Abstract
Aims
Soil microbiome roles in agriculture is becoming more and more important. This importance is also reflected on the way plants are seen: complex organisms formed by the plant itself plus the microbes inhabiting its tissues, including the ones on the surface of every organ and the ones adhered or in proximity to the roots. In addition, as already demonstrated, the microbial community associated with a specific soil is able to predetermine the health status of crops. For all the above mentioned reasons, defining the microbial composition of agricultural soils and the factors driving the assemblage is pivotal to achieve more sustainable agriculture and viticulture.
Methods
We aimed to investigate how the soil geological characteristics influence the microbiome composition associated with close geographically related vineyards. Moreover, we studied both the top (15 cm in depth) and deep (120 cm in depth) soil layers as anthropically influenced and almost-undisturbed soil, respectively.
Results
We observed slightly different microbial communities despite the close geographical proximity of the two vineyards, which is considered one of the main determinants of the soil microbiome composition. In addition, we found that the geological characteristics of the two soils influence both the root distribution and the accumulation of pathogen- and symbiont-related genera. Sensory profiles of the Grillo wines from the two different soils confirmed the tight link between soil origin and wine traits.
Conclusions
In the present study, we highlight that the geological characteristics of soil can influence soil microbial composition and assemblage in close geographically related vineyards, with a potential effect on wine features.
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Data availability
The SRA accession numbers of the NGS reported in this paper are deposited in NCBI under the BioProject PRJNA655455; BioSample SAMN15735114 and SAMN15735115; SRA accession SRR12436974 and SRR12436973.
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Part of the work was supported by Settesoli winery S.C.A. Menfi (AG) Sicily (IT) and by the BIOPROME in the frame of the DiBio project founded by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture.
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L.N. and W.C. designed the experimental system, carried out the wet lab experiments, analysed data and wrote the manuscript draft. D.T., L.N. and W.C. worked out vine roots system. D.T. analysed wines sensory description. D.T., A.G, L.M. and G.G. helped to design the experiments, contributed to the writing and carefully revised the manuscript.
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Figure S1.
PCoA representing the four soil samples analysed for 16S sequences (n=3). (PPTX 2244 kb)
Figure S2.
NMDS algorithm based on Bray-Curtis distances matrixes were used to reduce into a bi-dimensional scaling data obtained for bacteria (A), fungi (B) and the overall microbial community (C) (n=3). (PPTX 315 kb)
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Cluster heatmap built using data of both 16S and ITS amplicon sequencing to highlight relationship among samples. (PDF 36 kb)
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Significant co-occurrence network of bacterial communities and interactions among OTUs in soil samples. The nodes are sized according to degree of connection (Supplementary Table 11). Green lines indicate that there are co-occurrence interactions and red lines indicate mutualistic exclusions (n=3). (PPTX 106 kb)
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Significant co-occurrence network of fungal communities and interactions among OTUs in soil samples. The nodes are sized according to degree of connection (Supplementary Table 12). Green lines indicate that there are co-occurrence interactions and red lines indicate mutualistic exclusions (n=3). (PNG 98902 kb)
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Significant co-occurrence network of both bacterial and fungal communities considered together and interactions among OTUs in soil samples. The nodes are sized according to degree of connection (Supplementary Table 13). Green lines indicate that there are co-occurrence interactions and red lines indicate mutualistic exclusions (n=3). (PNG 207531 kb)
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Nerva, L., Moffa, L., Giudice, G. et al. Microscale analysis of soil characteristics and microbiomes reveals potential impacts on plants and fruit: vineyard as a model case study. Plant Soil 462, 525–541 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-04884-2
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