Differential microbial communities in paddy soils between Guiyang plateaus and Chengdu basins drive the incidence of rice bacterial diseases

Plant Disease ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yajiao Wang ◽  
Shuping Tian ◽  
Nan Wu ◽  
Wenwen Liu ◽  
Li Li ◽  
...  

Southwest China has the most complex rice-growing regions in China. With great differences in topography, mainly consisting of basins and plateaus, ecological factors in above region differ greatly. In this study, bulk paddy soils collected from a long-term rice field in Chengdu (basins) and in Guiyang (plateaus) were used to study the correlation between microbial diversity and the incidence of rice bacterial diseases. Results showed that the microbial community composition in paddy soils and the microbial functional categories differed significantly between basins and plateaus. They shared more than 70% of the dominant genera (abundance > 1%), but the abundance of the dominant genera differed significantly. Functional analysis found that bulk paddy soils from Chengdu were significantly enriched in virulence factor-related genes; soils from Guiyang were enriched in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites especially antibiotics. Correspondingly, Chengdu was significantly enriched in leaf bacterial pathogens Acidovorax, Xanthomonas, and Pseudomonas. Greenhouse experiments and correlation analysis showed that soil chemical properties had a greater effect on microbial community composition and positively related with the higher incidence of rice bacterial foot rot in Guiyang, while temperature had a greater effect on soil microbial functions and positively related with the higher severity index of leaf bacterial diseases in Chengdu. Our results provide a new perspective on how differences in microbial communities in paddy soils can influence the incidence of rice bacterial diseases in areas with different topographies.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Overbeek ◽  
Thomas Jeanne ◽  
Richard Hogue ◽  
Donald L. Smith

The use of biological inputs in crop production systems, as complements to synthetic inputs, is gaining popularity in the agricultural industry due to increasing consumer demand for more environmentally friendly agriculture. An approach to meeting this demand is the inoculation of field crops with beneficial microbes to promote plant growth and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, the scientific literature reports inconsistent results following applications of bio-inoculant to fields. The effects of inoculation with beneficial microbes on bulk soil and rhizospheric microbial communities is often overlooked as precise monitoring of soil microbial communities is difficult. The aim of this research was to use Illumina high throughput sequencing (HTS) to shed light on bulk soil and rhizospheric microbial community responses to two commercial microbial inoculants coated onto fertilizer granules, applied to potato fields. Bulk soil samples were collected 4 days before seeding (May 27th), 7 days after seeding (June 7th), at potato shoot emergence (June 21st) and at mid-flowering (July 26th). Rhizospheric soil was collected at the mid-flowering stage. The Illumina MiSeq HTS results indicated that the bulk soil microbial community composition, especially prokaryotes, changed significantly across potato growth stages. Microbial inoculation did not affect bulk soil or rhizospheric microbial communities sampled at the mid-flowering stage. However, a detailed analysis of the HTS results showed that bulk soil and rhizospheric microbial community richness and composition were different for the first treatment block compared to the other three blocks. The spatial heterogeneity of the soil microbial community between blocks of plots was associated with potato tuber yield changes, indicating links between crop productivity and soil microbial community composition. Understanding these links could help in production of high-quality microbial inoculants to promote potato productivity.


HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1128C-1128
Author(s):  
Shengrui Yao ◽  
Ian A. Merwin ◽  
Janice E. Thies

Apple (Malu ×domestica) replant disease (ARD) is a soil-borne disease syndrome of complex etiology that occurs worldwide when establishing new orchards in old fruit-growing sites. Methyl bromide (MB) has been an effective soil fumigant to control ARD, but safer alternatives to MB are needed. We evaluated soil microbial communities, tree growth, and fruit yield for three pre-plant soil treatments (compost amendment, soil treatment with a broad-spectrum fumigant, and untreated controls), and five clonal rootstocks (M7, M26, CG6210, CG30, and G16), in an apple replant site at Ithaca, N.Y. Molecular fingerprinting (PCR-DGGE) techniques were used to study soil microbial community composition of root-zone soil of the different soil treatments and rootstocks. Tree caliper, shoot growth, and yield were measured annually from 2002–04. Among the five rootstocks we compared, trees on CG6210 had the most growth and yield, while trees on M26 had the least growth and yield. Soil treatments altered soil microbial communities during the year after pre-plant treatments, and each treatment was associated with distinct microbial groups in hierarchical cluster analyses. However, those differences among fungal and bacterial communities diminished during the second year after planting, and soil fungal communities equilibrated faster than bacterial communities. Pre-plant soil treatments altered bulk-soil microbial community composition, but those shifts in soil microbial communities had no obvious correlation with tree performance. Rootstock genotypes were the dominant factor in tree performance after 3 years of observations, and different rootstocks were associated with characteristic bacterial, pseudomonad, fungal, and oomycetes communities in root-zone soil.


