) methylation. Microbial community analysis reveals that strains in Methanosarcina and Aminobacterium from the class of Methanomicrobia, rather than Deltaproteobacteria, may be directly related to Hg(II) methylation and MeHg demethylation. Overall, this research provide insights into the biogeochemical transformation of Hg in the anaerobic digestion of municipal wastewater treatment. This work is beneficial for scientific treatment of municipal wastewater and effluent sludge, thus reducing the risk of MeHg to human beings.
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- Yuanqin Gao
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China.
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China; Center of Molecular Ecophysiology (CMEP), College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China.
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Biogenetics and Anaerobic Microecology, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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Hartman K, Schmid MW, Bodenhausen N, Bender SF, Valzano-Held AY, Schlaeppi K, van der Heijden MGA. A symbiotic footprint in the plant root microbiome. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOME 2023; 18:65. [PMID: 37525294 PMCID: PMC10391997 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-023-00521-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND A major aim in plant microbiome research is determining the drivers of plant-associated microbial communities. While soil characteristics and host plant identity present key drivers of root microbiome composition, it is still unresolved whether the presence or absence of important plant root symbionts also determines overall microbiome composition. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and N-fixing rhizobia bacteria are widespread, beneficial root symbionts that significantly enhance plant nutrition, plant health, and root structure. Thus, we hypothesized that symbiont types define the root microbiome structure. RESULTS We grew 17 plant species from five families differing in their symbiotic associations (no symbioses, AMF only, rhizobia only, or AMF and rhizobia) in a greenhouse and used bacterial and fungal amplicon sequencing to characterize their root microbiomes. Although plant phylogeny and species identity were the most important factors determining root microbiome composition, we discovered that the type of symbioses also presented a significant driver of diversity and community composition. We found consistent responses of bacterial phyla, including members of the Acidobacteria, Chlamydiae, Firmicutes, and Verrucomicrobia, to the presence or absence of AMF and rhizobia and identified communities of OTUs specifically enriched in the different symbiotic groups. A total of 80, 75 and 57 bacterial OTUs were specific for plant species without symbiosis, plant species forming associations with AMF or plant species associating with both AMF and rhizobia, respectively. Similarly, 9, 14 and 4 fungal OTUs were specific for these plant symbiont groups. Importantly, these generic symbiosis footprints in microbial community composition were also apparent in absence of the primary symbionts. CONCLUSION Our results reveal that symbiotic associations of the host plant leaves an imprint on the wider root microbiome - which we term the symbiotype. These findings suggest the existence of a fundamental assembly principle of root microbiomes, dependent on the symbiotic associations of the host plant.
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- Kyle Hartman
- Department of Agroecology and Environment, Plant Soil Interactions, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Agroscope, Zürich, 8046, Switzerland
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- Department of Agroecology and Environment, Plant Soil Interactions, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Agroscope, Zürich, 8046, Switzerland
- Department of Soil Sciences, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Frick, 5070, Switzerland
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- Department of Agroecology and Environment, Plant Soil Interactions, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Agroscope, Zürich, 8046, Switzerland
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- Department of Agroecology and Environment, Plant Soil Interactions, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Agroscope, Zürich, 8046, Switzerland
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- Department of Agroecology and Environment, Plant Soil Interactions, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Agroscope, Zürich, 8046, Switzerland.
- Plant Microbe Interactions, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, 4056, Switzerland.
- Institute of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Bern, Bern, 3013, Switzerland.
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- Department of Agroecology and Environment, Plant Soil Interactions, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Agroscope, Zürich, 8046, Switzerland.
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zürich, 8008, Switzerland.
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Vagelas I, Reizopoulou A, Exadactylos A, Madesis P, Karapetsi L, Michail G. Stalactites Core Prospect as Environmental "Microbial Ark": The Actinomycetota Diversity Paradigm, First Reported from a Greek Cave. Pol J Microbiol 2023; 72:155-168. [PMID: 37314357 DOI: 10.33073/pjm-2023-016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023] Open
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Speleothems found in caves worldwide are considered the natural libraries of paleontology. Bacteria found in these ecosystems are generally limited to Proteobacteria and Actinomycetota, but rare microbiome and "Dark Matter" is generally under-investigated and often neglected. This research article discusses, for the first time to our knowledge, the diachronic diversity of Actinomycetota entrapped inside a cave stalactite. The planet's environmental microbial community profile of different eras can be stored in these refugia (speleothems). These speleothems could be an environmental "Microbial Ark" storing rare microbiome and "Dark Matter" bacterial communities evermore.
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- Ioannis Vagelas
- 2Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
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- 1Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
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- 1Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
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- 3Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Plants, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
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- 3Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Plants, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
- 4Centre for Research and Technology (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), Thessaloniki, Greece
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- 1Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
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Kaur J, Harder CB, Sharma J. Congeneric temperate orchids recruit similar-yet differentially abundant-endophytic bacterial communities that are uncoupled from soil, but linked to host phenology and population size. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2023; 110:e16168. [PMID: 37052191 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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PREMISE Besides the beneficial plant-fungus symbiosis in mycorrhizal plants, bacteria also enhance plant fitness via tripartite interactions. While bacterial associations are presumably just as important for the obligate mycorrhizal family Orchidaceae, little is known about orchid associating bacteria (OAB). METHODS We examined the OAB communities of two, congeneric, terrestrial orchids, Platanthera cooperi and Platanthera praeclara, which represent widely disparate North American ecosystems. We tested whether they recruit distinct OAB communities, and whether variability in OAB communities can be linked to phenology, population size, or habitat soil. Genomic DNAs from roots of seedling, vegetative, and reproductive plants and from soil were subjected to Illumina sequencing of V4 and V5 regions of the 16S rRNA gene. RESULTS We obtained 809 OAB Zero-radius Operational Taxonomic Units (ZOTUs). Despite an overlap of 209 ZOTUs that accounted for >75% relative abundances of their respective OAB communities, the overall community structures of the two orchids were distinct. Within each orchid, distinctions were detected in the OAB communities of large and small populations and the three phenological stages. The OAB ZOTUs were either absent or present with low abundances in soil associated with both orchids. CONCLUSIONS The two orchids exhibited preferential recruitment of known growth-promoting OAB communities from soil. Their OAB communities also showed considerable overlap despite the large environmental and geographical separation of the two host taxa. Our results lend further support to the emerging evidence that not only the fungi, but root-associated bacteria also have functional importance for orchid ecology.
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- Jaspreet Kaur
- Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
- Department of Biology, MEMEG, Lund University, Ekologihuset, Sölvegatan, Sweden
- Department of Biology, Section of Terrestrial Ecology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
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Plant Community Associates with Rare Rather than Abundant Fungal Taxa in Alpine Grassland Soils. Appl Environ Microbiol 2023; 89:e0186222. [PMID: 36602328 PMCID: PMC9888191 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01862-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The importance of the rare microbial biosphere in maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions has been highlighted recently. However, the current understanding of the spatial distribution of rare microbial taxa is still limited, with only a few investigations for rare prokaryotes and virtually none for rare fungi. Here, we investigated the spatial patterns of rare and abundant fungal taxa in alpine grassland soils across 2,000 km of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. We found that most locally rare fungal taxa remained rare (13.07%) or were absent (82.85%) in other sites, whereas only a small proportion (4.06%) shifted between rare and abundant among sites. Although they differed in terms of diversity levels and compositions, the distance decay relationships of both the rare and the abundant fungal taxa were valid and displayed similar turnover rates. Moreover, the community assemblies of both rare and abundant fungal taxa were predominantly controlled by deterministic rather than stochastic processes. Notably, the community composition of rare rather than abundant fungal taxa associated with the plant community composition. In summary, this study advances our understanding of the biogeographic features of rare fungal taxa in alpine grasslands and highlights the concordance between plant communities and rare fungal subcommunities in soil. IMPORTANCE Our current understanding of the ecology and functions of rare microbial taxa largely relies on research conducted on prokaryotes. Despite the key ecological roles of soil fungi, little is known about the biogeographic patterns and drivers of rare and abundant fungi in soils. In this study, we investigated the spatial patterns of rare and abundant fungal taxa in Qinghai-Tibetan plateau (QTP) alpine grassland soils across 2,000 km, with a special concentration on the importance of the plant communities in shaping rare fungal taxa. We showed that rare fungal taxa generally had a biogeographic pattern that was similar to that of abundant fungal taxa in alpine grassland soils on the QTP. Furthermore, the plant community composition was strongly related to the community composition of rare taxa but not abundant taxa. In summary, this study significantly increases our biogeographic and ecological knowledge of rare fungal taxa in alpine grassland soils.
