Microbial Community Structures and Important Associations Between Soil Nutrients and the Responses of Specific Taxa to Rice-Frog Cultivation.

ABSTRACT: Rice-frog cultivation is a traditional farming system in China and has been reintroduced as an agricultural practice in China in recent years. The microbial community in paddy rhizospheric soils has attracted much attention because many microorganisms participate in functional processes in soils. In this study, Illumina MiSeq sequencing-based techniques were used to investigate soil microbial communities and functional gene patterns across samples obtained by conventional rice cultivation (CR) and rice-frog cultivation (RF). The results showed that RF significantly affected the microbial community composition and richness, which indicated that the rhizospheric microorganisms responded to the introduction of tiger frogs into the paddy fields. Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from Sanda

SUBMITTER: Yi X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6693445 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature