An amplification-selection model for quantified rhizosphere microbiota assembly
An amplification-selection model for quantified rhizosphere microbiota assembly
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量化根际微生物群组装的扩增选择模型
DOI:
10.1016/j.scib.2020.03.005
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发表时间:
2020
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影响因子:
18.9
通讯作者:
Ertao Wang
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作者:
Xiaolin Wang;Mingxing Wang;Xingguang Xie;Siyi Guo;Yun Zhou;Xuebin Zhang;Nan Yu;Ertao Wang
Plants live in association and interact with a multitude of microorganisms. The prevalent model for rhizosphere recruitment argues that factors produced by root attract the specific bacterial taxa in the rhizosphere and the more specialized bacterial taxa are further enriched within root. Here, we quantified the absolute abundance of root microbiota in Medicago and rice, which revealed that most of the dominant bacterial phyla are significantly elevated in the rhizosphere to different degrees, followed by the recruitment of specific taxa into the root, suggesting an amplificationselection model for root microbiome assembly. Colonization of the rhizosphere (the zone immediately surrounding the root) by microbes is crucial to plant productivity and soil biogeochemical cycles, with plants giving photosynthate to the rhizosphere microbiota and receiving nutrients and water in exchange [1, 2]. The emergence of next-generation sequencing has enabled cultivation-independent analyses of microbiomes and has provided deep insights into the diversity and composition of the bacterial communities associated with diverse hosts, including aboveground and underground compartments of host plants [3]. The relative abundance of bacterial taxa in soil samples, inferred mainly from bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences, has suggested that the bacterial root microbiome forms via a two-step or multiple-step selection process whereby the bacterial community is dense and diverse in bulk soil, and then gradually becomes differentiated and enriched for specific phyla from rhizosphere to root [1, 3–5]. Bacterial phyla of Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria appear to be enriched in the rhizosphere and root endophytic compartment (within the root), whereas Acidobacteria appear to be depleted from the rhizosphere [5–9]. Although the relative abundance of microbial 16S rRNA gene sequences provides important insights into the diversity and composition of bacterial communities, it does not reflect the absolute abundance of microbes. For instance, a specific group within a population can undergo an increase in absolute abundance along with a decrease in the relative abundance. In this way, the relative abundance can mask underlying plant pathology and microbial ecological function [10]. In addition, bacteria often possess different copy numbers of the 16S rRNA gene used to infer relative abundance [11], which has been overlooked in many microbiota studies and could confound relative abundance analyses. To overcome these obstacles, we used a method [10] to absolutely quantify bacterial 16S rRNA gene in bulk soil and rhizocompartments by spiking samples with synthetic chimeric bacterial 16S DNA (Fig. S1 online). For each Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU), we estimated the 16S rRNA gene copy number using the rrnDB database [12], followed the method used for quantitative gut microbiome profiling [13]. We subsequently calculated and evaluated (through comparison with the single copy ropB gene) the absolute abundance-weighted average rRNA operon copy number of bacterial taxa (quantified bacteria abundance)(Figs. S1 and S2 online). We used this approach to quantify the microbial communities in bulk soil, rhizosphere soil and roots of two different plants growing in different soil types, namely, Medicago truncatula (‘Jemalong A170), which represent a plant growing in dry land soil, and rice (Oryza sativa ssp. japonica ‘Nipponbare’), which represent https://doi. org/10.1016/j. scib. 2020.03. 005 2095-9273/© 2020 Science China Press. Published by Elsevier BV and Science China Press. All rights reserved.