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Znój A, Gawor J, Gromadka R, Chwedorzewska KJ, Grzesiak J. Root-Associated Bacteria Community Characteristics of Antarctic Plants: Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis-a Comparison. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2022; 84:808-820. [PMID: 34661728 PMCID: PMC9622554 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-021-01891-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. and Deschampsia antarctica Desv. are the only Magnoliophyta to naturally colonize the Antarctic region. The reason for their sole presence in Antarctica is still debated as there is no definitive consensus on how only two unrelated flowering plants managed to establish breeding populations in this part of the world. In this study, we have explored and compared the rhizosphere and root-endosphere dwelling microbial community of C. quitensis and D. antarctica specimens sampled in maritime Antarctica from sites displaying contrasting edaphic characteristics. Bacterial phylogenetic diversity (high-throughput 16S rRNA gene fragment targeted sequencing) and microbial metabolic activity (Biolog EcoPlates) with a geochemical soil background were assessed. Gathered data showed that the microbiome of C. quitensis root system was mostly site-dependent, displaying different characteristics in each of the examined locations. This plant tolerated an active bacterial community only in severe conditions (salt stress and nutrient deprivation), while in other more favorable circumstances, it restricted microbial activity, with a possibility of microbivory-based nutrient acquisition. The microbial communities of D. antarctica showed a high degree of similarity between samples within a particular rhizocompartment. The grass' endosphere was significantly enriched in plant beneficial taxa of the family Rhizobiaceae, which displayed obligatory endophyte characteristics, suggesting that at least part of this community is transmitted vertically. Ultimately, the ecological success of C. quitensis and D. antarctica in Antarctica might be largely attributed to their associations and management of root-associated microbiota.
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- Anna Znój
- Department of Antarctic Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
- Botanical Garden-Center for Biological Diversity Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Prawdziwka 2, 02-973, Warsaw, Poland
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- Environmental Laboratory of DNA Sequencing and Synthesis, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Environmental Laboratory of DNA Sequencing and Synthesis, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Botany, Warsaw, University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Antarctic Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
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Bischofberger AM, Hall AR. Community Composition of Bacteria Isolated from Swiss Banknotes Varies Depending on Collection Environment. Mol Ecol 2022; 32:2619-2632. [PMID: 35377495 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Revised: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Humans interact constantly with surfaces and associated microbial communities in the environment. The factors shaping the composition of these communities are poorly understood: some proposed explanations emphasize the influence of local habitat conditions (niche-based explanations), while others point to geographic structure and the distance among sampled locations (dispersal-based explanations). However, the relative roles of these different drivers for microbial community assembly on human-associated surfaces are not clear. Here, we used a combination of sampling, sequencing (16S rRNA) and culturing to show that the composition of banknote-associated bacterial communities varies depending on the local collection environment. Using banknotes collected from various locations and types of shops across Switzerland, we found taxonomic diversity dominated by families such as Pseudomonadaceae and Staphylococcaceae, but with banknote samples from particular types of shops (especially butcher shops) having distinct community structure. By contrast, we found no evidence of geographic structure: similarity of community composition did not decrease with increasing distance among sampled locations. These results show that microbial communities associated with banknotes, one of the most commonly encountered and exchanged human-associated surfaces, can reflect the local environmental conditions (in this case, the type of shop), and the signal for this type of variation was stronger than that for geographic structure among the locations sampled here.
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Metagenomic analysis of bacterial communities of Wadi Namar Lake, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi J Biol Sci 2022; 29:3749-3758. [PMID: 35844383 PMCID: PMC9280250 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2022.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Wadi Namar lake is a new touristic attraction area in the south of Riyadh. Human activities around the lake may lead to changes in water quality with subsequent changes in microenvironment components including microbial diversity. The current study was designed to assess possible changes in bacterial communities of the water at Wadi Namar Lake. Therefore, water samples were collected from three different locations along the lake: L1 (no human activities, no plants), L2 (no human activity, some plants) and L3 (human activities, municipal wastes and some plants). The total DNA of the samples was extracted and subjected to 16S rDNA sequencing and metagenomic analysis; water pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS) as well as the concentration of Na+1, K+1, Cl−1 and total N were analysed. Metagenomic analysis showed variations in relative abundance of 17 phyla, 31 families, 43 genera and 19 species of bacteria between the locations. Proteobacteria was the most abundant phylum in all locations; however, its highest abundance was in L1. Planctomycete phylum was highly abundant in L1 and L3, while its abundance in L2 was low. The phyla Acidobacteria, Candidatus Saccharibacteria, Nitrospirae and Chloroflexi were associated with high TDS, EC, K+1 and Cl−1 concentrations in L3; various human activities around this location had possibly affected microbial diversity. Current study results help in recognising the structure of bacterial communities at Wadi Namar Lake in relation to their surroundings for planning to environment protection and future restoration of affected ecosystems.
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Xue Y, Jin T, Gao C, Li C, Zhou T, Wan D, Yang M. Effects of biodegradable film mulching on bacterial diversity in soils. Arch Microbiol 2022; 204:195. [PMID: 35217920 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-022-02799-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2021] [Revised: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The spread of biodegradable plastic films (BDFs) not only increases grain yield but also reduces environmental pollution from plastic film to a large extent. Soil microbes are considered to be involved in biodegradation processes. However, the study of microbe diversity in soil mulched with biodegradable plastic film remains limited. Here, we compared the diversity of microbes between soils with biodegradable film and nonbiodegradable film (NBDF) mulch. The results showed that BDFs affected total C, P and NH4+-N, especially organism C content, as well as microbe species richness (ACE; Chao1) and diversity (Simpson index; Shannon index). In terms of dominant phyla and genera, BDFs and NBDF can influence the abundance of disparate species. Furthermore, BDFs could also contribute to improving the richness of the important functional bacterial groups in soil, e.g., Pedomicrobium and Comamonas, both of which are involved in the degradation of plastic residues in soil. Finally, we found that BDFs improved the transformation of nitrogen by significantly increasing the abundances of Nitrobacter and Nitrospira. Our results highlight the impact of BDF mulch on the abundance of functional bacteria in the soil.
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- Yinghao Xue
- College of Land and Environment, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, China.,Rural Energy and Environment Agency, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 100125, China
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- Rural Energy and Environment Agency, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing, 100125, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Agricultural Ecology and Resource Protection Technology Extension Station of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- Agricultural Ecology and Resource Protection Technology Extension Station of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People's Republic of China.
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Bhattacharyya C, Imchen M, Mukherjee T, Haldar S, Mondal S, Mukherji S, Haldar A, Kumavath R, Ghosh A. Rhizosphere impact bacterial community structure in the tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze.) estates of Darjeeling, India. Environ Microbiol 2021; 24:2716-2731. [PMID: 34913573 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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India contributes 28% of the world's tea production, and the Darjeeling tea of India is a world-famous tea variety known for its unique quality, flavor, and aroma. This study analyzed the spatial distribution of bacterial communities in the tea rhizosphere of six different tea estates at different altitudes. The organic carbon, total nitrogen, and available phosphate were higher in the rhizosphere soils than the bulk soils, irrespective of the sites. Alpha and beta diversities were significantly (p<0.05) higher in the bulk soil than in the rhizosphere. Among the identified phyla, the predominant ones were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Acidobacteria. At the genus level, only 4 out of 23 predominant genera (>1% relative abundance) could be classified viz. Candidatus Solibacter (5.36±0.36%), Rhodoplanes (4.87±0.3%), Candidatus Koribacter (2.3±0.67%), Prevotella (1.49±0.26%). The rhizosphere effect was prominent evident from the significant depletion of more ASVs (n=39) compared to enrichment (n=11). The functional genes also exhibit a similar trend with the enrichment of N2 fixation genes, disease suppression, and Acetoine synthesis. Our study reports that the rhizobiome of tea is highly selective by reducing the alpha and beta diversity while enriching the significant functional genes. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Chandrima Bhattacharyya
- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12 C.I.T, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Genomic Science, School of Biological Sciences, Central University of Kerala, Tejaswini Hills, Periya P.O, Kasaragod, Kerala, 671316, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12 C.I.T, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Asutosh College, University, of Calcutta, Kolkata, 700026, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12 C.I.T, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12 C.I.T, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Geography, East Calcutta Girls' College, under West Bengal State University, Lake Town, Kolkata, 700089, India
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- Department of Genomic Science, School of Biological Sciences, Central University of Kerala, Tejaswini Hills, Periya P.O, Kasaragod, Kerala, 671316, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12 C.I.T, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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Michail G, Karapetsi L, Madesis P, Reizopoulou A, Vagelas I. Metataxonomic Analysis of Bacteria Entrapped in a Stalactite's Core and Their Possible Environmental Origins. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9122411. [PMID: 34946013 PMCID: PMC8705861 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9122411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Much is known about microbes originally identified in caves, but little is known about the entrapment of microbes (bacteria) in stalactites and their possible environmental origins. This study presents data regarding the significant environmental distribution of prokaryotic bacterial taxa of a Greek stalactite core. We investigated the involvement of those bacteria communities in stalactites using a metataxonomic analysis approach of partial 16S rRNA genes. The metataxonomic analysis of stalactite core material revealed an exceptionally broad ecological spectrum of bacteria classified as members of Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, Verrucomicrobia, and other unclassified bacteria. We concluded that (i) the bacterial transport process is possible through water movement from the upper ground cave environment, forming cave speleothems such as stalactites, (ii) bacterial genera such as Polaromonas, Thioprofundum, and phylum Verrucomicrobia trapped inside the stalactite support the paleoecology, paleomicrobiology, and paleoclimate variations, (iii) the entrapment of certain bacteria taxa associated with water, soil, animals, and plants such as Micrococcales, Propionibacteriales, Acidimicrobiales, Pseudonocardiales, and α-, β-, and γ-Proteobacteria.
