Metagenomic Analysis of Some Potential Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in Arable Soils at Different Formation Processes

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• 作者：Agnieszka Wolińska ; Agnieszka Kuźniar ; Urszula Zielenkiewicz…
• 关键词：Soil metagenomes ; Next ; generation sequencing ; Nitrogen ; fixing bacteria ; Arable soils ; Wastelands
• 刊名：Microbial Ecology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：73
• 期：1
• 页码：162-176
• 全文大小：1565KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Microbiology; Ecology; Microbial Ecology; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Nature Conservation; Water Quality/Water Pollution;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1432-184X
• 卷排序：73

文摘

The main goal of the study was to determine the diversity of the potential nitrogen-fixing (PNF) bacteria inhabiting agricultural (A) soils versus wastelands serving as controls (C). The soils were classified into three groups based on the formation process: autogenic soils (Albic Luvisols, Brunic Arenosols, Haplic Phaeozem) formed on loess material, hydrogenic soils (Mollic Gleysols, Eutric Fluvisol, Eutric Histosol) formed under the effect of stagnant water and lithogenic soils (Rendzina Leptosols) formed on limestone. In order to determine the preferable conditions for PNF bacteria, the relationships between the soil chemical features and bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were tested. Additionally, the nitrogen content and fertilisation requirement of the lithogenic (LG), autogenic (AG) and hydrogenic (HG) soils were discussed. The composition of the bacterial communities was analysed with the next-generation sequencing (NGS) by the Ion Torrent™ technology. The sequences were clustered into OTU based on a 99 % similarity threshold. The arable soils tested were distinctly dominated by β-Proteobacteria representatives of PNF bacteria belonging to the genus Burkholderia. Bacteria from the α-Proteobacteria class and Devosia genus were subdominants. A free-living Cyanobacteria population dominated in A rather than in C soils. We have found that both soil agricultural management and soil formation processes are the most conducive factors for PNF bacteria, as a majority of these microorganisms inhabit the AG group of soils, whilst the LG soils with the lowest abundance of PNF bacteria revealed the need for additional mineral fertilisation. Our studies have also indicated that there are close relationships between soil classification with respect to soil formation processes and PNF bacteria preference for occupation of soil niches.