Planting increases the abundance and structure complexity of soil core functional genes relevant to carbon and nitrogen cycling

Wang, Feng; Liang, Yuting; Jiang, Yuji; Yang, Yunfeng; Xue, Kai; Xiong, Jinbo; Zhou, Jizhong; Sun, Bo

doi:10.1038/srep14345

Planting increases the abundance and structure complexity of soil core functional genes relevant to carbon and nitrogen cycling

Journal Article · Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14345· OSTI ID:1624798

Wang, Feng ^[1]; Liang, Yuting ^[2]; Jiang, Yuji ^[2]; Yang, Yunfeng ^[3]; Xue, Kai ^[4]; Xiong, Jinbo ^[4]; Zhou, Jizhong ^[5]; Sun, Bo ^[2]

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu (China); Ningbo Academy of Agricultural Sciences (China); DOE/OSTI
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu (China)
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China); Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Plants have an important impact on soil microbial communities and their functions. However, how plants determine the microbial composition and network interactions is still poorly understood. During a four-year field experiment, we investigated the functional gene composition of three types of soils (Phaeozem, Cambisols and Acrisol) under maize planting and bare fallow regimes located in cold temperate, warm temperate and subtropical regions, respectively. The core genes were identified using high-throughput functional gene microarray (GeoChip 3.0) and functional molecular ecological networks (fMENs) were subsequently developed with the random matrix theory (RMT)-based conceptual framework. Our results demonstrated that planting significantly (P < 0.05) increased the gene alpha-diversity in terms of richness and Shannon – Simpson’s indexes for all three types of soils and 83.5% of microbial alpha-diversity can be explained by the plant factor. Moreover, planting had significant impacts on the microbial community structure and the network interactions of the microbial communities. The calculated network complexity was higher under maize planting than under bare fallow regimes. The increase of the functional genes led to an increase in both soil respiration and nitrification potential with maize planting, indicating that changes in the soil microbial communities and network interactions influenced ecological functioning.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1624798

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 5; ISSN 2045-2322

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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