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- George Michail
- Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, 38446 Volos, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Plants, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, 38446 Volos, Greece; (L.K.); (P.M.)
- Centre for Research and Technology (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Plants, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, 38446 Volos, Greece; (L.K.); (P.M.)
- Centre for Research and Technology (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, 38446 Volos, Greece;
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Ishiya K, Aburatani S. Multivariate statistical monitoring system for microbial population dynamics. Phys Biol 2021; 19. [PMID: 34788744 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ac3ad6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Microbiomes in their natural environments vary dynamically with changing environmental conditions. The detection of these dynamic changes in microbial populations is critical for understanding the impact of environmental changes on the microbial community. Here, we propose a novel method to detect time-series changes in the microbiome, based on multivariate statistical process control. By focusing on the interspecies structures, this approach enables the robust detection of time-series changes in a microbiome composed of a large number of microbial species. Applying this approach to empirical human gut microbiome data, we accurately traced time-series changes in microbiota composition induced by a dietary intervention trial. This method was also excellent for tracking the recovery process after the intervention. Our approach can be useful for monitoring dynamic changes in complex microbial communities.
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- Koji Ishiya
- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advance Industrial Science and Technology, 2-17-2-1 Tsukisamu-Higashi, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 062-8517, JAPAN
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- Computational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2-4-7 Aomi, Koto-ku,, Tokyo, Tokyo, 135-0064, JAPAN
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Cariño R, Takayasu L, Suda W, Masuoka H, Hirayama K, Konishi S, Umezaki M. The search for aliens within us: a review of evidence and theory regarding the foetal microbiome. Crit Rev Microbiol 2021; 48:611-623. [PMID: 34788162 DOI: 10.1080/1040841x.2021.1999903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The microbiome is believed to be established during the birthing process through exposure to the maternal microbiome and immediate external environment. The absence of a microbiome prior to birth is based on the sterile womb hypothesis, which was formulated at the beginning of the 20th century and is supported primarily by the culture-based approach in microbiological studies.Findings of bacterial presence in products of fertilization such as the placenta, amniotic fluid, foetal membranes, and umbilical cord blood in studies using next-generation DNA sequencing technologies began to challenge the sterile nature of the intrauterine environment during gestation. These studies have been mainly criticized by their approach to contamination and inconclusive evidence of viability. The implications of bacterial presence in utero are far reaching in medicine and basic sciences. If commensal bacteria exist in the foetus, antibiotic therapies in pregnancy particularly for asymptomatic cases will need to be re-evaluated. Experimental studies utilizing gnotobiology may also be impacted by a realignment of theory.This review of existing literature aims to provide insight into the existence of bacteria in utero, specifically the foetal microbiome through analysis of experimental evidence and theoretical concepts, and to suggest approaches that may further provide clarity into this inquiry.
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- Richard Cariño
- Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,Laboratory for Microbiome Sciences, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Laboratory for Microbiome Sciences, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Li Z, Bai X, Jiao S, Li Y, Li P, Yang Y, Zhang H, Wei G. A simplified synthetic community rescues Astragalus mongholicus from root rot disease by activating plant-induced systemic resistance. MICROBIOME 2021; 9:217. [PMID: 34732249 PMCID: PMC8567675 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01169-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Plant health and growth are negatively affected by pathogen invasion; however, plants can dynamically modulate their rhizosphere microbiome and adapt to such biotic stresses. Although plant-recruited protective microbes can be assembled into synthetic communities for application in the control of plant disease, rhizosphere microbial communities commonly contain some taxa at low abundance. The roles of low-abundance microbes in synthetic communities remain unclear; it is also unclear whether all the microbes enriched by plants can enhance host adaptation to the environment. Here, we assembled a synthetic community with a disease resistance function based on differential analysis of root-associated bacterial community composition. We further simplified the synthetic community and investigated the roles of low-abundance bacteria in the control of Astragalus mongholicus root rot disease by a simple synthetic community. RESULTS Fusarium oxysporum infection reduced bacterial Shannon diversity and significantly affected the bacterial community composition in the rhizosphere and roots of Astragalus mongholicus. Under fungal pathogen challenge, Astragalus mongholicus recruited some beneficial bacteria such as Stenotrophomonas, Achromobacter, Pseudomonas, and Flavobacterium to the rhizosphere and roots. We constructed a disease-resistant bacterial community containing 10 high- and three low-abundance bacteria enriched in diseased roots. After the joint selection of plants and pathogens, the complex synthetic community was further simplified into a four-species community composed of three high-abundance bacteria (Stenotrophomonas sp., Rhizobium sp., Ochrobactrum sp.) and one low-abundance bacterium (Advenella sp.). Notably, a simple community containing these four strains and a thirteen-species community had similar effects on the control root rot disease. Furthermore, the simple community protected plants via a synergistic effect of highly abundant bacteria inhibiting fungal pathogen growth and less abundant bacteria activating plant-induced systemic resistance. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that bacteria with low abundance play an important role in synthetic communities and that only a few bacterial taxa enriched in diseased roots are associated with disease resistance. Therefore, the construction and simplification of synthetic communities found in the present study could be a strategy employed by plants to adapt to environmental stress. Video abstract.
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- Zhefei Li
- State key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China.
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- State key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China.
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de Medeiros Azevedo T, Aburjaile FF, Ferreira-Neto JRC, Pandolfi V, Benko-Iseppon AM. The endophytome (plant-associated microbiome): methodological approaches, biological aspects, and biotech applications. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 37:206. [PMID: 34708327 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-021-03168-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Similar to other organisms, plants establish interactions with a variety of microorganisms in their natural environment. The plant microbiome occupies the host plant's tissues, either internally or on its surfaces, showing interactions that can assist in its growth, development, and adaptation to face environmental stresses. The advance of metagenomics and metatranscriptomics approaches has strongly driven the study and recognition of plant microbiome impacts. Research in this regard provides comprehensive information about the taxonomic and functional aspects of microbial plant communities, contributing to a better understanding of their dynamics. Evidence of the plant microbiome's functional potential has boosted its exploitation to develop more ecological and sustainable agricultural practices that impact human health. Although microbial inoculants' development and use are promising to revolutionize crop production, interdisciplinary studies are needed to identify new candidates and promote effective practical applications. On the other hand, there are challenges in understanding and analyzing complex data generated within a plant microbiome project's scope. This review presents aspects about the complex structuring and assembly of the microbiome in the host plant's tissues, metagenomics, and metatranscriptomics approaches for its understanding, covering descriptions of recent studies concerning metagenomics to characterize the microbiome of non-model plants under different aspects. Studies involving bio-inoculants, isolated from plant microbial communities, capable of assisting in crops' productivity, are also reviewed.
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- Thamara de Medeiros Azevedo
- Departamento de Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235 - Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil.
