Soil depth and crop determinants of bacterial communities under ten biofuel cropping systems
Abstract
Biofuel-cropping systems, projected for large land areas, can potentially change their soil microbiome and the ecosystem services they catalyze. Here, we determined the bacterial community composition and relevant soil properties for samples collected after 6 crop years at 0–10 cm, 10–25 cm, 25–50 cm, and 50–100 cm under corn, switchgrass, Miscanthus, and restored prairie, as well as 0–10 cm under six additional candidate biofuel crops in replicate side-by side plots. Deep sequencing of the 16S rRNA-V4 region established that soil bacterial communities were significantly differentiated by depth as determined by proportional OTU abundance and composition, UniFrac distance, and taxonomic and indicator analyses. The cropping system significantly impacted bacterial community composition within the top three layers, with corn and switchgrass communities the most different within the 0–25 cm and 25–50 cm depths, respectively. The effects of crop type and depth co-mingled, likely attributed to differences in rooting depth and biomass among crops. Individual phyla demonstrated varying patterns with depth, with significant proportional decreases of Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Planctomycetes, and Bacteroidetes but proportional increases of Firmicutes from shallow to deep soils. The Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Chloroflexi peaked in abundance in the middle layers, whereas Thaumarchaeota decreased in abundance. Importantly, some classes within themore »
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States); Xiamen University (China)
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States); Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ (United States)
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States); Nanjing Agricultural University (China)
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI (United States)
- Xiamen University (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); China Scholarship Council
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1418540
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1397974
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC02-07ER64494; 41576109
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 112; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0038-0717
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; bacterial community; soil depth; biofuel crops; soil properties
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Zhang, Bangzhou, Penton, C. Ryan, Xue, Chao, Quensen, John F., Roley, Sarah S., Guo, Jiarong, Garoutte, Aaron, Zheng, Tianling, and Tiedje, James M. Soil depth and crop determinants of bacterial communities under ten biofuel cropping systems. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.04.019.
Zhang, Bangzhou, Penton, C. Ryan, Xue, Chao, Quensen, John F., Roley, Sarah S., Guo, Jiarong, Garoutte, Aaron, Zheng, Tianling, & Tiedje, James M. Soil depth and crop determinants of bacterial communities under ten biofuel cropping systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.04.019
Zhang, Bangzhou, Penton, C. Ryan, Xue, Chao, Quensen, John F., Roley, Sarah S., Guo, Jiarong, Garoutte, Aaron, Zheng, Tianling, and Tiedje, James M. Tue .
"Soil depth and crop determinants of bacterial communities under ten biofuel cropping systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.04.019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1418540.
@article{osti_1418540,
title = {Soil depth and crop determinants of bacterial communities under ten biofuel cropping systems},
author = {Zhang, Bangzhou and Penton, C. Ryan and Xue, Chao and Quensen, John F. and Roley, Sarah S. and Guo, Jiarong and Garoutte, Aaron and Zheng, Tianling and Tiedje, James M.},
abstractNote = {Biofuel-cropping systems, projected for large land areas, can potentially change their soil microbiome and the ecosystem services they catalyze. Here, we determined the bacterial community composition and relevant soil properties for samples collected after 6 crop years at 0–10 cm, 10–25 cm, 25–50 cm, and 50–100 cm under corn, switchgrass, Miscanthus, and restored prairie, as well as 0–10 cm under six additional candidate biofuel crops in replicate side-by side plots. Deep sequencing of the 16S rRNA-V4 region established that soil bacterial communities were significantly differentiated by depth as determined by proportional OTU abundance and composition, UniFrac distance, and taxonomic and indicator analyses. The cropping system significantly impacted bacterial community composition within the top three layers, with corn and switchgrass communities the most different within the 0–25 cm and 25–50 cm depths, respectively. The effects of crop type and depth co-mingled, likely attributed to differences in rooting depth and biomass among crops. Individual phyla demonstrated varying patterns with depth, with significant proportional decreases of Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Planctomycetes, and Bacteroidetes but proportional increases of Firmicutes from shallow to deep soils. The Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Chloroflexi peaked in abundance in the middle layers, whereas Thaumarchaeota decreased in abundance. Importantly, some classes within the Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Firmicutes followed contrasting patterns with depth suggesting that they have different ecological specializations. Poplar, followed by soils with perennial crops contained the most C in the surface soils, with data indicating that these differences will become more pronounced with time.},
doi = {10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.04.019},
journal = {Soil Biology and Biochemistry},
number = C,
volume = 112,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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