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Characterization of the microbial community response to replant diseases in peach orchards
LI Wei-hua, CHEN Peng, WANG Yu-zhu, LIU Qi-zhi
2023, 22 (4): 1082-1092.   DOI: 10.1016/j.jia.2022.08.121
Abstract213)      PDF in ScienceDirect      

This study attempted to monitor the development of microbial communities and reveal the correlation between the soil microbial community and soil nutrient factors over different years following the replanting of peach trees.  The replanted soil (RS) and nonreplanted soil (NRS) were collected from peach orchards with different growth years (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 years) in the same region.  The soil bacterial and fungal community diversities were analyzed by high-throughput sequencing technology.  Redundancy analysis (RDA) was used to show the correlation between the soil microbial community and environmental variables.  The alpha diversities of the bacterial and fungal communities indicated that RS contained a higher abundance of bacterial and fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) than NRS.  NMDS and ANOSIM analyses showed that the soil bacterial and fungal communities were significantly (P<0.01) affected by planting years, and that the main changes occurred in the first and ninth planting years.  The presence of the bacterial orders Sphingobacteriales, Burkholderiales and Actinomycetales changed significantly after replanting.  Some bacteria associated with bioremediation, such as Burkholderiales and Intrasporangiaceae, and some harmful pathogens, such as Penicillium and Ophiostomatales, significantly increased after replanting (LDA score>3.0).  In addition, the soil nutrient contents were lower in RS than in NRS in the early stage (1–5 years), and the RDA showed that bacterial and fungal phyla are closely associated with environmental variables, including the potential of hydrogen (pH), ammonium nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP) and available potassium (AK).  These results lead to a deeper understanding of the microbial responses to replanting in peach orchards. 

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Changes in fungal community and diversity in strawberry rhizosphere soil after 12 years in the greenhouse
LI Wei-hua, LIU Qi-zhi
2019, 18 (3): 677-687.   DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(18)62003-9
Abstract278)      PDF (829KB)(205)      
Soil fungi play a very important role in the soil ecological environment.  In agricultural production, long-term monoculture and continuous cropping lead to changes in fungal community diversity.  However, the effects of long-term monoculture and continuous cropping on strawberry plant health and fungal community diversity have not been elucidated.  In this study, using high-throughput sequencing (HTS), we compared the fungal community and diversity of strawberry rhizosphere soil after various durations of continuous cropping (0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years).  The results showed that soil fungal diversity increased with consecutive cropping years.  Specifically, the soil-borne disease pathogens Fusarium and Guehomyces were significantly increased after strawberry continuous cropping, and the abundance of nematicidal (Arthrobotrys) fungi decreased from the fourth year of continuous cropping.  The results of correlation analysis suggest that these three genera might be key fungi that contribute to the changes in soil properties that occur during continuous cropping.  In addition, physicochemical property analysis showed that the soil nutrient content began to decline after the fourth year of continuous cropping.  Spearman’s correlation analysis showed that soil pH, available potassium (AK) and ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N) were the most important edaphic factors leading to contrasting beneficial and pathogenic associations across consecutive strawberry cropping systems.  
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Effect of long-term continuous cropping of strawberry on soil bacterial community structure and diversity
LI Wei-hua, LIU Qi-zhi, CHEN Peng
2018, 17 (11): 2570-2582.   DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(18)61944-6
Abstract365)      PDF in ScienceDirect      
Long-term monoculture leads to continuous cropping (CC) problems, which complicate agricultural production, both locally and abroad.  This study contrasted the different bacterial community compositions, physicochemical properties and enzyme activities of strawberry soil subjected to CC, CC rhizosphere (CCR), non-CC (NCC) and non-CC rhizosphere (NCCR) treatments.  The soil physicochemical properties and enzyme activities were significantly reduced after long-term CC.  In addition, five variation trends were observed for the 11 major bacterial genera in the soil.  Sphingomonas was the only stable group among all treatments.  The proportions of Novosphingobium, Rhodoplanes, Povalibacter, Cellvibrio and Stenotrophobacter decreased after CC.  The relative abundances of Pelagibius, Thioprofundum and Allokutzneria increased only in the CC treatment.  Nitrospira were more abundant in rhizosphere soil than in non-rhizosphere soil.  The relative abundance of Bacillus increased after CC.  Redundancy analysis revealed that Bacillus, Pelagibius and Allokutzneria had significant negative correlations with the soil physicochemical properties and enzyme activities.  Therefore, these genera may be the key bacteria influenced by the physicochemical properties and enzyme activities altered by replanting.  These results indicate that long-term CC of strawberry leads to less favourable rhizosphere soil conditions, which can be understood as a stress-induced response of the bacterial community diversity.  Further research is needed to determine how the quality of soil is reduced by the shift in the diversity of the soil bacterial community.
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