Interspecific plant interaction structures the microbiomes of poplar-soil interface to alter nutrient cycling and utilization.

ABSTRACT: Terrestrial plants can influence the growth and health of adjacent plants through interspecific interaction. Here, the mechanisms of interspecific plant interaction on microbial function and nutrient utilization in the plant-soil interface (non-rhizosphere soil, rhizosphere soil, and root) were studied by soybean- and potato-poplar intercropping. First, metagenomics showed that soybean- and potato-poplar intercropping influenced the composition and co-occurrence networks of microbial communities in different ecological niches, with higher stability of the microbial community in soybean intercropping. Second, the gene abundance related to carbon metabolism, nitrogen cycling, phosphorus cycling, and sulfur cycling was increased at the poplar-soil interface in soybean intercropping. Moreover,

SUBMITTER: You Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10846221 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature