Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27137
Title: Co-occurring grass species differ in their associated microbial community composition in a temperate native grassland
Contributor(s): Osanai, Yui  (author)orcid ; Bougoure, Damian S (author); Hayden, Helen L (author); Hovenden, Mark J (author)
Publication Date: 2013-07
Early Online Version: 2012-11-20
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1529-4
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27137
Abstract: Background and aims: Specific associations exist between plant species and the soil microbial community and these associations vary between habitat types and different plant groups. However, there is evidence that the associations are highly specific. Hence, we aimed to determine the specificity of plant-microbe relationships amongst co-occurring grass species in a temperate grassland. Methods and results: We examined the broad microbial groups of bacteria and fungi as well as a specific fungal group, the arbuscular mycorrhizal community amongst two dominant C3 and C4 species and one sub-dominant C3 species using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis. We found that the two dominant species were more similar to each other in their bacterial and arbuscular mycorrhizal community composition than either was to the sub-dominant species, but not in their fungal community composition. We also found no clear evidence that those differences were directly linked to soil chemical properties. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that co-occurring grass species have a distinct soil microbial community and T-RFLP analysis is able to detect plant species effect on the microbial community composition on an extremely local scale, providing an insight into the differences in the response of bacterial, fungal and arbuscular mycorrhizal communities to different, but similar and co-occurring, plant species.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Grant Details: ARC/DP0984779
Source of Publication: Plant and Soil, 368(1-2), p. 419-431
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1573-5036
0032-079X
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050303 Soil Biology
060504 Microbial Ecology
060202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 410603 Soil biology
310703 Microbial ecology
310302 Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 960301 Climate Change Adaptation Measures
960811 Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity
960305 Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 190101 Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)
180606 Terrestrial biodiversity
190102 Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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