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Title: Agricultural management and plant selection interactively affect rhizosphere microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Rhizosphere microbial communities are key regulators of plant performance, yet few studies have assessed the impact of different management approaches on the rhizosphere microbiomes of major crops. Rhizosphere microbial communities are shaped by interactions between agricultural management and host selection processes, but studies often consider these factors individually rather than in combination. We tested the impacts of management (M) and rhizosphere effects (R) on microbial community structure and co-occurrence networks of maize roots collected from long-term conventionally and organically managed maize-tomato agroecosystems. We also explored the interaction between these factors (M Ă— R) and how it impacts rhizosphere microbial diversity and composition, differential abundance, indicator taxa, co-occurrence network structure, and microbial nitrogen-cycling processes. RESULTS: Host selection processes moderate the influence of agricultural management on rhizosphere microbial communities, although bacteria and fungi respond differently to plant selection and agricultural management. We found that plants recruit management-system-specific taxa and shift N-cycling pathways in the rhizosphere, distinguishing this soil compartment from bulk soil. Rhizosphere microbiomes from conventional and organic systems were more similar in diversity and network structure than communities from their respective bulk soils, and community composition was affected by both M and R effects. In contrast, fungal community composition wasmore » affected only by management, and network structure only by plant selection. Quantification of six nitrogen-cycling genes (nifH, amoA [bacterial and archaeal], nirK, nrfA, and nosZ) revealed that only nosZ abundance was affected by management and was higher in the organic system. CONCLUSIONS: Plant selection interacts with conventional and organic management practices to shape rhizosphere microbial community composition, co-occurrence patterns, and at least one nitrogen-cycling process. Reframing research priorities to better understand adaptive plant-microbe feedbacks and include roots as a significant moderating influence of management outcomes could help guide plant-oriented strategies to improve productivity and agroecosystem sustainability.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1]
  1. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDA; University of California, Davis
OSTI Identifier:
1599819
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; CA-D-PLS-2332-H
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Microbiome
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2049-2618
Publisher:
BioMed Central
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; rhizosphere; agricultural management; soil microbial community; nitrogen cycling; quantitative PCR; agroecosystem; adaptive feedbacks

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Schmidt, Jennifer E., Kent, Angela D., Brisson, Vanessa L., and Gaudin, Amélie C. M. Agricultural management and plant selection interactively affect rhizosphere microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1186/s40168-019-0756-9.
Schmidt, Jennifer E., Kent, Angela D., Brisson, Vanessa L., & Gaudin, Amélie C. M. Agricultural management and plant selection interactively affect rhizosphere microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling. United States. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0756-9
Schmidt, Jennifer E., Kent, Angela D., Brisson, Vanessa L., and Gaudin, Amélie C. M. Thu . "Agricultural management and plant selection interactively affect rhizosphere microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling". United States. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0756-9. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1599819.
@article{osti_1599819,
title = {Agricultural management and plant selection interactively affect rhizosphere microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling},
author = {Schmidt, Jennifer E. and Kent, Angela D. and Brisson, Vanessa L. and Gaudin, Amélie C. M.},
abstractNote = {BACKGROUND: Rhizosphere microbial communities are key regulators of plant performance, yet few studies have assessed the impact of different management approaches on the rhizosphere microbiomes of major crops. Rhizosphere microbial communities are shaped by interactions between agricultural management and host selection processes, but studies often consider these factors individually rather than in combination. We tested the impacts of management (M) and rhizosphere effects (R) on microbial community structure and co-occurrence networks of maize roots collected from long-term conventionally and organically managed maize-tomato agroecosystems. We also explored the interaction between these factors (M Ă— R) and how it impacts rhizosphere microbial diversity and composition, differential abundance, indicator taxa, co-occurrence network structure, and microbial nitrogen-cycling processes. RESULTS: Host selection processes moderate the influence of agricultural management on rhizosphere microbial communities, although bacteria and fungi respond differently to plant selection and agricultural management. We found that plants recruit management-system-specific taxa and shift N-cycling pathways in the rhizosphere, distinguishing this soil compartment from bulk soil. Rhizosphere microbiomes from conventional and organic systems were more similar in diversity and network structure than communities from their respective bulk soils, and community composition was affected by both M and R effects. In contrast, fungal community composition was affected only by management, and network structure only by plant selection. Quantification of six nitrogen-cycling genes (nifH, amoA [bacterial and archaeal], nirK, nrfA, and nosZ) revealed that only nosZ abundance was affected by management and was higher in the organic system. CONCLUSIONS: Plant selection interacts with conventional and organic management practices to shape rhizosphere microbial community composition, co-occurrence patterns, and at least one nitrogen-cycling process. Reframing research priorities to better understand adaptive plant-microbe feedbacks and include roots as a significant moderating influence of management outcomes could help guide plant-oriented strategies to improve productivity and agroecosystem sustainability.},
doi = {10.1186/s40168-019-0756-9},
journal = {Microbiome},
number = 1,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Thu Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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Disentangling the rhizosphere effect on nitrate reducers and denitrifiers: insight into the role of root exudates
journal, November 2008


Rhizosphere geometry and heterogeneity arising from root-mediated physical and chemical processes: Research review
journal, August 2005


Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi
journal, September 2013

  • Kõljalg, Urmas; Nilsson, R. Henrik; Abarenkov, Kessy
  • Molecular Ecology, Vol. 22, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1111/mec.12481

Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming
journal, May 2002


The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability
journal, November 2015


Denitrifying bacteria in bulk and maize-rhizospheric soil: diversity and N 2 O-reducing abilities
journal, July 2004

  • Chèneby, D.; Perrez, S.; Devroe, C.
  • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, Vol. 50, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1139/w04-037

Soil Fungal Resources in Annual Cropping Systems and Their Potential for Management
journal, January 2014

  • Ellouze, Walid; Esmaeili Taheri, Ahmad; Bainard, Luke D.
  • BioMed Research International, Vol. 2014
  • DOI: 10.1155/2014/531824

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data
journal, April 2013


Functional Potential of Soil Microbial Communities in the Maize Rhizosphere
journal, November 2014


Tightly-Coupled Plant-Soil Nitrogen Cycling: Comparison of Organic Farms across an Agricultural Landscape
journal, June 2015


Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization and Micro-autoradiography Applied to Ecophysiology in Soil
journal, March 2007

  • Rogers, Shane W.; Moorman, Thomas B.; Ong, Say Kee
  • Soil Science Society of America Journal, Vol. 71, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2006.0105

Species Assemblages and Indicator Species: The Need for a Flexible Asymmetrical Approach
journal, August 1997

  • Dufrene, Marc; Legendre, Pierre
  • Ecological Monographs, Vol. 67, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.2307/2963459

Root exudation and root development of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. cv. Tizian) as affected by different soils
journal, January 2014


Effect of the soil type on the microbiome in the rhizosphere of field-grown lettuce
journal, April 2014


Soil Microbiome Is More Heterogeneous in Organic Than in Conventional Farming System
journal, January 2017

  • Lupatini, Manoeli; Korthals, Gerard W.; de Hollander, Mattias
  • Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 7
  • DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02064

Drought Stress and Root-Associated Bacterial Communities
journal, January 2018


Reframing the Debate Surrounding the Yield Gap between Organic and Conventional Farming
journal, February 2019


Underexplored microbial metabolisms for enhanced nutrient recycling in agricultural soils
journal, January 2017


Biotic interactions in the rhizosphere in relation to plant and soil nutrient dynamics
journal, January 2015


Modularity and community structure in networks
text, January 2006


Three New Records of Mortierella Species Isolated from Crop Field Soil in Korea
journal, September 2015