Soil microbiome disruption reveals specific and general plant-bacterial relationships in three agroecosystem soils.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbiome disruption methods are regularly used to reduce populations of microbial pathogens, often resulting in increased crop growth. However, little is known about the effect of soil microbiome disruption on non-pathogenic members of the soil microbiome. Here, we applied soil microbiome disruption in the form of moist-heat sterilization (autoclaving) to reduce populations of naturally occurring soil microbiota. The disruption was applied to analyze bacterial community rearrangement mediated by four crops (corn, beet, lettuce, and tomato) grown in three historically distinct agroecosystem soils (conventional, organic, and diseased). Applying the soil disruption enhanced plant influence on rhizosphere bacterial colonization, and significantly different bacterial communities were det

SUBMITTER: DiLegge MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668122 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature