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Soil Microbial Diversity Affects the Plant-Root Colonization by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

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Terrestrial plants establish symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to exchange water and nutrients. However, the extent to which soil biodiversity influences such association remains still unclear. Here, we manipulated the soil microbial diversity using a “dilution-to-extinction” approach in a controlled pot microcosm system and quantified the root length colonization of maize plants by the AMF Rhizophagus clarus. The experiment was performed by manipulating the soil microbiome within a native and foreign soil having distinct physicochemical properties. Overall, our data revealed significant positive correlations between the soil microbial diversity and AMF colonization. Most importantly, this finding opposes the diversity-invasibility hypothesis and highlights for a potential overall helper effect of the soil biodiversity on plant-AMF symbiosis.

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All sequence data and metadata were deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/) under the BioProject PRJNA599204: “Soil microbial diversity affects the plant-root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA599204).

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Funding

This work was financially supported by FAPESP (proc. 2010/16635-7 and 2011/03487-3) and CAPES (Finance Code 001). We also thank FAPESP for providing financial support to D.A.F. (2013/04388-3).

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  1. Department of Soil Science, ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Dorotéia Alves Ferreira & Fernando Dini Andreote

  2. Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Dorotéia Alves Ferreira, Thais Freitas da Silva & Joana Falcão Salles

  3. Department of Microbiology, ‘Paulo Goes’ Microbiology Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Thais Freitas da Silva

  4. Department of Biology, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Victor Satler Pylro

  5. Department of Plant Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Francisco Dini-Andreote

  6. Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Francisco Dini-Andreote

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DAF, JFS, and FDA developed the experimental design; DAF and TFS performed the experiment and data collection; VSP and FD-A analyzed the data; FD-A wrote the manuscript with contributions from all authors.

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Ferreira, D.A., da Silva, T.F., Pylro, V.S. et al. Soil Microbial Diversity Affects the Plant-Root Colonization by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. Microb Ecol 82, 100–103 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01502-z

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