2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 17729-17756 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Ma ◽  
C. Guo ◽  
X. Lü ◽  
S. Yuan ◽  
R. Wang

Abstract. Soil microbial communities play important role in organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling and vegetation dynamic. However, little is known about factors driving soil microbial community composition at large scales. The objective of this study was to determine whether climate dominates among environmental factors governing microbial community composition and biomass at a regional scale. Here, we compared soil microbial communities using phospholipid fatty acid method across 7 land use types from 23 locations in North-East China Transect (850 km x 50 km). The results showed that soil water availability and land use changes exhibited the dominant effects on soil microbial community composition and biomass at the regional scale, while climate factors (expressed as a function of large-scale spatial variation) did not show strong relationships with distribution of microbial community composition. Likewise, factors such as spatial structure, soil texture, nutrient availability and vegetation types were not important. Wetter soils had higher contributions of gram-positive bacteria, whereas drier soils had higher contributions of gram-negative bacteria and fungi. Heavily disturbed soils had lower contributions of gram-negative bacteria and fungi than historically disturbed and undisturbed soils. The lowest microbial biomass appeared in the wettest and driest soils. In conclusion, dominant climate factors, commonly known to structure distribution of macroorganisms, were not the most important drivers governing regional pattern of microbial communities because of inclusion of irrigated and managed practices. In comparison, soil water regime and land use types appear to be primary determinants of microbial community composition and biomass.


2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianrong Huang ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Hongchen Jiang ◽  
Geng Wu ◽  
Zhanling Xie ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Little is known about the onshore microbial contribution to the microbial communities in nearby lakes and its response to salinity. In this study, transplanting experiments were established by caging onshore soils with dialysis bags followed by in situ 50-day incubation in nearby lakes with different salinity on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. At the end of the experiment, geochemical and microbial analyses were performed on the original soils, caged soils and lake waters and sediments at the incubation sites. The results showed that the salinity increased significantly (P < 0.05) in the caged soils and such salinity increases showed significant (P < 0.05) positive correlation with the salinity of the studied lakes. The microbial community composition and predicted functions in the caged soils were significantly (P < 0.05) changed in comparison with their corresponding original soils, and such variation could be mainly explained by the succession of members of the Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria from the original soils to their corresponding caged soils. The onshore microbial contribution appeared to be limited (up to 11.2% for sediment and negligible for water, respectively) to nearby lake microbial communities. Nevertheless, the survival of onshore soil microbial communities was mainly limited by the salinity of the receiving lakes.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Jiang ◽  
Wei Shui ◽  
Su-Feng Zhu ◽  
Jie Feng

Abstract Background: Karst tiankeng is a large-scale negative surface terrain, and slope aspect affect the soil conditions, vegetation and microbial flora in the tiankeng. However, the influence of the slope aspect on the soil microbial community in tiankeng has not been elucidated. Methods: In this study, metagenomic sequencing technology was used to analyzed the soil microbial communities and metabolic function on the shady and sunny slopes of karst tiankeng. Results: The Shannon-Wiener diversity of microbial communities on shady slopes was significantly higher than that on shady slopes. Shady and sunny slopes have similar microbial community composition, but there are differences in abundance. The linear discriminate analysis (LDA) results showed that biomarkers mainly belongs to Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi and Proteobacteria. Functional pathways and CAZy (Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes) genes also had a remarkable response to slope aspect change. LEfSe results indicated several biomarker pathways in sunny slope involved in human disease. Moreover, the abundance of CAZy genes was higher in shady slope and had stronger ability in decomposing litter. The microbial communities were mainly correlation with the vegetation characteristics (species richness and coverage) and soil properties (SOM and pH). Conclusions: These results indicate slope aspect has a pronounced influence on microbial community composition, structure and function at karst tiankeng. In the future, the conservation of karst tiankeng biodiversity should pay more attention to topographical factors.


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