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Rajulu MBG, Suryanarayanan TS, Murali TS, Thirunavukkarasu N, Venkatesan G. Minor species of foliar fungal endophyte communities: do they matter? Mycol Prog 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s11557-021-01740-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Persistent microbiome members in the common bean rhizosphere: an integrated analysis of space, time, and plant genotype. THE ISME JOURNAL 2021; 15:2708-2722. [PMID: 33772106 PMCID: PMC8397763 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00955-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2020] [Revised: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The full potential of managing microbial communities to support plant health is yet-unrealized, in part because it remains difficult to ascertain which members are most important for the plant. However, microbes that consistently associate with a plant species across varied field conditions and over plant development likely engage with the host or host environment. Here, we applied abundance-occupancy concepts from macroecology to quantify the core membership of bacterial/archaeal and fungal communities in the rhizosphere of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Our study investigated the microbiome membership that persisted over multiple dimensions important for plant agriculture, including major U.S. growing regions (Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, and Washington), plant development, annual plantings, and divergent genotypes, and also included re-analysis of public data from beans grown in Colombia. We found 48 core bacterial taxa that were consistently detected in all samples, inclusive of all datasets and dimensions. This suggests reliable enrichment of these taxa to the plant environment and time-independence of their association with the plant. More generally, the breadth of ecologically important dimensions included in this work (space, time, host genotype, and management) provides an example of how to systematically identify the most stably-associated microbiome members, and can be applied to other hosts or systems.
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Passarini MRZ, Moreira JVF, Gomez JAM, Bonugli-Santos RC. DNA metabarcoding of the leachate microbiota from sanitary landfill: potential for bioremediation process. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:4847-4858. [PMID: 34228134 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-021-02471-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Leachate generation contains a variety of toxic compounds, and is a major problem for municipal solid waste (MSW). Microbial profile knowledge is essential to new alternatives and improvements in current treatments of these effluents. In this respect, the microbial community in the leachate from the sanitary landfill of the city of Foz do Iguaçu was analyzed. The 16S rDNA metabarcoding suggested the dominance of fermenting bacteria belonging to Firmicutes phylum, followed by Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Synergistetes. The most abundant genera were Sedimentibacter, Vulcanibacillus, and Anaerovorax. However, 60% of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) were not classified taxonomically. In addition, an expressive abundance was attributed to the superphylum known as PVC group, little studied and with unknown scientific potential. The leachate acidogenic phase was masked in the chemical and physical analyzes. Nevertheless, it was evidenced in the metabarcoding methodology. No specifically methanogenic group was detected in significant abundance. Therefore, from bacterial community identification, a bioremediation process can be designed. Enriched culture media can be developed and targeted to the recovery of specific groups which may be involved in leachate biodegradation. What is more, the results expand the knowledge of bacterial diversity, especially from the presence of unknown genera in this habitat.
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- Michel Rodrigo Zambrano Passarini
- Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil
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- Institute Latin American of Nature and Life Sciences (ILACNV), Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences (CICV), Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), 1000 Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos Av., Jardim Universitário, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, 85870-901, Brazil.
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Thomas FA, Mohan M, Krishnan KP. Bacterial diversity and their metabolic profiles in the sedimentary environments of Ny-Ålesund, Arctic. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:1339-1360. [PMID: 34148162 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-021-01604-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Sedimentary environments in the Arctic are known to harbor diverse microbial communities playing a crucial role in the remineralization of organic matter and associated biogeochemical cycles. In this study, we used a combination of culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches to understanding the bacterial community composition associated with the sediments of a terrestrial versus fjord system in the Svalbard Arctic. Community-level metabolic profiling and growth response of retrieved bacterial isolates towards different carbon substrates at varying temperatures were also studied to assess the metabolic response of communities and isolates in the system. Bacterial species belonging to Cryobacterium and Psychrobacter dominated the terrestrial and fjord sediment retrievable fraction. Amplicon sequencing analysis revealed higher bacterial diversity in the terrestrial sediments (Shannon index; 8.135 and 7.935) as compared to the fjord sediments (4.5-5.37). Phylum Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes dominated both terrestrial and fjord sediments. Phylum Verrucomicrobia and Cyanobacteria were abundant in terrestrial sediments while Epsilonbacteraeota and Fusobacteriia dominated the fjord sediments. Significant differences were observed in the carbon substrate utilization profiles between the terrestrial and fjord sediments at both 4 °C and 20 °C incubations (p < 0.005). Utilization of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, D-mannitol and Tween-80 by the sediment communities and bacterial isolates from both systems, irrespective of their temperature incubations implies the affinity of bacteria for such substrates as energy sources and for their survival in cold environments. Our results suggest the ability of sediment bacterial communities to adjust their substrate utilization profiles according to condition changes in the ecosystems and are found to be less influenced by their phylogenetic relatedness.
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- Femi Anna Thomas
- National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Headland Sada, Vasco da Gama, Goa, 403804, India
- School of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau Goa, 403206, India
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- School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 686560, India
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- National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Headland Sada, Vasco da Gama, Goa, 403804, India.
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Santoyo G, Urtis-Flores CA, Loeza-Lara PD, Orozco-Mosqueda MDC, Glick BR. Rhizosphere Colonization Determinants by Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR). BIOLOGY 2021; 10:biology10060475. [PMID: 34072072 PMCID: PMC8229920 DOI: 10.3390/biology10060475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Simple Summary Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are an eco-friendly alternative to the use of chemicals in agricultural production and crop protection. However, the efficacy of PGPR as bioinoculants can be diminished by a low capacity to colonize spaces in the rhizosphere. In this work, we review pioneering and recent developments on several important functions that rhizobacteria exhibit in order to compete, colonize, and establish themselves in the plant rhizosphere. Therefore, the use of highly competitive strains in open field trials should be a priority, in order to have consistent and better results in agricultural production activities. Abstract The application of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in the field has been hampered by a number of gaps in the knowledge of the mechanisms that improve plant growth, health, and production. These gaps include (i) the ability of PGPR to colonize the rhizosphere of plants and (ii) the ability of bacterial strains to thrive under different environmental conditions. In this review, different strategies of PGPR to colonize the rhizosphere of host plants are summarized and the advantages of having highly competitive strains are discussed. Some mechanisms exhibited by PGPR to colonize the rhizosphere include recognition of chemical signals and nutrients from root exudates, antioxidant activities, biofilm production, bacterial motility, as well as efficient evasion and suppression of the plant immune system. Moreover, many PGPR contain secretion systems and produce antimicrobial compounds, such as antibiotics, volatile organic compounds, and lytic enzymes that enable them to restrict the growth of potentially phytopathogenic microorganisms. Finally, the ability of PGPR to compete and successfully colonize the rhizosphere should be considered in the development and application of bioinoculants.
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- Gustavo Santoyo
- Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia 58030, Mexico;
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia 58030, Mexico;
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- Licenciatura en Genómica Alimentaria, Universidad de La Ciénega del Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo, Sahuayo 59103, Mexico;
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- Facultad de Agrobiología “Presidente Juárez”, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Melchor Ocampo, Uruapan 60170, Mexico;
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- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada;
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Pascoal F, Costa R, Magalhães C. The microbial rare biosphere: current concepts, methods and ecological principles. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2021; 97:5974270. [PMID: 33175111 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Our ability to describe the highly diverse pool of low abundance populations present in natural microbial communities is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Yet we currently lack an integrative view of the key taxa, functions and metabolic activity which make-up this communal pool, usually referred to as the 'rare biosphere', across the domains of life. In this context, this review examines the microbial rare biosphere in its broader sense, providing an historical perspective on representative studies which enabled to bridge the concept from macroecology to microbial ecology. It then addresses our current knowledge of the prokaryotic rare biosphere, and covers emerging insights into the ecology, taxonomy and evolution of low abundance microeukaryotic, viral and host-associated communities. We also review recent methodological advances and provide a synthetic overview on how the rare biosphere fits into different conceptual models used to explain microbial community assembly mechanisms, composition and function.
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- Francisco Pascoal
- Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixoes, Avenida General Norton de Matos, S/N, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal
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- Department of Bioengineering, Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (iBB), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal.,Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal.,U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 1 Cyclotron Road, CA 94720, USA.,Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, CA 94720 Berkeley, USA
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- Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixoes, Avenida General Norton de Matos, S/N, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal.,Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal.,School of Science, University of Waikato, Gate 1, Knighton Road 3240, Hamilton, New Zealand.,Ocean Frontier Institute, Dalhousie University, Steele Ocean Sciences Building, Dalhousie University 1355 Oxford St., B3H4R2 Halifax, NS, Canada
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Ahmad T, Gupta G, Sharma A, Kaur B, El-Sheikh MA, Alyemeni MN. Metagenomic analysis exploring taxonomic and functional diversity of bacterial communities of a Himalayan urban fresh water lake. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0248116. [PMID: 33764980 PMCID: PMC7993826 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Freshwater lakes present an ecological border between humans and a variety of host organisms. The present study was designed to evaluate the microbiota composition and distribution in Dal Lake at Srinagar, India. The non-chimeric sequence reads were classified taxonomically into 49 phyla, 114 classes, 185 orders, 244 families and 384 genera. Proteobacteria was found to be the most abundant bacterial phylum in all the four samples. The highest number of observed species was found to be 3097 in sample taken from least populated area during summer (LPS) whereas the summer sample from highly populated area (HPS) was found most diverse among all as indicated by taxonomic diversity analysis. The QIIME output files were used for PICRUSt analysis to assign functional attributes. The samples exhibited a significant difference in their microbial community composition and structure. Comparative analysis of functional pathways indicated that the anthropogenic activities in populated areas and higher summer temperature, both decrease functional potential of the Lake microbiota. This is probably the first study to demonstrate the comparative taxonomic diversity and functional composition of an urban freshwater lake amid its highly populated and least populated areas during two extreme seasons (winter and summer).
