Compositional and functional profiling of the rhizosphere microbiomes of the invasive weed Ageratina adenophora and native plants.

ABSTRACT: The rhizosphere soil microbiome (RSM) plays an important role in the nutritional metabolism of the exotic weed Ageratina adenophora. However, our understanding of the composition and metabolic activity of this microbiome is limited. We used high-throughput sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes and fungal internal transcribed spacer fragments in combination with transcriptome analysis to compare the composition and metabolic features of the RSMs of A. adenophora and the native plant species Artemisia indica and Imperata cylindrica. A. indica cohabitates with the weed and I. cylindrica grows in uninvaded soil areas. We found fungi belonging to the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota and bacteria belonging to the phyla Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria an

SUBMITTER: Xia Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7937340 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature