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Shifts in taxonomic and functional microbial diversity with agriculture: How fragile is the Brazilian Cerrado?

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Title
Shifts in taxonomic and functional microbial diversity with agriculture: How fragile is the Brazilian Cerrado?
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BMC Microbiology, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12866-016-0657-z
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Renata Carolini Souza, Iêda Carvalho Mendes, Fábio Bueno Reis-Junior, Fabíola Marques Carvalho, Marco Antonio Nogueira, Ana Tereza Ribeiro Vasconcelos, Vânia Aparecida Vicente, Mariangela Hungria

Abstract

The Cerrado-an edaphic type of savannah- comprises the second largest biome of the Brazilian territory and is the main area for grain production in the country, but information about the impact of land conversion to agriculture on microbial diversity is still scarce. We used a shotgun metagenomic approach to compare undisturbed (native) soil and soils cropped for 23 years with soybean/maize under conservation tillage-"no-till" (NT)-and conventional tillage (CT) systems in the Cerrado biome. Soil management and fertilizer inputs with the introduction of agriculture improved chemical properties, but decreased soil macroporosity and microbial biomass of carbon and nitrogen. Principal coordinates analyses confirmed different taxonomic and functional profiles for each treatment. There was predominance of the Bacteria domain, especially the phylum Proteobacteria, with higher numbers of sequences in the NT and CT treatments; Archaea and Viruses also had lower numbers of sequences in the undisturbed soil. Within the Alphaproteobacteria, there was dominance of Rhizobiales and of the genus Bradyrhizobium in the NT and CT systems, attributed to massive inoculation of soybean, and also of Burkholderiales. In contrast, Rhizobium, Azospirillum, Xanthomonas, Pseudomonas and Acidobacterium predominated in the native Cerrado. More Eukaryota, especially of the phylum Ascomycota were detected in the NT. The functional analysis revealed lower numbers of sequences in the five dominant categories for the CT system, whereas the undisturbed Cerrado presented higher abundance. High impact of agriculture in taxonomic and functional microbial diversity in the biome Cerrado was confirmed. Functional diversity was not necessarily associated with taxonomic diversity, as the less conservationist treatment (CT) presented increased taxonomic sequences and reduced functional profiles, indicating a strategy to try to maintain soil functioning by favoring taxa that are probably not the most efficient for some functions. Our results highlight that underneath the rustic appearance of the Cerrado vegetation there is a fragile soil microbial community.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 3 2%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 148 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 31 20%
Researcher 24 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 11%
Student > Bachelor 17 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 10%
Other 17 11%
Unknown 31 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 69 45%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 7%
Environmental Science 9 6%
Chemistry 3 2%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 1%
Other 15 10%
Unknown 44 29%
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