Parizadeh Mona, Mimee Benjamin, Kembel Steven W
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Front Microbiol. 2021 Jan 13;11:619827. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.619827. eCollection 2020.
The phyllosphere and soil are dynamic habitats for microbial communities. Non-pathogenic microbiota, including leaf and soil beneficial bacteria, plays a crucial role in plant growth and health, as well as in soil fertility and organic matter production. In sustainable agriculture, it is important to understand the composition of these bacterial communities, their changes in response to disturbances, and their resilience to agricultural practices. Widespread pesticide application may have had non-target impacts on these beneficial microorganisms. Neonicotinoids are a family of systemic insecticides being vastly used to control soil and foliar pests in recent decades. A few studies have demonstrated the long-term and non-target effects of neonicotinoids on agroecosystem microbiota, but the generality of these findings remains unclear. In this study, we used 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to characterize the effects of neonicotinoid seed treatment on soil and phyllosphere bacterial community diversity, composition and temporal dynamics in a 3-year soybean/corn rotation in Quebec, Canada. We found that habitat, host species and time are stronger drivers of variation in bacterial composition than neonicotinoid application. They, respectively, explained 37.3, 3.2, and 2.9% of the community variation. However, neonicotinoids did have an impact on bacterial community structure, especially on the taxonomic composition of soil communities (2.6%) and over time (2.4%). They also caused a decrease in soil alpha diversity in the middle of the growing season. While the neonicotinoid treatment favored some bacterial genera known as neonicotinoid biodegraders, there was a decline in the relative abundance of some potentially beneficial soil bacteria in response to the pesticide application. Some of these bacteria, such as the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and the bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle, are vital for plant growth and improve soil fertility. Overall, our results indicate that neonicotinoids have non-target effects on phyllosphere and soil bacterial communities in a soybean-corn agroecosystem. Exploring the interactions among bacteria and other organisms, as well as the bacterial functional responses to the pesticide treatment, may enhance our understanding of these non-target effects and help us adapt agricultural practices to control these impacts.
叶际和土壤是微生物群落的动态栖息地。包括叶片和土壤有益细菌在内的非致病微生物群落在植物生长和健康以及土壤肥力和有机质生产中起着至关重要的作用。在可持续农业中,了解这些细菌群落的组成、它们对干扰的响应变化以及它们对农业实践的恢复力非常重要。广泛使用农药可能会对这些有益微生物产生非目标影响。新烟碱类是一类系统性杀虫剂,近几十年来被广泛用于控制土壤和叶面害虫。一些研究已经证明了新烟碱类对农业生态系统微生物群的长期和非目标影响,但这些发现的普遍性仍不清楚。在本研究中,我们使用16S rRNA基因扩增子测序来表征新烟碱类种子处理对加拿大魁北克省三年大豆/玉米轮作中土壤和叶际细菌群落多样性、组成和时间动态的影响。我们发现,与新烟碱类农药的施用相比,栖息地、寄主物种和时间是细菌组成变化的更强驱动因素。它们分别解释了群落变异的37.3%、3.2%和2.9%。然而,新烟碱类确实对细菌群落结构有影响,特别是对土壤群落的分类组成(2.6%)和随时间的影响(2.4%)。它们还导致生长季节中期土壤α多样性下降。虽然新烟碱类处理有利于一些已知的新烟碱类生物降解细菌属,但施用农药后,一些潜在有益土壤细菌的相对丰度有所下降。其中一些细菌,如促进植物生长的根际细菌和参与氮循环的细菌,对植物生长至关重要,并能提高土壤肥力。总体而言,我们的结果表明,新烟碱类对大豆-玉米农业生态系统中的叶际和土壤细菌群落有非目标影响。探索细菌与其他生物之间的相互作用,以及细菌对农药处理的功能反应,可能会增强我们对这些非目标影响的理解,并帮助我们调整农业实践以控制这些影响。