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Short-term waterlogging increases arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species richness and shifts community composition

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Abstract

Aims

Our aim was to investigate the effects of short-term waterlogging in shaping communities of the obligately aerobic AMF in roots of Populus deltoides.

Methods

AMF community in populus roots was deciphered with 454-pyrosequencing method from a field plot before and after 15 days waterlogging.

Results

We found that short-term waterlogging significantly altered the AMF community as confirmed with NMDS. Indicator species analysis identified 12 AMF OTUs that shown with different relative abundance between before and after waterlogging. In contrast to expectation, short-term waterlogging increased detectable AMF species richness: 4 OTUs were detected only before and 17 only after waterlogging.

Conclusions

Variation in abundance of dominant OTUs was possibly due to short-term waterlogging disturbance and the role of competitive release in the increase in species richness following waterlogging.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Maarja Öpik (University of Tartu) and Stefano Ghignone (National Research Council, Italy) for providing QIIME formatted MaarjAM database. This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31300105, No.41071334and No. 31400373), the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund (No.RIF2012-08, CAFYBB2014QB003), and PAPD Fund of Nanjing Agricultural University (No. 80900314).

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  1. Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, No.1, Dongxiaofu, Xiangshan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100091, China

    Haishui Yang & Qian Zhang

  2. Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Production Management, Ministry of Agriculture/College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China

    Haishui Yang

  3. Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA

    Roger T. Koide

  4. Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, 100091, China

    Qian Zhang

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Yang, H., Koide, R.T. & Zhang, Q. Short-term waterlogging increases arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species richness and shifts community composition. Plant Soil 404, 373–384 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2850-0

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