Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection.

ABSTRACT: The rhizosphere community represents an "ecological interface" between plant and soil, providing the plant with a number of advantages. Despite close connection and mutual influence in this system, the knowledge about the connection of plant and rhizosphere diversity is still controversial. One of the most valuable factors of this uncertainty is a rough estimation of plant diversity. NGS sequencing can make the estimations of the plant community more precise than classical geobotanical methods. We investigate fallow and crop sites, which are similar in terms of environmental conditions and soil legacy, yet at the same time are significantly different in terms of plant diversity. We explored amplicons of both the plant root mass (ITS1 DNA) and the microbial communities (16S rDNA); determine

SUBMITTER: Zverev AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8619031 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature