Rhizobacterial Community Assembly Patterns Vary Between Crop Species.

ABSTRACT: Currently our limited understanding of crop rhizosphere community assembly hinders attempts to manipulate it beneficially. Variation in root communities has been attributed to plant host effects, soil type, and plant condition, but it is hard to disentangle the relative importance of soil and host without experimental manipulation. To examine the effects of soil origin and host plant on root associated bacterial communities we experimentally manipulated four crop species in split-plot mesocosms and surveyed variation in bacterial diversity by Illumina amplicon sequencing. Overall, plant species had a greater impact than soil type on community composition. While plant species associated with different Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) in different soils, plants tended to recruit bacteria f

SUBMITTER: Matthews A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6458290 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature