Microbiota accompanying different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal isolates influence soil aggregation |
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| Authors: | Matthias C Rillig Emily R Lutgen Philip W Ramsey John N Klironomos James E Gannon |
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| Institution: | aMicrobial Ecology Program, Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive # 4824, Missoula, MT 59812, USA;bDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada N1G 2W1 |
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| Abstract: | Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are key components of ecosystems through their influence on plant communities and ecosystem processes. A major source of information regarding the importance of AMF species richness on process rates are mesocosm experiments using different levels of diversity of AMF as provided by single-species cultures of AMF. Since AMF inocula are generally made available in the form of non-sterile pot culture material, it is possible that AMF symbiosis-associated microbiota are at least partially responsible for some effects hitherto directly attributed to the AMF mycelium. Here, we provide evidence that microbiota associated with single-species cultures of AMF (after long-term pot culture enrichment of 7–8 years) can strongly affect the ecosystem process of soil aggregation. This effect occurred in an AMF isolate specific manner, but in the absence of live and active AMF mycelium. We additionally documented large differences in microbiota communities associated with the different AMF inocula (using PLFA analyses), suggesting that these differences were at least partly responsible for the observed changes in soil aggregation. This result points to AMF–microbiota interactions as a largely unexplored mechanism underlying soil aggregation (and potentially other ecosystem processes). We suggest that a reinterpretation of previous experiments using greenhouse-derived AMF cultures may be necessary, and the need to consider AMF symbiosis-associated microbiota in mechanistic studies of AMF and mycorrhizae in general is emphasized. |
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| Keywords: | Aggregation Arbuscular mycorrhiza Hyphae PLFA Soil bacteria |
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