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Sugarcane rhizosphere microbiota: exploring diversity across varied topographies and growth environments

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Background and aims

The global agricultural importance of sugarcane highlights the crucial need to understand the dynamics of rhizosphere microbiota for maximizing yields. Guangxi, a crucial sugarcane production region in China, boasts diverse landscapes. This study aims to identify microbial variations in wild soil across different terrains and to elucidate differences between planted and wild soils within plains sugarcane rhizospheres.

Methods

A comprehensive examination of soil microbiota was conducted in wild sugarcane rhizospheres spanning mountains, hills, and plain, alongside planted sugarcane rhizospheres in the plains of Guangxi, China. A total of 75 soil samples underwent high-throughput sequencing. The analysis employed microbial diversity assessment, species correlation, and functional profiling.

Results

The analysis unveiled distinct disparities in microbiota composition among various wild soil topographies and between planting and wild soils within plains sugarcane rhizospheres. Notably, certain microorganisms, such as Nitrospira and Streptomyces in hills, Mesorhizobium thiogangeticum in mountain, and Clonostachys rosea and Stachybotrys bisbyi in plain, exhibited significantly higher proportions. Planting soil demonstrated lower richness and diversity of bacteria compared to wild soil. Exclusive identification of microbial species such as Lysobacter niastensis, Vicinamibacter silvestris, and Aspergillus aculeatus in wild soils suggests potential benefits for sugarcane growth. Functional profiling indicated enriched metabolic pathways in wild soils, particularly those associated with nutrient cycling and organic matter degradation.

Conclusion

This study offers a comparative analysis of sugarcane rhizosphere microbiota, highlighting potentially beneficial microbial species. These insights advance agricultural microbiology and soil science, providing a foundation for sustainable improvements in sugarcane agriculture and crop productivity.

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Data availability

The sequence data have been submitted to the GenBank Sequence Read Archive (accession number PRJNA1020593).

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Guangxi Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Genetic Improvement (21-238-16-K-03-01) to B.W., National Natural Science Foundation of China (32160486) to X.L., Research Start-up Funding of Guangxi Academy of Sciences (2021YBJ704) to Y.Q.

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  1. Bin Wang, Xihui Liu and Yanhua Qi contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Institute of Biological Sciences and Technology, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, China

    Bin Wang, Yanhua Qi & Wenxia Fang

  2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Genetic Improvement, Sugarcane Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, China

    Xihui Liu & Zhongliang Chen

  3. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Yongguan Zhu

  4. Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, NHC Key Lab of Reproduction Regulation, Shanghai Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Shanghai, 200237, China

    Yuezhu Wang & Huajun Zheng

  5. State Key Lab for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical AgroBiological Resources and Guangxi Key Lab for Sugarcane Biology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China

    Wenxia Fang

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Wang, B., Liu, X., Qi, Y. et al. Sugarcane rhizosphere microbiota: exploring diversity across varied topographies and growth environments. Plant Soil (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06688-6

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