TY - JOUR
T1 - The stage of soil development modulates rhizosphere effect along a High Arctic desert chronosequence
AU - Mapelli, Francesca
AU - Marasco, Ramona
AU - Fusi, Marco
AU - Scaglia, Barbara
AU - Tsiamis, George
AU - Rolli, Eleonora
AU - Fodelianakis, Stylianos
AU - Bourtzis, Kostas
AU - Ventura, Stefano
AU - Tambone, Fulvia
AU - Adani, Fabrizio
AU - Borin, Sara
AU - Daffonchio, Daniele
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We thank CNR-DTA for the use of the CNR Arctic Station Dirigibile Italia in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. ER was supported by Università degli Studi di Milano (DeFENS), European Social Found and Regione Lombardia (contract 'Dote Ricerca'). This work was partially supported by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). We are particularly grateful to Karoline Faust for essential support on the network analysis.
PY - 2018/1/15
Y1 - 2018/1/15
N2 - In mature soils, plant species and soil type determine the selection of root microbiota. Which of these two factors drives rhizosphere selection in barren substrates of developing desert soils has, however, not yet been established. Chronosequences of glacier forelands provide ideal natural environments to identify primary rhizosphere selection factors along the changing edaphic conditions of a developing soil. Here, we analyze changes in bacterial diversity in bulk soils and rhizospheres of a pioneer plant across a High Arctic glacier chronosequence. We show that the developmental stage of soil strongly modulates rhizosphere community assembly, even though plant-induced selection buffers the effect of changing edaphic factors. Bulk and rhizosphere soils host distinct bacterial communities that differentially vary along the chronosequence. Cation exchange capacity, exchangeable potassium, and metabolite concentration in the soil account for the rhizosphere bacterial diversity. Although the soil fraction (bulk soil and rhizosphere) explains up to 17.2% of the variation in bacterial microbiota, the soil developmental stage explains up to 47.7% of this variation. In addition, the operational taxonomic unit (OTU) co-occurrence network of the rhizosphere, whose complexity increases along the chronosequence, is loosely structured in barren compared with mature soils, corroborating our hypothesis that soil development tunes the rhizosphere effect.
AB - In mature soils, plant species and soil type determine the selection of root microbiota. Which of these two factors drives rhizosphere selection in barren substrates of developing desert soils has, however, not yet been established. Chronosequences of glacier forelands provide ideal natural environments to identify primary rhizosphere selection factors along the changing edaphic conditions of a developing soil. Here, we analyze changes in bacterial diversity in bulk soils and rhizospheres of a pioneer plant across a High Arctic glacier chronosequence. We show that the developmental stage of soil strongly modulates rhizosphere community assembly, even though plant-induced selection buffers the effect of changing edaphic factors. Bulk and rhizosphere soils host distinct bacterial communities that differentially vary along the chronosequence. Cation exchange capacity, exchangeable potassium, and metabolite concentration in the soil account for the rhizosphere bacterial diversity. Although the soil fraction (bulk soil and rhizosphere) explains up to 17.2% of the variation in bacterial microbiota, the soil developmental stage explains up to 47.7% of this variation. In addition, the operational taxonomic unit (OTU) co-occurrence network of the rhizosphere, whose complexity increases along the chronosequence, is loosely structured in barren compared with mature soils, corroborating our hypothesis that soil development tunes the rhizosphere effect.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/626886
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-017-0026-4
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040694009&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41396-017-0026-4
DO - 10.1038/s41396-017-0026-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 29335640
SN - 1751-7362
VL - 12
SP - 1188
EP - 1198
JO - The ISME Journal
JF - The ISME Journal
IS - 5
ER -