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Cropping history affects nodulation and symbiotic efficiency of distinct hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.) genotypes with resident soil rhizobia |
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| Authors: | N V Mothapo J M Grossman T Sooksa-nguan J Maul S L Bräuer W Shi |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University, 4234 Williams Hall, 101 Derieux Street, Box 7619, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA 2. Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University, 4235 Williams Hall, 101 Derieux Street, Box 7619, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA 3. USDA-ARS Sustainable Agriculture Systems Lab, 10300 Baltimore Ave, Beltsville, MD, USA 4. Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Rankin Science Building, Boone, NC, 28608, USA |
| Abstract: | Compatible rhizobia strains are essential for nodulation and biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) of hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth, HV). We evaluated how past HV cultivation affected nodulation and BNF across host genotypes. Five groups of similar HV genotypes were inoculated with soil dilutions from six paired fields, three with 10-year HV cultivation history (HV+) and three with no history (HV?), and used to determine efficiency of rhizobia nodulation and BNF. Nodulation was equated to nodule number and mass, BNF to plant N and Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viceae (Rlv) soil cell counts using qPCR to generate an amplicon of targeted Rlv nodD genes. Both HV cultivation history and genotype affected BNF parameters. Plants inoculated with HV+ soil dilutions averaged 60 and 70 % greater nodule number and mass, respectively. Such plants also had greater biomass and tissue N than those inoculated with HV? soil. Plant biomass and tissue N were strongly correlated to nodule mass (r 2?=?0.80 and 0.50, respectively), while correlations to nodule number were low (r 2?=?0.50 and 0.31, respectively). Although hairy vetch rhizobia occur naturally in soils, past cultivation of HV was shown in this study to enhance nodulation gene-carrying Rlv population size and/or efficiency of rhizobia capable of nodulation and N fixation. |
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