Journal Article

Composition and diversity of rhizosphere fungal community in Coptis chinensis Franch. continuous cropping fields

Wu, Xiaoli, Li, Longyun, Wang, Yu, Song, Xuhong, Pan, Yuan

2018

Overview

In this study, effects of continuous cropping on soil properties, enzyme activities, and relative abundance, community composition and diversity of fungal taxa were investigated. Rhizosphere soil from field continuously cropped for one-year, three-year and five-year by Coptis chinensis Franch. was collected and analyzed. Illumina high-throughput sequencing analysis showed that continuous cropping of C. chinensis resulted in a significant and continuous decline in the richness and diversity of soil fungal population. Ascomycota, Zygomycota, Basidiomycota, and Glomeromycota were the dominant phyla of fungi detected in rhizosphere soil. Fungal genera such as Phoma, Volutella, Pachycudonia, Heterodermia, Gibberella, Cladosporium, Trichocladium, and Sporothrix, were more dominant in continuously cropped samples for three-year and five-year compared to that for one-year. By contrast, genera, such as Zygosaccharomyces, Pseudotaeniolina, Hydnum, Umbelopsis, Humicola, Crustoderma, Psilocybe, Coralloidiomyces, Mortierella, Polyporus, Pyrenula, and Monographella showed higher relative abundance in one-year samples than that in three-year and five-year samples. Cluster analysis of the fungal communities from three samples of rhizosphere soil from C. chinensis field revealed that the fungal community composition, diversity, and structure were significantly affected by the continuous cropping. Continuous cropping of C. chinensis also led to significant declines in soil pH, urease, and catalase activities. Redundancy analysis showed that the soil pH had the most significant effect on soil fungal population under continuous cropping of C. chinensis.

• Publisher: Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subject: Abundance / Agricultural production / Agriculture - methods / Biodiversity / Biology and Life Sciences / Care and treatment / Catalase / Cluster Analysis / Communities / Community composition / Composition / Continuous cropping / Coptis / Coptis - microbiology / Coptis chinensis / Cropping systems / Crops, Agricultural - microbiology / Diabetes / Diabetes mellitus / Ecology and Environmental Sciences / Engineering research / Enzymatic activity / Enzymes / Fungi / Fungi - enzymology / Fungi - genetics / Fusarium oxysporum / Genetic aspects / Herbal medicine / Humicola / Hydrogen-Ion Concentration / Loam soils / Next-generation sequencing / pH effects / Plant diseases / Plant Roots - microbiology / Plants, Medicinal - microbiology / Redundancy / Relative abundance / Rhizosphere / Soil - chemistry / Soil investigations / Soil Microbiology / Soil microorganisms / Soil pH / Soil properties / Time Factors / Trichoderma / Urease