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Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection

The rhizosphere community represents an “ecological interface” between plant and soil, providing the plant with a number of advantages. Despite close connection and mutual influence in this system, the knowledge about the connection of plant and rhizosphere diversity is still controversial. One of t...

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Autores principales: Zverev, Aleksei O., Kichko, Arina A., Pinaev, Aleksandr G., Provorov, Nikolay A., Andronov, Evgeny E.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8619031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34835464
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112339
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author Zverev, Aleksei O.
Kichko, Arina A.
Pinaev, Aleksandr G.
Provorov, Nikolay A.
Andronov, Evgeny E.
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Kichko, Arina A.
Pinaev, Aleksandr G.
Provorov, Nikolay A.
Andronov, Evgeny E.
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description The rhizosphere community represents an “ecological interface” between plant and soil, providing the plant with a number of advantages. Despite close connection and mutual influence in this system, the knowledge about the connection of plant and rhizosphere diversity is still controversial. One of the most valuable factors of this uncertainty is a rough estimation of plant diversity. NGS sequencing can make the estimations of the plant community more precise than classical geobotanical methods. We investigate fallow and crop sites, which are similar in terms of environmental conditions and soil legacy, yet at the same time are significantly different in terms of plant diversity. We explored amplicons of both the plant root mass (ITS1 DNA) and the microbial communities (16S rDNA); determined alpha- and beta-diversity indices and their correlation, and performed differential abundance analysis. In the analysis, there is no correlation between the alpha-diversity indices of plants and the rhizosphere microbial communities. The beta-diversity between rhizosphere microbial communities and plant communities is highly correlated (R = 0.866, p = 0.01). ITS1 sequencing is effective for the description of plant root communities. There is a connection between rhizosphere communities and the composition of plants, but on the alpha-diversity level we found no correlation. In the future, the connection of alpha-diversities should be explored using ITS1 sequencing, even in more similar plant communities—for example, in different synusia.
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spelling pubmed-86190312021-11-27 Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection Zverev, Aleksei O. Kichko, Arina A. Pinaev, Aleksandr G. Provorov, Nikolay A. Andronov, Evgeny E. Microorganisms Article The rhizosphere community represents an “ecological interface” between plant and soil, providing the plant with a number of advantages. Despite close connection and mutual influence in this system, the knowledge about the connection of plant and rhizosphere diversity is still controversial. One of the most valuable factors of this uncertainty is a rough estimation of plant diversity. NGS sequencing can make the estimations of the plant community more precise than classical geobotanical methods. We investigate fallow and crop sites, which are similar in terms of environmental conditions and soil legacy, yet at the same time are significantly different in terms of plant diversity. We explored amplicons of both the plant root mass (ITS1 DNA) and the microbial communities (16S rDNA); determined alpha- and beta-diversity indices and their correlation, and performed differential abundance analysis. In the analysis, there is no correlation between the alpha-diversity indices of plants and the rhizosphere microbial communities. The beta-diversity between rhizosphere microbial communities and plant communities is highly correlated (R = 0.866, p = 0.01). ITS1 sequencing is effective for the description of plant root communities. There is a connection between rhizosphere communities and the composition of plants, but on the alpha-diversity level we found no correlation. In the future, the connection of alpha-diversities should be explored using ITS1 sequencing, even in more similar plant communities—for example, in different synusia. MDPI 2021-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8619031/ /pubmed/34835464 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112339 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Zverev, Aleksei O.
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Pinaev, Aleksandr G.
Provorov, Nikolay A.
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Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection
title Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection
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title_fullStr Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection
title_full_unstemmed Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection
title_short Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection
title_sort diversity indices of plant communities and their rhizosphere microbiomes: an attempt to find the connection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8619031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34835464
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112339
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