Comparative study of neighboring Holm oak and olive trees-belowground microbial communities subjected to different soil management.

ABSTRACT: It is well-known that different plant species, and even plant varieties, promote different assemblages of the microbial communities associated with them. Here, we investigate how microbial communities (bacteria and fungi) undergo changes within the influence of woody plants (two olive cultivars, one tolerant and another susceptible to the soilborne fungal pathogen Verticillium dahliae, plus wild Holm oak) grown in the same soil but with different management (agricultural versus native). By the use of metabarcoding sequencing we determined that the native Holm oak trees rhizosphere bacterial communities were different from its bulk soil, with differences in some genera like Gp4, Gp6 and Solirubrobacter. Moreover, the agricultural management used in the olive orchard led to belowground micro

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Gonzalez AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7418964 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature