Diversity and assembly of active bacteria and their potential function along soil aggregates in a paddy field

Ding, Chenxiao, Xu, Xinji, Liu, Yaowei, Huang, Xing, Xi, MengYuan, Liu, Haiyang, Deyett, Elizabeth, Dumont, Marc G., Di, Hongjie, Hernández, Marcela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1041-785X, Xu, Jianming and Li, Yong (2023) Diversity and assembly of active bacteria and their potential function along soil aggregates in a paddy field. Science of the Total Environment, 866. ISSN 0048-9697

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Abstract

Numerous studies have found that soil microbiomes differ at the aggregate level indicating they provide spatially heterogeneous habitats for microbial communities to develop. However, an understanding of the assembly processes and the functional profile of microbes at the aggregate level remain largely rudimentary, particularly for those active members in soil aggregates. In this study, we investigated the diversity, co-occurrence network, assembly process and predictive functional profile of active bacteria in aggregates of different sizes using H218O-based DNA stable isotope probing (SIP) and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Most of the bacterial reads were active with 91 % of total reads incorporating labelled water during the incubation. The active microbial community belonged mostly of Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria, with a relative abundance of 55.32 % and 28.12 %, respectively. Assembly processes of the active bacteria were more stochastic than total bacteria, while the assembly processes of total bacteria were more influenced by deterministic processes. Furthermore, many functional profiles such as environmental information processing increased in active bacteria (19.39 %) compared to total bacteria (11.22 %). After incubation, the diversity and relative abundance of active bacteria of certain phyla increased, such as Proteobacteria (50.70 % to 59.95 %), Gemmatimonadetes (2.63 % to 4.11 %), and Bacteroidetes (1.50 % to 2.84 %). In small macroaggregates (SMA: 0.25-2 mm), the active bacterial community and its assembly processes differed from that of other soil aggregates (MA: microaggregates,

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Molecular Microbiology
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2024 17:30
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2024 01:39
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97574
DOI:	10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161360

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