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Provedor de dados: | 21
País: | Germany
Título: | A long-term field experiment demonstrates the influence of tillage on the bacterial potential to produce soil structure-stabilizing agents such as exopolysaccharides and lipopolysaccharides
Autores: | Cania, Barbara; Vestergaard, Gisle; Krauss, Maike; Fliessbach, Andreas; Schloter, Michael; Schulz, Stefanie.
Data: | 2019
Ano: | 2019
Palavras-chave: | Soil quality; Soil biology; Biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Resumo: | Background: Stable soil aggregates are essential for optimal crop growth and preventing soil erosion. However, tillage  is often used in agriculture to loosen the soil, which disrupts the integrity of these aggregates. Soil aggregation can be  enhanced by bacteria through their ability to produce exopolysaccharides and lipopolysaccharides. These compounds  stabilize soil aggregates by “gluing” soil particles together. However, it has yet to be shown how tillage influences the  bacterial potential to produce aggregate-stabilizing agents. Therefore, we sampled conventional and reduced tillage treatments at 0–10 cm, 10–20 cm and 20–50 cm from a long-term field trial in Frick, Switzerland. We compared the stable aggregate fraction of the soil and the bacterial potential to produce exopolysaccharides (EPS) and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) under different tillage regimes by employing a shotgun metagenomic approach. We  established a method which combines hidden Markov model searches with blasts against sequences derived from the  Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes database to analyze genes specific for the biosynthesis of these compounds.  Results: Our data revealed that the stable aggregate fraction as well as the bacterial potential to produce EPS and LPS were comparable under both tillage regimes. The highest potential to produce these compounds was found in the  upper soil layer, which was disturbed by tillage, but had higher content of organic carbon compared to the layer below  the tillage horizon. Additionally, key players of EPS and LPS production differed at different sampling depths. Some  families with high potential to produce EPS and LPS, such as Chitinophagaceae and Bradyrhizobiaceae, were more abundant in the upper soil layers, while others, e.g. Nitrospiraceae and Planctomycetaceae, preferred the lowest sampled  soil depth. Each family had the potential to form a limited number of different aggregate-stabilizing agents.  Conclusions: Our results indicate that conventional tillage and reduced tillage equally promote the bacterial potential to  produce EPS and LPS in the tillage horizon. However, as major bacterial groups triggering EPS and LPS formation were not the same, it is likely that gene expression pattern differ in the different treatments due to various pathways of gene  induction and transcription in different bacterial species.
Tipo: | Journal paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

http://orgprints.org/35214/1/Cania_EnvMic_2019.pdf

Cania, Barbara; Vestergaard, Gisle; Krauss, Maike; Fliessbach, Andreas; Schloter, Michael and Schulz, Stefanie   (2019) A long-term field experiment demonstrates the influence of tillage on the bacterial potential to produce soil structure-stabilizing agents such as exopolysaccharides and lipopolysaccharides.   Environmental Microbiome, 14 (1), pp. 1-14.

Relação:

http://orgprints.org/35214/

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-019-0341-7

Formato: | application/pdf