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Rhizosphere microbial diversity in rhizosphere of Pinellia ternata intercropped with maize

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Dry tubers of Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit are used in traditional Chinese medicine. Commonly known as “banxia” in China, the tubers contain valuable compounds, including alkaloids and polysaccharides that are widely used in pharmaceuticals. The quantity and quality of these important compounds are affected by whether P. ternata is grown as a sole crop or as an intercrop, and P. ternata cultivation has become challenging in recent years. By intercropping P. ternata, its maximum yield, as well as large numbers of chemical components, can be realized. Here, a large data set derived from next-generation sequencing was used to compare changes in the bacterial communities in rhizosphere soils of P. ternata and maize grown as sole crops and as intercrops. The overall microbial population in the rhizosphere of intercropped P. ternata was significantly larger than that of sole-cropped P. ternata, whereas the numbers of distinct microbial genera, ranging from 552 to 559 among treatments, were not significantly different between the two rhizospheres. The relative abundances of the genera differed. Specifically, the numbers of Acidobacteria and Anaerolineaceae species were significantly greater, and those of Bacillus were significantly lower, in the intercropped P. ternata rhizosphere than in the sole-cropped rhizosphere.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Project of China [No.2017YFC1700700].

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  1. Hamza Armghan Noushahi and Zhenxing Zhu have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Hamza Armghan Noushahi, Zhenxing Zhu, He Beibei, Maimoona Zafar, Mohammad Murtaza Alami & Shaohua Shu

  2. Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan

    Hamza Armghan Noushahi & Muhammad Asad

  3. National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Aamir Hamid Khan

  4. Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Umair Ahmed

  5. National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 4300070, China

    Muhammad Haroon

  6. Institute of Applied Mycology, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Mubashar Hussain

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HAN, ZZ, and SS designed the study; HAN wrote the MS; HAN, AHK, UA, MH, MA, and MMA helped create diagrams; HAN, MZ, UA, HB, AHK, MH, MMA, MH, and SS revised the MS; SS supervised All the authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Noushahi, H.A., Zhu, Z., Khan, A.H. et al. Rhizosphere microbial diversity in rhizosphere of Pinellia ternata intercropped with maize. 3 Biotech 11, 469 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-021-03011-3

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