scholarly journals Mycorrhization of Quercus mongolica seedlings by Tuber melanosporum alters root carbon exudation and rhizosphere bacterial communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanliang Wang ◽  
Ran Wang ◽  
Bin Lu ◽  
Alexis Guerin-Laguette ◽  
Xinhua He ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanliang Wang ◽  
Ran Wang ◽  
Bin Lu ◽  
Alexis Guerin-Laguette ◽  
Xinhua He ◽  
...  

Abstract Aims To study how ectomycorrhizas (ECMs) mediate plant performance and rhizosphere soil bacterial communities via altered physiological characteristics and root carbon exudation. Methods Tuber melanosporum-colonized and uncolonized Quercus mongolica seedlings were grown on a substrate consisting of 41 % peat, 41 % pumice, 9 % pine bark and 9 % lime. Gas exchange fluorescence system, inductively coupled plasma atomic-emission spectrometer, high-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, and 16S rRNA sequencing were used to analyze photosynthetic and nutritional characteristics, and rhizosphere carbon exudates, and bacterial communities. Results Tuber melanosporum mycorrhization increased leaf photosynthetic rate (by 69 %) and phosphorus concentration (94 %); increased rhizosphere pH (0.4 units), total organic carbon (TOC, 76 %) and acid phosphatase activity (33 %); but decreased leaf potassium concentration (26 %) and rhizosphere organic anions (50 %). Additionally, sugars like galactose were present in rhizosphere extract of colonized, but not uncolonized seedlings. Mycorrhization altered rhizosphere bacterial communities, with only ~10 % operational taxonomic units (OTUs) shared by both colonized and uncolonized seedlings; T. melanosporum enriched the phylum actinobacteria and the OTU of amb-16S-1323, IMCC26256 and PLTA13, but reduced SWB02. The abundances of different OTUs were differently affected by T. melanosporum colonization, and they were correlated with different physiological and/or rhizosphere factors. Conclusion Our results demonstrate that T. melanosporum ECM colonization can regulate carbon economy and rhizosphere bacterial communities of Q. mongolica seedlings grown in a previously sterilized peat-based substrate, to promote plant growth and nutrient cycling.


BIO-PROTOCOL ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura White ◽  
Volker Br�zel ◽  
Senthil Subramanian

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Liu ◽  
Huichun Yang ◽  
Qi Liu ◽  
Xiaowen Zhao ◽  
Sasa Xie ◽  
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Intercropping of soybean and sugarcane is an important strategy to promote sustainable development of the sugarcane industry. In fact, our understanding of the interaction between the rhizosphere and bacterial communities in the intercropping system is still evolving; particularly, the influence of different sugarcane varieties on rhizosphere bacterial communities in the intercropping process with soybean, still needs further research. Here, we evaluated the response of sugarcane varieties ZZ1 and ZZ9 to the root bacterial community during intercropping with soybean. We found that when ZZ9 was intercropped with soybean, the bacterial diversity increased significantly as compared to that when ZZ1 was used. ZZ9 played a major role in changing the bacterial environment of the root system by affecting the diversity of rhizosphere bacteria, forming a rhizosphere environment more conducive to the growth of sugarcane. In addition, our study found that ZZ1 and ZZ9 had differed significantly in their utilization of nutrients. For example, nutrients were affected by different functional genes in processes such as denitrification, P-uptake and transport, inorganic P-solubilization, and organic P-mineralization. These results are significant in terms of providing guidance to the sugarcane industry, particularly for the intercropping of sugarcane and soybean in Guangxi, China.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lixin Tian ◽  
Feifei Zhang ◽  
Pengliang Chen ◽  
Panpan Zhang ◽  
Zhijun Gao ◽  
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Abstract It is of great ecological significance to understand how the assembly processes of soil microbe communities respond to environmental change. However, the assembly processes of the rhizosphere bacterial communities in three minor grain crops (i.e., foxtail millet, proso millet, and sorghum) across agro-ecosystems are rarely investigated. Here, we investigated the environmental thresholds and phylogenetic signals for ecological preferences of rhizosphere bacterial communities of three minor grain crop taxa across complex environmental gradients to reflect their environmental adaptation. Additionally, we reported environmental factors affecting their community assembly processes based on a large-scale soil survey in agricultural fields across northern China using high-throughput sequencing.. The results demonstrated a narrower range of environmental thresholds and weaker phylogenetic signals for the ecological traits of rhizosphere bacteria in proso millet than in foxtail millet and sorghum fields, while proso millet rhizosphere community was the most phylogenetically clustered. The null model analysis indicated that homogeneous selection belonging to deterministic processes governed the sorghum rhizosphere community, whereas dispersal limitation belonging to stochastic processes was the critical assembly process in the foxtail and proso millet. Mean annual temperature was the decisive factor for adjusting the balance between stochasticity and determinism of the foxtail millet, proso millet, and sorghum rhizosphere communities. A higher temperature resulted in stochasticity in the proso millet and sorghum communities. For the foxtail millet community, the deterministic assembly increased with an increase in temperature. These results contribute to the understanding of root-associated bacterial community assembly processes in agro-ecosystems on a large scale.


2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
András Halbritter ◽  
T. Mogyoróssy

To analyze the rhizosphere bacterial communities in wetlands, the total lipid content was extracted from a peat soil and 4 abundant wetland plant roots ( Typha angustifolia L., Salix cinerea L., Carex pseudocyperus L., Thelypteris palustris Salisb.). The separated phospholipid fraction was further fractionated and deriva­tized prior to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) measurement. In the evaluation only the bacteria-specific fatty acids were used in order to neglect fatty acid information derived from plant root cells. Based on these analyses, a high level bacterial concentration was demonstrated in the rhizosphere, and the relative occurrence of aerobe and anaerobe, Gram positive and negative bacteria, methanotrophs, sulphate reducers and Actinobacteria was determined. Through the PLFA analysis the study of bacteria regardless of culturability was possible.


3 Biotech ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Tayyab ◽  
Waqar Islam ◽  
Ali Noman ◽  
Ziqin Pang ◽  
Shiyan Li ◽  
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