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- Tawseef Ahmad
- Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjabi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjabi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjabi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjabi, India
- * E-mail: (BK); (MNA)
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- Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- * E-mail: (BK); (MNA)
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Murphy R, Benndorf R, de Beer ZW, Vollmers J, Kaster AK, Beemelmanns C, Poulsen M. Comparative Genomics Reveals Prophylactic and Catabolic Capabilities of Actinobacteria within the Fungus-Farming Termite Symbiosis. mSphere 2021; 6:e01233-20. [PMID: 33658277 PMCID: PMC8546716 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.01233-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Actinobacteria, one of the largest bacterial phyla, are ubiquitous in many of Earth's ecosystems and often act as defensive symbionts with animal hosts. Members of the phylum have repeatedly been isolated from basidiomycete-cultivating fungus-farming termites that maintain a monoculture fungus crop on macerated dead plant substrate. The proclivity for antimicrobial and enzyme production of Actinobacteria make them likely contributors to plant decomposition and defense in the symbiosis. To test this, we analyzed the prophylactic (biosynthetic gene cluster [BGC]) and metabolic (carbohydrate-active enzyme [CAZy]) potential in 16 (10 existing and six new genomes) termite-associated Actinobacteria and compared these to the soil-dwelling close relatives. Using antiSMASH, we identified 435 BGCs, of which 329 (65 unique) were similar to known compound gene clusters, while 106 were putatively novel, suggesting ample prospects for novel compound discovery. BGCs were identified among all major compound categories, including 26 encoding the production of known antimicrobial compounds, which ranged in activity (antibacterial being most prevalent) and modes of action that might suggest broad defensive potential. Peptide pattern recognition analysis revealed 823 (43 unique) CAZymes coding for enzymes that target key plant and fungal cell wall components (predominantly chitin, cellulose, and hemicellulose), confirming a substantial degradative potential of these bacteria. Comparison of termite-associated and soil-dwelling bacteria indicated no significant difference in either BGC or CAZy potential, suggesting that the farming termite hosts may have coopted these soil-dwelling bacteria due to their metabolic potential but that they have not been subject to genome change associated with symbiosis.IMPORTANCEActinobacteria have repeatedly been isolated in fungus-farming termites, and our genome analyses provide insights into the potential roles they may serve in defense and for plant biomass breakdown. These insights, combined with their relatively higher abundances in fungus combs than in termite gut, suggest that they are more likely to play roles in fungus combs than in termite guts. Up to 25% of the BGCs we identify have no similarity to known clusters, indicating a large potential for novel chemistry to be discovered. Similarities in metabolic potential of soil-dwelling and termite-associated bacteria suggest that they have environmental origins, but their consistent presence with the termite system suggests their importance for the symbiosis.
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- Robert Murphy
- University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Copenhagen East, Denmark
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agriculture Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Institute for Biological Interfaces (IBG 5), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute for Biological Interfaces (IBG 5), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany
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- University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Copenhagen East, Denmark
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Comparative Fungal Community Analyses Using Metatranscriptomics and Internal Transcribed Spacer Amplicon Sequencing from Norway Spruce. mSystems 2021; 6:6/1/e00884-20. [PMID: 33594001 PMCID: PMC8573963 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00884-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The health, growth, and fitness of boreal forest trees are impacted and improved by their associated microbiomes. Microbial gene expression and functional activity can be assayed with RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) data from host samples. In contrast, phylogenetic marker gene amplicon sequencing data are used to assess taxonomic composition and community structure of the microbiome. Few studies have considered how much of this structural and taxonomic information is included in transcriptomic data from matched samples. Here, we described fungal communities using both host-derived RNA-Seq and fungal ITS1 DNA amplicon sequencing to compare the outcomes between the methods. We used a panel of root and needle samples from the coniferous tree species Picea abies (Norway spruce) growing in untreated (nutrient-deficient) and nutrient-enriched plots at the Flakaliden forest research site in boreal northern Sweden. We show that the relationship between samples and alpha and beta diversity indicated by the fungal transcriptome is in agreement with that generated by the ITS data, while also identifying a lack of taxonomic overlap due to limitations imposed by current database coverage. Furthermore, we demonstrate how metatranscriptomics data additionally provide biologically informative functional insights. At the community level, there were changes in starch and sucrose metabolism, biosynthesis of amino acids, and pentose and glucuronate interconversions, while processing of organic macromolecules, including aromatic and heterocyclic compounds, was enriched in transcripts assigned to the genus Cortinarius. IMPORTANCE A deeper understanding of microbial communities associated with plants is revealing their importance for plant health and productivity. RNA extracted from plant field samples represents the host and other organisms present. Typically, gene expression studies focus on the plant component or, in a limited number of studies, expression in one or more associated organisms. However, metatranscriptomic data are rarely used for taxonomic profiling, which is currently performed using amplicon approaches. We created an assembly-based, reproducible, and hardware-agnostic workflow to taxonomically and functionally annotate fungal RNA-Seq data obtained from Norway spruce roots, which we compared to matching ITS amplicon sequencing data. While we identified some limitations and caveats, we show that functional, taxonomic, and compositional insights can all be obtained from RNA-Seq data. These findings highlight the potential of metatranscriptomics to advance our understanding of interaction, response, and effect between host plants and their associated microbial communities.
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Miller C, Bates ST, Gielda LM, Creighton JC. The role of parental care in the establishment of the offspring digestive tract microbiome in Nicrophorus defodiens. Anim Behav 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Brunel C, Pouteau R, Dawson W, Pester M, Ramirez KS, van Kleunen M. Towards Unraveling Macroecological Patterns in Rhizosphere Microbiomes. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 25:1017-1029. [PMID: 32467065 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.04.015] [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: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 04/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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It is generally accepted that plants locally influence the composition and activity of their rhizosphere microbiome, and that rhizosphere community assembly further involves a hierarchy of constraints with varying strengths across spatial and temporal scales. However, our knowledge of rhizosphere microbiomes is largely based on single-location and time-point studies. Consequently, it remains difficult to predict patterns at large landscape scales, and we lack a clear understanding of how the rhizosphere microbiome forms and is maintained by drivers beyond the influence of the plant. By synthesizing recent literature and collating data on rhizosphere microbiomes, we point out the opportunities and challenges offered by advances in molecular biology, bioinformatics, and data availability. Specifically, we highlight the use of exact sequence variants, coupled with existing and newly generated data to decipher the rules of rhizosphere community assembly across large spatial and taxonomic scales.
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- Caroline Brunel
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, 318000 Taizhou, China; IRD, IPME, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394, Montpellier, France.
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, 318000 Taizhou, China; AMAP, IRD, CNRS, CIRAD, INRA, Université de Montpellier, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstr. 7B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany; Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute for Microbiology, Spielmannstrasse 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708, PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands; University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Biological Sciences, 500 W University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, 318000 Taizhou, China; Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
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Carroll D, Holden N, Gifford ML, Dupuy LX. Framework for Quantification of the Dynamics of Root Colonization by Pseudomonas fluorescens Isolate SBW25. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:585443. [PMID: 33101260 PMCID: PMC7545031 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.585443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Colonization of the root surface, or rhizoplane, is one of the first steps for soil-borne bacteria to become established in the plant microbiome. However, the relative contributions of processes, such as bacterial attachment and proliferation is not well characterized, and this limits our ability to comprehend the complex dynamics of microbial communities in the rhizosphere. The work presented here addresses this knowledge gap. A model system was developed to acquire quantitative data on the colonization process of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. cultivar. All Year Round) roots by Pseudomonas fluorescens isolate SBW25. A theoretical framework is proposed to calculate attachment rate and quantify the relative contribution of bacterial attachment to colonization. This allows the assessment of attachment rates on the root surface beyond the short time period during which it can be quantified experimentally. All techniques proposed are generic and similar analyses could be applied to study various combinations of plants and bacteria, or to assess competition between species. In the future this could allow for selection of microbial traits that improve early colonization and maintenance of targeted isolates in cropping systems, with potential applications for the development of biological fertilizers.
