An Integrated Insight into the Relationship between Soil Microbial Community and Tobacco Bacterial Wilt Disease.

ABSTRACT: The soil microbial communities play an important role in plant health, however, the relationship between the below-ground microbiome and above-ground plant health remains unclear. To reveal such a relationship, we analyzed soil microbial communities through sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons from 15 different tobacco fields with different levels of wilt disease in the central south part of China. We found that plant health was related to the soil microbial diversity as plants may benefit from the diverse microbial communities. Also, those 15 fields were grouped into 'healthy' and 'infected' samples based upon soil microbial community composition analyses such as unweighted paired-group method with arithmetic means (UPGMA) and principle component analysis, and furthermore, molecular ecol

SUBMITTER: Yang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5681905 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature