Grazing and Climate Effects on Soil Chemical Properties and Bacterial Community in a Semiarid Area, Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-550
Author(s):  
M. Teimouri ◽  
P. Mohammadi ◽  
W. A. Dick ◽  
E. Asgarani
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Soil Chemical Properties ◽  
Semiarid Area ◽  
Climate Effects

scholarly journals The effects of afforestation on soil bacterial communities in temperate grassland are modulated by soil chemical properties

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e6147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu-Hong Wu ◽  
Bing-Hong Huang ◽  
Jian Gao ◽  
Siqi Wang ◽  
Pei-Chun Liao
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Soil Chemical Properties ◽  
Soil Microbiome ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Soil P ◽  
Soil Bacterial Communities ◽  
Abundant Otus ◽  
Soil Bacterial

Grassland afforestation dramatically affects the abiotic, biotic, and ecological function properties of the original ecosystems. Interference from afforestation might disrupt the stasis of soil physicochemical properties and the dynamic balance of microbiota. Some studies have suggested low sensitivity of soil properties and bacterial community to afforestation, but the apparent lack of a significant relationship is probably due to the confounding effects of the generalist habitat and rare bacterial communities. In this study, soil chemical and prokaryotic properties in a 30-year-old Mongolia pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica Litv.) afforested region and adjacent grassland in Inner Mongolia were classified and quantified. Our results indicate that the high richness of rare microbes accounts for the alpha-diversity of the soil microbiome. Few OTUs of generalist (core bacteria) and habitat-specialist bacteria are present. However, the high abundance of this small number of OTUs governs the beta-diversity of the grassland and afforested land bacterial communities. Afforestation has changed the soil chemical properties, thus indirectly affecting the soil bacterial composition rather than richness. The contents of soil P, Ca2+, and Fe3+ account for differentially abundant OTUs such as Planctomycetes and subsequent changes in the ecologically functional potential of soil bacterial communities due to grassland afforestation. We conclude that grassland afforestation has changed the chemical properties and composition of the soil and ecological functions of the soil bacterial community and that these effects of afforestation on the microbiome have been modulated by changes in soil chemical properties.

scholarly journals Biochar Suppresses Bacterial Wilt of Tomato by Improving Soil Chemical Properties and Shifting Soil Microbial Community

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Gao ◽  
Yang Lu ◽  
Weipeng Lin ◽  
Jihui Tian ◽  
Kunzheng Cai
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Bacterial Wilt ◽  
Plant Disease Resistance ◽  
Soil Microbial Community ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Disease Suppression ◽  
Soil Chemical Properties ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Genus Level

The role of biochar amendments in enhancing plant disease resistance has been well documented, but its mechanism is not yet fully understood. In the present study, 2% biochar made from wheat straw was added to the soil of tomato infected by Ralstonia solanacearum to explore the interrelation among biochar, tomato bacterial wilt resistance, soil chemical properties, and soil microbial community and to decipher the disease suppression mechanisms from a soil microbial perspective. Biochar application significantly reduced the disease severity of bacterial wilt, increased soil total organic carbon, total nitrogen, C:N ratio, organic matter, available P, available K, pH, and electrical conductivity. Biochar treatment also increased soil acid phosphatase activity under the non-R.-solanacearum-inoculated condition. High-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA revealed substantial differences in rhizosphere bacterial community structures between biochar-amended and nonamended treatments. Biochar did not influence soil microbial richness and diversity but significantly increased the relative abundance of Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria in soil at the phylum level under R. solanacearum inoculation. Furthermore, biochar amendment harbored a higher abundance of Chitinophaga, Flavitalea, Adhaeribacter, Pontibacter, Pedobacter, and Ohtaekwangia at the genus level of Bacteroides and Pseudomonas at the genus level of Proteobacteria under R. solanacearum inoculation. Our findings suggest that a biochar-shifted soil bacterial community structure can favorably contribute to the resistance of tomato plants against bacterial wilt.

scholarly journals Shift of Dominant Species in Plant Community and Soil Chemical Properties Shape Soil Bacterial Community Characteristics and Putative Functions: A Case Study on Topographic Variation in a Mountain Pasture

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 961
Author(s):  
Jinu Eo ◽  
Myung-Hyun Kim ◽  
Min-Kyeong Kim ◽  
Soon-Kun Choi
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Dominant Species ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Soil Bacterial Community ◽  
Soil Chemical Properties ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Community Characteristics ◽  
Soil Bacterial

Reducing management intensity according to the topography of pastures can change the dominant plant species from sown forages to weeds. It is unclear how changes in species dominance in plant community drive spatial variation in soil bacterial community characteristics and functions in association with edaphic condition. Analysing separately the effects of both plant communities and soil chemical properties on bacterial community is crucial for understanding the biogeographic process at a small scale. In this paper, we investigated soil bacterial responses in five plant communities (two forage and three weed), where >65% of the coverage was by one or two species. The structure and composition of the bacterial communities in the different microbiome were analysed using sequencing and their characteristics were assessed using the Functional Annotation of Prokaryotic Taxa (FAPROTAX) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways. Firmicutes and Planctomycetes responded only to one specific plant community, and each plant community harboured unique operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at the species level. There were a large percentage of uniquely absent OTUs for specific plant communities, suggesting that a negative effect is critical in the relationship between plants and bacteria. Bacterial diversity indices were influenced more by soil chemical properties than by plant communities. Some putative functions related to C and N recycling including nitrogen fixation were correlated with pH, electrical conductivity (EC) and nutrient levels, and this also implied that some biological functions, such as ureolysis and carbon metabolism, may decline when fertilisation intensity is reduced. Taken together, these results suggest that a shift of dominant species in plant community exerts individual effects on the bacterial community composition, which is different from the effect of soil chemical properties.

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