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- Daire Carroll
- Ecological Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom.,School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Northern Faculty, Scotland's Rural College, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.,Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Neiker, Department of Conservation of Natural Resources, Derio, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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Vidanaarachchi R, Shaw M, Tang SL, Halgamuge S. IMPARO: inferring microbial interactions through parameter optimisation. BMC Mol Cell Biol 2020; 21:34. [PMID: 32814564 PMCID: PMC7436957 DOI: 10.1186/s12860-020-00269-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Microbial Interaction Networks (MINs) provide important information for understanding bacterial communities. MINs can be inferred by examining microbial abundance profiles. Abundance profiles are often interpreted with the Lotka Volterra model in research. However existing research fails to consider a biologically meaningful underlying mathematical model for MINs or to address the possibility of multiple solutions. RESULTS In this paper we present IMPARO, a method for inferring microbial interactions through parameter optimisation. We use biologically meaningful models for both the abundance profile, as well as the MIN. We show how multiple MINs could be inferred with similar reconstructed abundance profile accuracy, and argue that a unique solution is not always satisfactory. Using our method, we successfully inferred clear interactions in the gut microbiome which have been previously observed in in-vitro experiments. CONCLUSIONS IMPARO was used to successfully infer microbial interactions in human microbiome samples as well as in a varied set of simulated data. The work also highlights the importance of considering multiple solutions for MINs.
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- Rajith Vidanaarachchi
- Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University, Acton, 2601 Australia
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- Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University, Acton, 2601 Australia
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nan-Kang, Taipei, 11529 Taiwan
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- Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University, Acton, 2601 Australia
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Australia
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Schneijderberg M, Cheng X, Franken C, de Hollander M, van Velzen R, Schmitz L, Heinen R, Geurts R, van der Putten WH, Bezemer TM, Bisseling T. Quantitative comparison between the rhizosphere effect of Arabidopsis thaliana and co-occurring plant species with a longer life history. ISME JOURNAL 2020; 14:2433-2448. [PMID: 32641729 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0695-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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As a model for genetic studies, Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) offers great potential to unravel plant genome-related mechanisms that shape the root microbiome. However, the fugitive life history of this species might have evolved at the expense of investing in capacity to steer an extensive rhizosphere effect. To determine whether the rhizosphere effect of Arabidopsis is different from other plant species that have a less fugitive life history, we compared the root microbiome of Arabidopsis to eight other, later succession plant species from the same habitat. The study included molecular analysis of soil, rhizosphere, and endorhizosphere microbiome both from the field and from a laboratory experiment. Molecular analysis revealed that the rhizosphere effect (as quantified by the number of enriched and depleted bacterial taxa) was ~35% lower than the average of the other eight species. Nevertheless, there are numerous microbial taxa differentially abundant between soil and rhizosphere, and they represent for a large part the rhizosphere effects of the other plants. In the case of fungal taxa, the number of differentially abundant taxa in the Arabidopsis rhizosphere is 10% of the other species' average. In the plant endorhizosphere, which is generally more selective, the rhizosphere effect of Arabidopsis is comparable to other species, both for bacterial and fungal taxa. Taken together, our data imply that the rhizosphere effect of the Arabidopsis is smaller in the rhizosphere, but equal in the endorhizosphere when compared to plant species with a less fugitive life history.
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- Martinus Schneijderberg
- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.,Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.,Institute of Biology, Section Plant Ecology and Phytochemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9505, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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The taxonomic and functional diversity inherent to the soil microbiome complicate assessments of the metabolic potential carried out by the community members. An alternative approach is to break down the soil microbiome into reduced-complexity subsets based on metabolic capacities (functional modules) prior to sequencing and analysis. Here, we demonstrate that this approach successfully identified specific phylogenetic and biochemical traits of the soil microbiome that otherwise remained hidden from a more top-down analysis. The soil microbiome represents one of the most complex microbial communities on the planet, encompassing thousands of taxa and metabolic pathways, rendering holistic analyses computationally intensive and difficult. Here, we developed an alternative approach in which the complex soil microbiome was broken into components (“functional modules”), based on metabolic capacities, for individual characterization. We hypothesized that reproducible, low-complexity communities that represent functional modules could be obtained through targeted enrichments and that, in combination, they would encompass a large extent of the soil microbiome diversity. Enrichments were performed on a starting soil inoculum with defined media based on specific carbon substrates, antibiotics, alternative electron acceptors under anaerobic conditions, or alternative growing conditions reflective of common field stresses. The resultant communities were evaluated through 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. Less permissive modules (anaerobic conditions, complex polysaccharides, and certain stresses) resulted in more distinct community profiles with higher richness and more variability between replicates, whereas modules with simple substrates were dominated by fewer species and were more reproducible. Collectively, approximately 27% of unique taxa present in the liquid soil extract control were found across functional modules. Taxa that were underrepresented or undetected in the source soil were also enriched across the modules. Metatranscriptomic analyses were carried out on a subset of the modules to investigate differences in functional gene expression. These results demonstrate that by dissecting the soil microbiome into discrete components it is possible to obtain a more comprehensive view of the soil microbiome and its biochemical potential than would be possible using more holistic analyses.
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Ma S, De Frenne P, Boon N, Brunet J, Cousins SAO, Decocq G, Kolb A, Lemke I, Liira J, Naaf T, Orczewska A, Plue J, Wulf M, Verheyen K. Plant species identity and soil characteristics determine rhizosphere soil bacteria community composition in European temperate forests. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 95:5485637. [PMID: 31054240 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiz063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 05/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Soil bacteria and understorey plants interact and drive forest ecosystem functioning. Yet, knowledge about biotic and abiotic factors that affect the composition of the bacterial community in the rhizosphere of understorey plants is largely lacking. Here, we assessed the effects of plant species identity (Milium effusum vs. Stachys sylvatica), rhizospheric soil characteristics, large-scale environmental conditions (temperature, precipitation and nitrogen (N) deposition), and land-use history (ancient vs. recent forests) on bacterial community composition in rhizosphere soil in temperate forests along a 1700 km latitudinal gradient in Europe. The dominant bacterial phyla in the rhizosphere soil of both plant species were Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria. Bacterial community composition differed significantly between the two plant species. Within plant species, soil chemistry was the most important factor determining soil bacterial community composition. More precisely, soil acidity correlated with the presence of multiple phyla, e.g. Acidobacteria (negatively), Chlamydiae (negatively) and Nitrospirae (positively), in both plant species. Large-scale environmental conditions were only important in S. sylvatica and land-use history was not important in either of the plant species. The observed role of understorey plant species identity and rhizosphere soil characteristics in determining soil bacterial community composition extends our understanding of plant-soil bacteria interactions in forest ecosystem functioning.
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- Shiyu Ma
- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090 Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090 Gontrode, Belgium
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Department of Environment, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sundsvägen 5, 23053 Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Plant Biodiversity Lab, University of Picardy Jules Verne, 1 rue des Louvels, 80037 Amiens, France
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- Vegetation Ecology and Conservation Biology, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry (FB 02), University of Bremen, Bibliothekstraße 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany
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- Vegetation Ecology and Conservation Biology, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry (FB 02), University of Bremen, Bibliothekstraße 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia
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- Biotic Interactions between Forest and Agricultural Land, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Bankowa 9, 40032 Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.,School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University. Alfred Nobels allé 7 Flemingsberg, 14189 Huddinge, Sweden
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- Biotic Interactions between Forest and Agricultural Land, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090 Gontrode, Belgium
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Qu Q, Zhang Z, Peijnenburg WJGM, Liu W, Lu T, Hu B, Chen J, Chen J, Lin Z, Qian H. Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly and Its Impact on Plant Growth. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2020; 68:5024-5038. [PMID: 32255613 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c00073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Microorganisms colonizing the plant rhizosphere provide a number of beneficial functions for their host. Although an increasing number of investigations clarified the great functional capabilities of rhizosphere microbial communities, the understanding of the precise mechanisms underlying the impact of rhizosphere microbiome assemblies is still limited. Also, not much is known about the various beneficial functions of the rhizosphere microbiome. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge of biotic and abiotic factors that shape the rhizosphere microbiome as well as the rhizosphere microbiome traits that are beneficial to plants growth and disease-resistance. We give particular emphasis on the impact of plant root metabolites on rhizosphere microbiome assemblies and on how the microbiome contributes to plant growth, yield, and disease-resistance. Finally, we introduce a new perspective and a novel method showing how a synthetic microbial community construction provides an effective approach to unravel the plant-microbes and microbes-microbes interplays.
