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Succession of the soil bacterial community as resource utilization shifts from plant residues to rhizodeposits

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SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 173, Issue -, Pages -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108785

Keywords

Plant-derived carbon; Continuous(13)CO(2) labeling; Keystone microbiota; DNA-SIP; Bacterial life strategy

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  1. National Science Foundation of China [U1901601]
  2. Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [R19D010005]

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Identifying the core taxa involved in the utilization of plant straw or/and rhizodeposits is key to understanding the microbial mechanisms underlying the turnover of these plant-derived organic matters. This study successfully identified these taxa using a novel experimental design and revealed the shift of soil bacterial community and metabolisms under different conditions.
Identifying the core taxa involved in the utilization of plant straw or/and rhizodeposits is key to understanding the microbial mechanisms underlying the turnover of these plant-derived organic matters, known as the brown path and green path, respectively. However, this still remains a challenge, primarily due to methodological limitations. By adopting a novel experimental design of parallel C-13-labelling and DNA-SIP, we identified mi-croorganisms that utilized rhizodeposits and plant straw in soils containing these two plant-derived substances. Additionally, to compare straw utilizers in the soil without plants (straw only) and with plants (straw plus rhizodeposits), we investigated the shift of these substrate-stimulated communities (e.g., straw utilizers) in the presence of live maize plants. Here we showed that i) rhizodeposits were used by a wide range of root-associated microorganisms but plant straw was mainly utilized by oligotrophs, e.g., Arthrobacter, when these two plant-derived substances were co-present; and ii) there was a shift in the bacterial straw utilizer community, e.g., Streptomyces, and their physiological metabolism from saprotrophy to symbiosis when maize plants were present. This study identified distinct utilizers of plant-derived substances, i.e. straw or rhizodeposits, and revealed the shift of soil bacterial community and metabolisms along the autotroph-saprotroph-mutualism continuum.

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