Stochastic and deterministic processes shape bioenergy crop microbiomes along a vertical soil niche.

ABSTRACT: Sustainable biofuel cropping systems aim to address climate change while meeting energy needs. Understanding how soil and plant-associated microbes respond to these different cropping systems is key to promoting agriculture sustainability and evaluating changes in ecosystem functions. Here, we leverage a long-term biofuel cropping system field experiment to dissect soil and root microbiome changes across a soil-depth gradient in poplar, restored prairie and switchgrass to understand their effects on the microbial communities. High throughput amplicon sequencing of the fungal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and prokaryotic 16S DNA regions showed a common trend of root and soil microbial community richness decreasing and evenness increasing with depth. Ecological niche (root vs. soil) had

SUBMITTER: Benucci GMN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10099798 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature