Journal
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY
Volume 98, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiac092
Keywords
denitrification; nitrous oxide; rhizosphere; soil
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- Oscar and Lili Lamm foundation [2010-11-13]
- Swedish Research Council [2016-03551]
- KoN-program soil-plant interactions within the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) [5021003]
- Swedish Research Council [2016-03551] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
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The rhizosphere serves as a hotspot for denitrification. Different root systems may influence the assembly of N2O-reducing microbial communities, with competition being more influential than habitat selection.
The rhizosphere is a hotspot for denitrification. The nitrous oxide (N2O) reductase among denitrifiers and nondenitrifying N2O reducers is the only known N2O sink in the biosphere. We hypothesized that the composition of root-associated N2O-reducing communities when establishing on annual crops depend on soil type and plant species, but that assembly processes are independent of these factors and differ between nosZ clades I and II. Using a pot experiment with barley and sunflower and two soils, we analyzed the abundance, composition, and diversity of soil and root-associated N2O reducing communities by qPCR and amplicon sequencing of nosZ. Clade I was more abundant on roots compared to soil, while clade II showed the opposite. In barley, this pattern coincided with N2O availability, determined as potential N2O production rates, but for sunflower no N2O production was detected in the root compartment. Root and soil nosZ communities differed in composition and phylogeny-based community analyses indicated that assembly of root-associated N2O reducers was driven by the interaction between plant and soil type, with inferred competition being more influential than habitat selection. Selection between clades I and II in the root/soil interface is suggested, which may have functional consequences since most clade I microorganisms can produce N2O.
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