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- Title
Rhizosphere microbial diversity in rhizosphere of Pinellia ternata intercropped with maize.
- Authors
Noushahi, Hamza Armghan; Zhu, Zhenxing; Khan, Aamir Hamid; Ahmed, Umair; Haroon, Muhammad; Asad, Muhammad; Hussain, Mubashar; Beibei, He; Zafar, Maimoona; Alami, Mohammad Murtaza; Shu, Shaohua
- Abstract
Dry tubers of Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit are used in traditional Chinese medicine. Commonly known as "banxia" in China, the tubers contain valuable compounds, including alkaloids and polysaccharides that are widely used in pharmaceuticals. The quantity and quality of these important compounds are affected by whether P. ternata is grown as a sole crop or as an intercrop, and P. ternata cultivation has become challenging in recent years. By intercropping P. ternata, its maximum yield, as well as large numbers of chemical components, can be realized. Here, a large data set derived from next-generation sequencing was used to compare changes in the bacterial communities in rhizosphere soils of P. ternata and maize grown as sole crops and as intercrops. The overall microbial population in the rhizosphere of intercropped P. ternata was significantly larger than that of sole-cropped P. ternata, whereas the numbers of distinct microbial genera, ranging from 552 to 559 among treatments, were not significantly different between the two rhizospheres. The relative abundances of the genera differed. Specifically, the numbers of Acidobacteria and Anaerolineaceae species were significantly greater, and those of Bacillus were significantly lower, in the intercropped P. ternata rhizosphere than in the sole-cropped rhizosphere.
- Subjects
CHINA; MICROBIAL diversity; RHIZOSPHERE; CATCH crops; INTERCROPPING; CHINESE medicine; CORN; RHIZOSPHERE microbiology; TUBERS
- Publication
3 Biotech, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
2190-572X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13205-021-03011-3