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- Qian Qu
- College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, P.R. China
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- College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, P.R. China
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Center for Safety of Substances and Products, P.O. Box 1, 3720BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, P.R. China
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- College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, P.R. China
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. China
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- College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, P.R. China
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- College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P.R. China
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- College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, P.R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, P.R. China
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Garcia-Mazcorro JF, Minamoto Y, Kawas JR, Suchodolski JS, de Vos WM. Akkermansia and Microbial Degradation of Mucus in Cats and Dogs: Implications to the Growing Worldwide Epidemic of Pet Obesity. Vet Sci 2020; 7:vetsci7020044. [PMID: 32326394 PMCID: PMC7355976 DOI: 10.3390/vetsci7020044] [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: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Akkermansia muciniphila is a mucin-degrading bacterium that has shown the potential to provide anti-inflammatory and anti-obesity effects in mouse and man. We here focus on companion animals, specifically cats and dogs, and evaluate the microbial degradation of mucus and its health impact in the context of the worldwide epidemic of pet obesity. A literature survey revealed that the two presently known Akkermansia spp., A. muciniphila and A. glycaniphila, as well as other members of the phylum of Verrucomicrobia seem to be neither very prevalent nor abundant in the digestive tract of cats and dog. While this may be due to methodological aspects, it suggests that bacteria related to Akkermansia are not the major mucus degraders in these pets and hence other mucus-utilizing taxa may deserve attention. Hence, we will discuss the potential of these endogenous mucus utilizers and dietary interventions to boost these as well as the use of Akkermansia spp. related bacteria or their components as strategies to target feline and canine obesity.
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- Jose F. Garcia-Mazcorro
- Research and Development, MNA de Mexico, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon 66477, Mexico
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +52-81-8850-5204
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- Faculty of Agronomy, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, General Escobedo, Nuevo Leon 66050, Mexico;
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- Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4474, USA;
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands;
- Human Microbiome Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 63, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Exogenous phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria changed the rhizosphere microbial community indirectly. 3 Biotech 2020; 10:164. [PMID: 32206498 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-020-2099-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) have been widely used as biological fertilizer. However, its impact on the local microbial community has less been known. In this study, a mixture of PSB was inoculated into the tomato growth alone or combined with manure fertilizer. The growth parameter results showed that the combination use of PSB and compost could significantly increase the tomato growth and yield. The use of PSB could significantly increase pH, available phosphorus and several kinds of trace elements both in the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil. The quantitative PCR and high-throughput sequencing results showed that the inoculated PSB did not become the dominant strains in the rhizosphere. However, the soil bacterial community structure was changed. The relative abundance of several indigenous bacteria, such as Pseudomonas, decreased, while the population of several bacteria, including Bacillus, Anaerolineaceae, Cytophagaceae, and Gemmationadaceae, increased. The redundancy analysis result showed that the soil properties had a great influence on the indigenous microbial community. In conclusion, the inoculated PSB could not colonize in the soil with a single inoculation. The PSB secreted small molecular organic acids to dissolve inorganic phosphorus and changed the soil properties, which changed the rhizosphere microbial community indirectly.
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Araya JP, González M, Cardinale M, Schnell S, Stoll A. Microbiome Dynamics Associated With the Atacama Flowering Desert. Front Microbiol 2020; 10:3160. [PMID: 32038589 PMCID: PMC6990129 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.03160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 12/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In a desert, plants as holobionts quickly respond to resource pulses like precipitation. However, little is known on how environment and plants modulate the rhizosphere-associated microbiome. As a model species to represent the Atacama Desert bloom, Cistanthe longiscapa (Montiaceae family) was selected to study the influence of abiotic and biotic environment on the diversity and structure of the microbiota associated to its rhizosphere. We analyzed the rhizosphere and soil microbiome along a North-South precipitation gradient and between a dry and rainy year by using Illumina high−throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments and ITS2 regions for prokaryotes and fungi, respectively. In the rhizosphere of C. longiscapa the microbiota clearly differs in composition and structure from the surrounding bulk soil. The fungal and bacterial communities respond differently to environmental conditions. The diversity and richness of fungal OTUs were negatively correlated with aridity, as predicted. The community structure was predominantly influenced by other soil characteristics (pH, organic matter content) but not by aridity. In contrast, diversity, composition, and structure of the bacterial community were not influenced by aridity or any other evaluated soil parameter. These findings coincide with the identification of mainly site-specific microbial communities, not shared along the sites. These local communities contain a group of OTUs, which are exclusive to the rhizosphere of each site and presumably vertically inherited as seed endophytes. Their ecological functions and dispersal mechanisms remain unclear. The analysis of co-occurrence patterns highlights the strong effect of the desert habitat over the soil- and rhizosphere-microbiome. The site-independent enrichment of only a small bacterial cluster consistently associated with the rhizosphere of C. longiscapa further supports this conclusion. In a rainy year, the rhizosphere microbiota significantly differed from bulk and bare soil, whereas in a dry year, the community structure of the former rhizosphere approximates to the one found in the bulk. In the context of plant–microbe interactions in desert environments, our study contributes new insights into the importance of aridity in microbial community structure and composition, discovering the influence of other soil parameters in this complex dynamic network, which needs further to be investigated.
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- Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas, La Serena, Chile
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.,Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas, La Serena, Chile.,Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinario en Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
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Eigemann F, Vogts A, Voss M, Zoccarato L, Schulz-Vogt H. Distinctive tasks of different cyanobacteria and associated bacteria in carbon as well as nitrogen fixation and cycling in a late stage Baltic Sea bloom. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0223294. [PMID: 31830057 PMCID: PMC6907833 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Cyanobacteria and associated heterotrophic bacteria hold key roles in carbon as well as nitrogen fixation and cycling in the Baltic Sea due to massive cyanobacterial blooms each summer. The species specific activities of different cyanobacterial species as well as the N- and C-exchange of associated heterotrophic bacteria in these processes, however, are widely unknown. Within one time series experiment we tested the cycling in a natural, late stage cyanobacterial bloom by adding 13C bi-carbonate and 15N2, and performed sampling after 10 min, 30 min, 1 h, 6 h and 24 h in order to determine the fixing species as well as the fate of the fixed carbon and nitrogen in the associations. Uptake of 15N and 13C isotopes by the most abundant cyanobacterial species as well as the most abundant associated heterotrophic bacterial groups was then analysed by NanoSIMS. Overall, the filamentous, heterocystous species Dolichospermum sp., Nodularia sp., and Aphanizomenon sp. revealed no or erratic uptake of carbon and nitrogen, indicating mostly inactive cells. In contrary, non-heterocystous Pseudanabaena sp. dominated the nitrogen and carbon fixation, with uptake rates up to 1.49 ± 0.47 nmol N h-1 l-1 and 2.55 ± 0.91 nmol C h-1 l-1. Associated heterotrophic bacteria dominated the subsequent nitrogen remineralization with uptake rates up to 1.2 ± 1.93 fmol N h-1 cell -1, but were also indicative for fixation of di-nitrogen.
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- Falk Eigemann
- Department of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Stratified Lakes, Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Stechlin, Germany
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- Department of Biological Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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Drivers of the composition of active rhizosphere bacterial communities in temperate grasslands. ISME JOURNAL 2019; 14:463-475. [PMID: 31659233 PMCID: PMC6976627 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0543-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Revised: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The active bacterial rhizobiomes and root exudate profiles of phytometers of six plant species growing in central European temperate grassland communities were investigated in three regions located up to 700 km apart, across diverse edaphic conditions and along a strong land use gradient. The recruitment process from bulk soil communities was identified as the major direct driver of the composition of active rhizosphere bacterial communities. Unexpectedly, the effect of soil properties, particularly soil texture, water content, and soil type, strongly dominated over plant properties and the composition of polar root exudates of the primary metabolism. While plant species-specific selection of bacteria was minor, the RNA-based composition of active rhizosphere bacteria substantially differed between rhizosphere and bulk soil. Although other variables could additionally be responsible for the consistent enrichment of particular bacteria in the rhizosphere, distinct bacterial OTUs were linked to the presence of specific polar root exudates independent of individual plant species. Our study also identified numerous previously unknown taxa that are correlated with rhizosphere dynamics and hence represent suitable targets for future manipulations of the plant rhizobiome.
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Culturomics of the plant prokaryotic microbiome and the dawn of plant-based culture media - A review. J Adv Res 2019; 19:15-27. [PMID: 31341666 PMCID: PMC6630032 DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2019.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2019] [Revised: 04/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The plant microbiome culturomics is substantially lagging behind the human microbiome. Conventional chemically-synthetic culture media recover < 10% of plant-associated microbiota. Plant-based culture media (PCM) are introduced as a novel tool for plant microbiome culturomics. PCM extended the microbiota culturability to recover unculturable bacterial taxa. Streamlined- and large-genomes conspicuously contribute to the dilemma of unculturability.
