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Competing Factors of Compost Concentration and Proximity to Root Affect the Distribution of Streptomycetes

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Streptomycetes are important members of soil microbial communities and are particularly active in the degradation of recalcitrant macromolecules and have been implicated in biological control of plant disease. Using a streptomycetes-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) methodology coupled with band excision and sequence analysis, we examined the effect of grape marc compost amendment to soil on cucumber plant–associated streptomycetes community composition. We observed that both compost amendment and proximity to the root surface influenced the streptomycetes community composition. A strong root selection for a soil-derived Streptomycete, most closely related to Streptomyces thermotolerans, S. iakyrus, and S. thermocarboxydus, was independent of compost amendment rate. However, while the impact of compost amendment was mitigated with increasing proximity to the root, high levels of compost amendment resulted in the detection of compost-derived species on the root surface. Conversely, in rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils, the community composition of streptomycetes was affected strongly even by modest compost amendment. The application of a streptomycetes-specific PCR primer set combined with DGGE analysis provided a rapid means of examining the distribution and ecology of streptomycetes in soils and plant-associated environments.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Patricia Bucki; of Sharon Zmora for chemical analyses of the compost; and of Yair Aharonowitz and Dan Zutra, for donation of isolates for the testing of the primers. This research was supported by research grant US-3108-99 from BARD, the United States–Israel Bi-national Agriculture Research and Development Fund, and by European Union grants RECOVEG and Compost Management projects cluster.

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    Ehud Inbar, Stefan J. Green & Yitzhak Hadar

  2. Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan, Israel

    Ehud Inbar, Stefan J. Green & Dror Minz

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Inbar, E., Green, S.J., Hadar, Y. et al. Competing Factors of Compost Concentration and Proximity to Root Affect the Distribution of Streptomycetes. Microb Ecol 50, 73–81 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-004-0111-x

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