Reduced chemodiversity suppresses rhizosphere microbiome functioning in the mono-cropped agroecosystems

Background Rhizodeposits regulate rhizosphere interactions, processes, nutrient and energy flow, and plant-microbe communication and thus play a vital role in maintaining soil and plant health. However, it remains unclear whether and how alteration in belowground carbon allocation and chemodiversity...

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Published in:Microbiome 2022-07, Vol.10 (1), p.1-108, Article 108
Main Authors: Li, Pengfa, Liu, Jia, Saleem, Muhammad, Li, Guilong, Luan, Lu, Wu, Meng, Li, Zhongpei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural management
Antibiotics
Arachis hypogaea
Biodiversity
Carbon
Chemical communication
Chemodiversity
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
DNA sequencing
DNA-SIP
Ecosystems
Energy flow
Experiments
Hypotheses
Metabolomics
Metagenomics
Microbiome functioning
Microbiomes
Mono-cropped agroecosystem
Plant growth
Quorum sensing
Rhizodeposits
Rhizosphere
Seeds
Software
Stochasticity
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Summary:Background Rhizodeposits regulate rhizosphere interactions, processes, nutrient and energy flow, and plant-microbe communication and thus play a vital role in maintaining soil and plant health. However, it remains unclear whether and how alteration in belowground carbon allocation and chemodiversity of rhizodeposits influences microbiome functioning in the rhizosphere ecosystems. To address this research gap, we investigated the relationship of rhizosphere carbon allocation and chemodiversity with microbiome biodiversity and functioning during peanut (Arachis hypogaea) continuous mono-cropping. After continuously labeling plants with 13CO2, we studied the chemodiversity and composition of rhizodeposits, along with the composition and diversity of active rhizosphere microbiome using metabolomic, amplicon, and shotgun metagenomic sequencing approaches based on DNA stable-isotope probing (DNA-SIP). Results Our results indicated that enrichment and depletion of rhizodeposits and active microbial taxa varied across plant growth stages and cropping durations. Specifically, a gradual decrease in the rhizosphere carbon allocation, chemodiversity, biodiversity and abundance of plant-beneficial taxa (such as Gemmatimonas, Streptomyces, Ramlibacter, and Lysobacter), and functional gene pathways (such as quorum sensing and biosynthesis of antibiotics) was observed with years of mono-cropping. We detected significant and strong correlations between rhizodeposits and rhizosphere microbiome biodiversity and functioning, though these were regulated by different ecological processes. For instance, rhizodeposits and active bacterial communities were mainly governed by deterministic and stochastic processes, respectively. Overall, the reduction in carbon deposition and chemodiversity during peanut continuous mono-cropping tended to suppress microbial biodiversity and its functions in the rhizosphere ecosystem. Conclusions Our results, for the first time, provide the evidence underlying the mechanism of rhizosphere microbiome malfunctioning in mono-cropped systems. Our study opens new avenues to deeply disentangle the complex plant-microbe interactions from the perspective of rhizodeposits chemodiversity and composition and will serve to guide future microbiome research for improving the functioning and services of soil ecosystems. Video abstract
ISSN:2049-2618
2049-2618
DOI:10.1186/s40168-022-01287-y