Improving cultivability of a wider range of bacterial and archaeal community members, living natively in natural environments and within plants, is a prerequisite to better understanding plant-microbiota interactions and their functions in such very complex systems. Sequencing, assembling, and annotation of pure microbial strain genomes provide higher quality data compared to environmental metagenome analyses, and can substantially improve gene and protein database information. Despite the comprehensive knowledge which already was gained using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic methods, there still exists a big gap in understanding in vivo microbial gene functioning in planta, since many differentially expressed genes or gene families are not yet annotated. Here, the progress in culturing procedures for plant microbiota depending on plant-based culture media, and their proficiency in obtaining single prokaryotic isolates of novel and rapidly increasing candidate phyla are reviewed. As well, the great success of culturomics of the human microbiota is considered with the main objective of encouraging microbiologists to continue minimizing the gap between the microbial richness in nature and the number of species in culture, for the benefit of both basic and applied microbiology. The clear message to fellow plant microbiologists is to apply plant-tailored culturomic techniques that might open up novel procedures to obtain not-yet-cultured organisms and extend the known plant microbiota repertoire to unprecedented levels.
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Hausmann B, Pelikan C, Rattei T, Loy A, Pester M. Long-Term Transcriptional Activity at Zero Growth of a Cosmopolitan Rare Biosphere Member. mBio 2019; 10:e02189-18. [PMID: 30755506 PMCID: PMC6372793 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02189-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Microbial diversity in the environment is mainly concealed within the rare biosphere (all species with <0.1% relative abundance). While dormancy explains a low-abundance state very well, the mechanisms leading to rare but active microorganisms remain elusive. We used environmental systems biology to genomically and transcriptionally characterize "Candidatus Desulfosporosinus infrequens," a low-abundance sulfate-reducing microorganism cosmopolitan to freshwater wetlands, where it contributes to cryptic sulfur cycling. We obtained its near-complete genome by metagenomics of acidic peat soil. In addition, we analyzed anoxic peat soil incubated under in situ-like conditions for 50 days by Desulfosporosinus-targeted qPCR and metatranscriptomics. The Desulfosporosinus population stayed at a constant low abundance under all incubation conditions, averaging 1.2 × 106 16S rRNA gene copies per cm³ soil. In contrast, transcriptional activity of "Ca. Desulfosporosinus infrequens" increased at day 36 by 56- to 188-fold when minor amendments of acetate, propionate, lactate, or butyrate were provided with sulfate, compared to the no-substrate-control. Overall transcriptional activity was driven by expression of genes encoding ribosomal proteins, energy metabolism, and stress response but not by expression of genes encoding cell growth-associated processes. Since our results did not support growth of these highly active microorganisms in terms of biomass increase or cell division, they had to invest their sole energy for maintenance, most likely counterbalancing acidic pH conditions. This finding explains how a rare biosphere member can contribute to a biogeochemically relevant process while remaining in a zero-growth state over a period of 50 days.IMPORTANCE The microbial rare biosphere represents the largest pool of biodiversity on Earth and constitutes, in sum of all its members, a considerable part of a habitat's biomass. Dormancy or starvation is typically used to explain the persistence of low-abundance microorganisms in the environment. We show that a low-abundance microorganism can be highly transcriptionally active while remaining in a zero-growth state for at least 7 weeks. Our results provide evidence that this zero growth at a high cellular activity state is driven by maintenance requirements. We show that this is true for a microbial keystone species, in particular a cosmopolitan but permanently low-abundance sulfate-reducing microorganism in wetlands that is involved in counterbalancing greenhouse gas emissions. In summary, our results provide an important step forward in understanding time-resolved activities of rare biosphere members relevant for ecosystem functions.
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- Bela Hausmann
- Research Network Chemistry meets Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Research Network Chemistry meets Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Network Chemistry meets Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division of Computational Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Network Chemistry meets Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Department of Microorganisms, Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany
- Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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Schöps R, Goldmann K, Herz K, Lentendu G, Schöning I, Bruelheide H, Wubet T, Buscot F. Land-Use Intensity Rather Than Plant Functional Identity Shapes Bacterial and Fungal Rhizosphere Communities. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2711. [PMID: 30515138 PMCID: PMC6255942 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 10/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The rhizosphere encompasses the soil surrounding the surface of plants’ fine roots. Accordingly, the microbiome present is influenced by both soil type and plant species. Furthermore, soil microbial communities respond to land-use intensity due to the effects on soil conditions and plant performance. However, there is limited knowledge about the impact of grassland management practices under field conditions on the composition of both bacteria and fungi in the rhizosphere of different plant functional groups. In spring 2014 we planted four phytometer species, two forbs (Plantago lanceolata, Achillea millefolium) and two grasses (Dactylis glomerata, Arrhenatherum elatius) into 13 permanent experimental grassland plots, differing in management. After 6 months, rhizosphere and bulk soil associated with the phytometer plants were sampled, microbial genomic DNA was extracted and bacterial 16S and fungal ITS rDNA were sequenced using Illumina MiSeq. Our study revealed that the rhizosphere microbial community was more diverse than the bulk soil community. There were no differences in microbial community composition between the two plant functional groups, but a clear impact of root traits and edaphic conditions. Land-use intensity strongly affected plant productivity, neighboring plant richness and edaphic conditions, especially soil C/N ratio, which in turn had a strong influence on root traits and thereby explained to large extent microbial community composition. Rhizosphere microbes were mainly affected by abiotic factors, in particular by land-use intensity, while plant functional type had only subordinate effects. Our study provides novel insights into the assembly of rhizosphere bacterial and fungal communities in response to land-use intensity and plant functional groups in managed grassland ecosystems.
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- Ricardo Schöps
- Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany.,Department of Biology II, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany.,Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Li X, Jousset A, de Boer W, Carrión VJ, Zhang T, Wang X, Kuramae EE. Legacy of land use history determines reprogramming of plant physiology by soil microbiome. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 13:738-751. [PMID: 30368524 PMCID: PMC6461838 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0300-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Revised: 08/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Microorganisms associated with roots are thought to be part of the so-called extended plant phenotypes with roles in the acquisition of nutrients, production of growth hormones, and defense against diseases. Since the crops selectively enrich most rhizosphere microbes out of the bulk soil, we hypothesized that changes in the composition of bulk soil communities caused by agricultural management affect the extended plant phenotype. In the current study, we performed shotgun metagenome sequencing of the rhizosphere microbiome of the peanut (Arachis hypogaea) and metatranscriptome analysis of the roots of peanut plants grown in the soil with different management histories, peanut monocropping and crop rotation. We found that the past planting record had a significant effect on the assembly of the microbial community in the peanut rhizosphere, indicating a soil memory effect. Monocropping resulted in a reduction of the rhizosphere microbial diversity, an enrichment of several rare species, and a reduced representation of traits related to plant performance, such as nutrients metabolism and phytohormone biosynthesis. Furthermore, peanut plants in monocropped soil exhibited a significant reduction in growth coinciding with a down-regulation of genes related to hormone production, mainly auxin and cytokinin, and up-regulation of genes related to the abscisic acid, salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, and ethylene pathways. These findings suggest that land use history affects crop rhizosphere microbiomes and plant physiology.
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- Xiaogang Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China.,Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Environmental Biology, Ecology & Biodiversity, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CH, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands.,Soil Biology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China. .,Experimental Station of Red Soil, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yingtan, 335211, China.
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, 6708 PB, The Netherlands
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Sergaki C, Lagunas B, Lidbury I, Gifford ML, Schäfer P. Challenges and Approaches in Microbiome Research: From Fundamental to Applied. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1205. [PMID: 30174681 PMCID: PMC6107787 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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We face major agricultural challenges that remain a threat for global food security. Soil microbes harbor enormous potentials to provide sustainable and economically favorable solutions that could introduce novel approaches to improve agricultural practices and, hence, crop productivity. In this review we give an overview regarding the current state-of-the-art of microbiome research by discussing new technologies and approaches. We also provide insights into fundamental microbiome research that aim to provide a deeper understanding of the dynamics within microbial communities, as well as their interactions with different plant hosts and the environment. We aim to connect all these approaches with potential applications and reflect how we can use microbial communities in modern agricultural systems to realize a more customized and sustainable use of valuable resources (e.g., soil).
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- Chrysi Sergaki
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Chrysi Sergaki,
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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