Disentangling plant- and environment-mediated drivers of active rhizosphere bacterial community dynamics during short-term drought

Sreejata Bandopadhyay, Xingxing Li, Alan W. Bowsher, Robert L. Last and Ashley Shade ()
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Sreejata Bandopadhyay: Michigan State University
Xingxing Li: Michigan State University
Alan W. Bowsher: Michigan State University
Robert L. Last: Michigan State University
Ashley Shade: Laboratoire d’Ecologie Microbienne LEM

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Abstract Mitigating the effects of climate stress on crops is important for global food security. The microbiome associated with plant roots, the rhizobiome, can harbor beneficial microbes that alleviate stress, but the factors influencing their recruitment are unclear. We conducted a greenhouse experiment using field soil with a legacy of growing switchgrass and common bean to investigate the impact of short-term drought severity on the recruitment of active bacterial rhizobiome members. We applied 16S rRNA and 16S rRNA gene sequencing for both crops and metabolite profiling for switchgrass. We included planted and unplanted conditions to distinguish environment- versus plant-mediated rhizobiome drivers. Differences in community structure were observed between crops and between drought and watered and planted and unplanted treatments within crops. Despite crop-specific communities, drought rhizobiome dynamics were similar across the two crops. The presence of a plant more strongly explained the rhizobiome variation in bean (17%) than in switchgrass (3%), with a small effect of plant mediation during drought observed only for the bean rhizobiome. The switchgrass rhizobiome was stable despite changes in rhizosphere metabolite profiles between planted and unplanted treatments. We conclude that rhizobiome responses to short-term drought are crop-specific, with possible decoupling of plant exudation from rhizobiome responses.

Date: 2024
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