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ArticleGenome biology2019

Soil domestication by rice cultivation results in plant-soil feedback through shifts in soil microbiota.

Joseph Edwards, Christian Santos-Medellín, Bao Nguyen, John Kilmer, Zachary Liechty, Esteban Veliz, Jiadong Ni, Gregory Phillips, Venkatesan Sundaresan

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Article in Genome biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Joseph EdwardsDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Life Sciences Addition, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Christian Santos-MedellínDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Life Sciences Addition, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Bao NguyenDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Life Sciences Addition, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
John KilmerDepartment of Agriculture, Arkansas State University, 2105 Aggie Rd., Jonesboro, AR, 72401, USA.
Zachary LiechtyDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Life Sciences Addition, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Esteban VelizDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Life Sciences Addition, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Jiadong NiDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Life Sciences Addition, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
Gregory PhillipsDepartment of Agriculture, Arkansas State University, 2105 Aggie Rd., Jonesboro, AR, 72401, USA.
Venkatesan SundaresanDepartment of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Life Sciences Addition, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, USA. sundar@ucdavis.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4670-0630
University of California, Davis · USArkansas State University · USCarnegie Department of Plant Biology · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSoils are a key component of agricultural productivity, and soil microbiota determine the availability of many essential plant nutrients. Agricultural domestication of soils, that is, the conversion of previously uncultivated soils to a cultivated state, is frequently accompanied by intensive monoculture, especially in the developing world. However, there is limited understanding of how continuous cultivation alters the structure of prokaryotic soil microbiota after soil domestication, including to what extent crop plants impact soil microbiota composition, and how changes in microbiota composition arising from cultivation affect crop performance.

resultsWe show here that continuous monoculture (> 8 growing seasons) of the major food crop rice under flooded conditions is associated with a pronounced shift in soil bacterial and archaeal microbiota structure towards a more consistent composition, thereby domesticating microbiota of previously uncultivated sites. Aside from the potential effects of agricultural cultivation practices, we provide evidence that rice plants themselves are important drivers of the domestication process, acting through selective enrichment of specific taxa, including methanogenic archaea, in their rhizosphere that differ from those of native plants growing in the same environment. Furthermore, we find that microbiota from soils domesticated by rice cultivation contribute to plant-soil feedback, by imparting a negative effect on rice seedling vigor.

conclusionsSoil domestication through continuous monoculture cultivation of rice results in compositional changes in the soil microbiota, which are in part driven by the rice plants. The consequences include a negative impact on plant performance and increases in greenhouse gas emitting microbes.

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DomesticationMicrobiotaSoil MicrobiologyOryzaPlant Roots

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PMCPMC6814045
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