Subsoil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in arable soil differ from those in topsoil

Moisés A. Sosa-Hernández; Julien Roy; Stefan Hempel; Timo Kautz; Ulrich Köpke; Marie Uksa; Michael Schloter; Tancredi Caruso; Matthias C. Rillig

doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.11.009

Subsoil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in arable soil differ from those in topsoil

Moisés A. Sosa-Hernández, Julien Roy, Stefan Hempel, Timo Kautz, Ulrich Köpke, Marie Uksa, Michael Schloter, Tancredi Caruso, Matthias C. Rillig

Associate Professorship of Environmental Microbiology

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Abstract

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are recognized as important drivers of plant health and productivity in agriculture but very often existing knowledge is limited to the topsoil. With growing interest in the role of subsoil in sustainable agriculture, we used high-throughput Illumina sequencing on a set of samples encompassing drilosphere, rhizosphere and bulk soil, in both top- and subsoil. Our results show subsoil AMF communities harbor unique Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) and that both soil depths differ in community structure both at the OTU and family level. Our results emphasize the distinctness of subsoil AMF communities and the potential role of subsoil as a biodiversity reservoir.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-86
Number of pages	4
Journal	Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Volume	117
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.11.009
State	Published - Feb 2018

Keywords

Agriculture
Arbuscular mycorrhiza
Drilosphere
Illumina MiSeq
Soil depth
Subsoil

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