Francioli Davide, Cid Geeisy, Kanukollu Saranya, Ulrich Andreas, Hajirezaei Mohammad-Reza, Kolb Steffen
Microbial Biogeochemistry, Research Area Landscape Functioning, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research e.V. (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany.
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany.
Front Microbiol. 2021 Nov 5;12:773116. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.773116. eCollection 2021.
Flooding affects both above- and below-ground ecosystem processes, and it represents a substantial threat for crop and cereal productivity under climate change. Plant-associated microbiota play a crucial role in plant growth and fitness, but we still have a limited understanding of the response of the crop-microbiota complex under extreme weather events, such as flooding. Soil microbes are highly sensitive to abiotic disturbance, and shifts in microbial community composition, structure and functions are expected when soil conditions are altered due to flooding events (e.g., anoxia, pH alteration, changes in nutrient concentration). Here, we established a pot experiment to determine the effects of flooding stress on the spring wheat-microbiota complex. Since plant phenology could be an important factor in the response to hydrological stress, flooding was induced only once and at different plant growth stages (PGSs), such as tillering, booting and flowering. After each flooding event, we measured in the control and flooded pots several edaphic and plant properties and characterized the bacterial community associated to the rhizosphere and roots of wheat plant using a metabarcoding approach. In our study, flooding caused a significant reduction in plant development and we observed dramatic shifts in bacterial community composition at each PGS in which the hydrological stress was induced. However, a more pronounced disruption in community assembly was always shown in younger plants. Generally, flooding caused a (i) significant increase of bacterial taxa with anaerobic respiratory capabilities, such as members of Firmicutes and Desulfobacterota, (ii) a significant reduction in Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria, (iii) depletion of several putative plant-beneficial taxa, and (iv) increases of the abundance of potential detrimental bacteria. These significant differences in community composition between flooded and control samples were correlated with changes in soil conditions and plant properties caused by the hydrological stress, with pH and total N as the soil, and S, Na, Mn, and Ca concentrations as the root properties most influencing microbial assemblage in the wheat mircobiota under flooding stress. Collectively, our findings demonstrated the role of flooding on restructuring the spring wheat microbiota, and highlighted the detrimental effect of this hydrological stress on plant fitness and performance.
洪水会影响地上和地下的生态系统过程,并且在气候变化的背景下,它对作物和谷物生产力构成了重大威胁。与植物相关的微生物群在植物生长和健康方面发挥着关键作用,但我们对极端天气事件(如洪水)下作物 - 微生物群复合体的反应仍了解有限。土壤微生物对非生物干扰高度敏感,当由于洪水事件导致土壤条件改变(如缺氧、pH值变化、养分浓度变化)时,预计微生物群落的组成、结构和功能会发生变化。在此,我们开展了一项盆栽实验,以确定洪水胁迫对春小麦 - 微生物群复合体的影响。由于植物物候可能是对水文胁迫反应的一个重要因素,因此仅在不同的植物生长阶段(如分蘖期、孕穗期和开花期)进行一次洪水诱导。每次洪水事件后,我们在对照盆和淹水盆中测量了几种土壤和植物特性,并使用元条形码方法对与小麦植株根际和根系相关的细菌群落进行了表征。在我们的研究中,洪水导致植物发育显著减少,并且我们观察到在每个诱导了水文胁迫的植物生长阶段,细菌群落组成都发生了显著变化。然而,较年轻的植株中群落组装的破坏总是更为明显。一般来说,洪水导致(i)具有厌氧呼吸能力的细菌类群显著增加,如厚壁菌门和脱硫杆菌门的成员,(ii)放线菌门和变形菌门显著减少,(iii)几种假定的对植物有益的类群减少,以及(iv)潜在有害细菌的丰度增加。淹水样本和对照样本之间群落组成的这些显著差异与水文胁迫引起的土壤条件和植物特性变化相关,其中pH值和总氮作为土壤因素以及硫、钠、锰和钙浓度作为根系因素对洪水胁迫下小麦微生物群中微生物组合的影响最大。总体而言,我们的研究结果证明了洪水在重塑春小麦微生物群方面的作用,并突出了这种水文胁迫对植物健康和表现的有害影响。