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Analysis of the structure of bacterial and fungal communities in disease suppressive and disease conducive tobacco-planting soils in China

Lin Gao https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-1904 A , Rui Wang B , Jiaming Gao B , Fangming Li B , Guanghua Huang C , Guang Huo B , Zhiyu Liu B , Wei Tang B and Guoming Shen A D
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A Tobacco Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China.

B Hubei Corporation of China National Tobacco Corporation, Wuhan 430000, China.

C China Tobacco Zhejiang Industrial Co. Ltd., Hangzhou 310004, China.

D Corresponding author. Email: gllg2000@126.com

Soil Research 58(1) 35-40 https://doi.org/10.1071/SR19204
Submitted: 31 July 2019  Accepted: 10 September 2019   Published: 2 October 2019

Abstract

To clarify the differences between microbial communities resident in disease suppressive soil (DSS) and disease conducive soil (DCS) in tobacco cultivation, representative soil samples were collected from tobacco plantations in Shengjiaba, China, and the structure and diversity of the resident bacterial and fungal communities were analysed using high-throughput sequencing technology. Our results showed a greater number of operational taxonomic units associated with bacteria and fungi in DSS than in DCS. At the phylum level, abundances of Chloroflexi, Saccharibacteria, Firmicutes, and Planctomycetes in DSS were lower than in DCS, but abundance of Gemmatimonadetes was significantly higher. Abundances of Zygomycota and Chytridiomycota were higher in DSS than DCS, but abundance of Rozellomycota was significantly lower. At the genus level, abundances of 18 bacterial and nine fungal genera varied significantly between DSS and DCS. Relative abundances of Acidothermus, Microbacterium, Curtobacterium, and Colletotrichum were higher in DCS than DSS. The Shannon and Chao1 indices of DSS microbial communities were higher than those of DCS communities. High microbial diversity reduces the incidence of soil-borne diseases in tobacco plantations and promotes the formation of DSSs.

Additional keywords: high-throughput sequencing technology, soil microbial community structure.


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