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ArticleISME communications2023

Tomato growth stage modulates bacterial communities across different soil aggregate sizes and disease levels.

Menghui Dong, Eiko E Kuramae, Mengli Zhao, Rong Li, Qirong Shen, George A Kowalchuk

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Article in ISME communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Menghui DongKey Lab of Organic-Based Fertilizers of China, Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Solid Organic Waste Utilization, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Solid Organic Wastes, Educational Ministry Engineering Center of Resource-Saving Fertilizers, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9487-7318
Eiko E KuramaeEcology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Mengli ZhaoState Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China.
Rong LiKey Lab of Organic-Based Fertilizers of China, Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Solid Organic Waste Utilization, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Solid Organic Wastes, Educational Ministry Engineering Center of Resource-Saving Fertilizers, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China. lirong@njau.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2599-5476
Qirong ShenKey Lab of Organic-Based Fertilizers of China, Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Solid Organic Waste Utilization, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Solid Organic Wastes, Educational Ministry Engineering Center of Resource-Saving Fertilizers, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
George A KowalchukEcology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Funding

China Scholarship Council (CSC) 202006850020National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 41977044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil aggregates contain distinct physio-chemical properties across different size classes. These differences in micro-habitats support varied microbial communities and modulate the effect of plant on microbiome, which affect soil functions such as disease suppression. However, little is known about how the residents of different soil aggregate size classes are impacted by plants throughout their growth stages. Here, we examined how tomato plants impact soil aggregation and bacterial communities within different soil aggregate size classes. Moreover, we investigated whether aggregate size impacts the distribution of soil pathogen and their potential inhibitors. We collected samples from different tomato growth stages: before-planting, seedling, flowering, and fruiting stage. We measured bacterial density, community composition, and pathogen abundance using qPCR and 16 S rRNA gene sequencing. We found the development of tomato growth stages negatively impacted root-adhering soil aggregation, with a gradual decrease of large macro-aggregates (1-2 mm) and an increase of micro-aggregates (<0.25 mm). Additionally, changes in bacterial density and community composition varied across soil aggregate size classes. Furthermore, the pathogen exhibited a preference to micro-aggregates, while macro-aggregates hold a higher abundance of potential pathogen-inhibiting taxa and predicted antibiotic-associated genes. Our results indicate that the impacts of tomatoes on soil differ for different soil aggregate size classes throughout different plant growth stages, and plant pathogens and their potential inhibitors have different habitats within soil aggregate size classes. These findings highlight the importance of fine-scale heterogeneity of soil aggregate size classes in research on microbial ecology and agricultural sustainability, further research focuses on soil aggregates level could help identify candidate tax involved in suppressing pathogens in the virtual micro-habitats.

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