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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (17): 26-36.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0480

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Effects of Borreria latifolia on Microbial Community Structure Characteristics in Hilly Orchards in South China

ZHANG Taijie(), ZHANG Chun, GUO Wenlei, TIAN Xingshan()   

  1. Institute of Plant Protection, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences/ Key Laboratory of Green Prevention and Control on Fruits and Vegetables in South China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of High Technology for Plant Protection, Guangzhou 510640
  • Received:2022-06-07 Revised:2022-08-12 Online:2023-06-15 Published:2023-06-12

Abstract:

To explore the ecological effects of planting Borreria latifolia on soil nutrients and microbes in hilly orchards of south China, the effects of sod culture with Borreria latifolia in a hilly litchi orchard on soil basic physicochemical indexes and soil microbial communities were compared with those of sod culture with natural grass and clear tillage. The results showed that compared with natural grass and clear tillage, sod culture with Borreria latifolia significantly increased the contents of soil organic matter and available nitrogen. Sod culture with Borreria latifolia and natural grass significantly increased the soil bacterial Shannon and Simpson diversity indices relative to the clear tillage, but had no significant effect on the α-diversity of fungi. The bacterial Chao1 and PD_whole_tree indices were positively correlated with soil available potassium, and the fungal Shannon index was positively correlated with soil organic matter. A total of 44 bacterial phyla were detected in soil of the litchi orchard, among which Acidobacteria (23.63%-34.87%), Proteobacteria (20.62%-28.57%) and Chloroflexi (9.64%-23.85%) were the dominant bacterial phyla. A total of 13 fungal phyla were detected, among which Ascomycota (55.97%-69.67%), Basidiomycota (7.28%-10.94%) and Glomeromycota (1.15%-3.41%) were the dominant fungal phyla. For fungi at the level of genus, the relative abundance of Archaeorhizomyces in the soil treated with Borreria latifolia accounted for 20.91%, which was dramatically greater than those in the soil of sod culture with natural grass and clear tillage. The redundancy analysis of the relative abundance of dominant microbial groups and soil physicochemical properties showed that soil organic matter, available nitrogen and available potassium had greater impacts on bacterial and fungal community structure. To sum up, sod culture with Borreria latifolia in hilly orchards of south China could increase soil nutrient levels, and improve soil bacterial and fungal community structure and diversity.

Key words: Borreria latifolia, hilly orchard, soil nutrients, soil microbes, Archaeorhizomycetales