Effects of rhizoma peanut cultivars (Arachis glabrata Benth.) on the soil bacterial diversity and predicted function in nitrogen fixation

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Title: Effects of rhizoma peanut cultivars (Arachis glabrata Benth.) on the soil bacterial diversity and predicted function in nitrogen fixation
Authors: Xiao‐Bo Wang, Chih‐Ming Hsu, José C. B. Dubeux Jr., Cheryl Mackowiak, Ann Blount, Xing‐Guo Han, Hui‐Ling Liao
Source: Ecology and Evolution, Vol 9, Iss 22, Pp 12676-12687 (2019)
Publisher Information: Wiley, 2019.
Publication Year: 2019
Collection: LCC:Ecology
Subject Terms: bacterial diversity, biological nitrogen fixation, functional profiles, grasslands, soil microorganisms, Ecology, QH540-549.5
More Details: Abstract There is a growing awareness of the importance of soil microorganisms in agricultural management practices. Currently, much less is known about whether different crop cultivar has an effect on the taxonomic structure and diversity, and specific functions of soil bacterial communities. Here, we examined the changes of the diversity and composition and enzyme‐encoding nitrogenase genes in a long‐term field experiment with seven different rhizoma peanut cultivars in southeastern USA, coupling high‐throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing and the sequence‐based function prediction with Tax4Fun. Of the 32 phyla detected (Proteobacteria class), 13 were dominant: Acidobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Verrucomicrobia, Gammaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Firmicutes, Nitrospirae, Chloroflexi, and Planctomycetes (relative abundance >1%). We found no evidence that the diversity and composition of bacterial communities were significantly different among different cultivars, but the abundance of some dominant bacterial groups that have N‐fixation potentials (at broad or fine taxonomic level) and predicted abundances of some enzyme‐encoding nitrogenase genes showed significant across‐cultivar differences. The nitrogenase genes were notably abundant in Florigraze and Latitude soils while remarkably lower in Arbook and UF_TITO soils when compared with other cultivars, indicating different nitrogen fixation potentials among different cultivars. The findings also suggest that the abundance of certain bacterial taxa and the specific function bacteria perform in ecosystems can have an inherent association. Our study is helpful to understand how microbiological responses and feedback to different plant genotypes through the variation in structure and function of their communities in the rhizosphere.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2045-7758
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5735
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/9dc48325aea04384af156c5f17f4e36d
Accession Number: edsdoj.9dc48325aea04384af156c5f17f4e36d
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:20457758
DOI:10.1002/ece3.5735
Published in:Ecology and Evolution
Language:English