Infestation by potato tuber moth restructures microbial communities in flue-cured tobacco rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The rhizosphere microbiota is associated with the plant response to phytophagous pest infestation through the plant-rhizosphere microbe axis. However, the responses of microbial community characteristics of flue-cured tobacco rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil to potato tuber moth (PTM) Phthorimaea operculella larval feeding is unclear.

Methods

In this study, the microbial structural composition was analysed in the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil of healthy and PTM infested flue-cured tobacco plants at the vigorous growth stage collected from the field (with four replicates per group) using Illumina MiSeq sequencing. The featured microbes, co-occurrence networks, and potential functions of tobacco rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil microbial communities

SUBMITTER: Sun G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12504494 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature