Community Assembly of Fungi and Bacteria along Soil-Plant Continuum Differs in a Zoige Wetland
Jie Li, Yuxuan Liu, Peng‐Peng Lü, Yonglong Wang, Zhong‐Feng Li, Yue Zhang, Hui‐Yun Gan, Xingchun Li, Dipa Mandal, Jing Cai, Zixuan Guo, Hui Yao, Liang‐Dong Guo
Abstract
Elucidating the community microbiome assemblage alone the soil-plant continuum will help to better understand the biodiversity maintenance and ecosystem functioning. Here, we examined the fungal and bacterial communities in rhizosphere soil, roots, and leaves of two dominant AM plants and a non-AM plant in Zoige Wetland. We found that along the soil - plant continuum, host plant selection intensity is higher in fungal than in bacterial communities in roots and leaves from rhizosphere soil in each plant species, and differs in fungal and bacterial communities in the AM- and non-AM plants. This is the first report provides evidence of different assembly patterns of fungal and bacterial communities along the soil-plant continuum in the AM- and non-AM plants in the Zoige Wetland.