Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (6): 75-89.doi: 10.11978/2021114CSTR: 32234.14.2021114

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Analysis of rhizosphere bacterial community characteristics of mangrove plant Sonneratia × gulngai and its parents

YE Jincheng1,2(), CHEN Yiqing3, GAO Lin1, ZHOU Xianjiao1, ZHONG Cairong3, ZHANG Ying1, WANG Yun1()   

  1. 1. Mangrove Institute, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang 524048, China
    2. Department of Ecology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
    3. Hainan Academy of Forestry (Hainan Mangrove Research Institute), Haikou 571129, China
  • Received:2021-08-30 Revised:2021-10-11 Online:2022-11-10 Published:2021-10-13
  • Contact: WANG Yun E-mail:ckamyer@163.com;wang_xju@163.com
  • Supported by:
    The Project of Basic Scientific Research Work of Hainan Forestry Research Institute (Hainan mangrove research institute)(KYYS-2021-04);The Open Project of Mangrove Research Institute, Lingnan Normal University(YBXM09);The Project of Technical Innovation Special Project of Hainan Scientific Research Institutes under Grant(JCYK-2021-10)

Abstract:

Plant rhizosphere microbes can be transferred directly from mother to offspring, these vertically-transmitted organisms can affect host phenotype. Field investigation revealed that Sonneratia × gulngai, a natural hybrid of mangrove plants of the genus Sonneratia, usually grew stronger than its parents, and showed stronger survival advantage. In order to explore the reasons for this phenomenon, the offspring's microbiome composition (S. × gulngai) was compared with its parents S. caseolaris and S. alba by the bacterial 16S rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing technology. The sediment samples were collected from the Dongzhaigang Mangrove National Nature Reserve of Hainan Island. The result showed the rhizosphere bacterial communities of the three mangroves were highly diverse and rich, and distributed into 30 phyla, 242 families and 351 genera. Proteobacteria contributed to 40% of all reads and constituted the predominant members, most of the inherited rhizosphere microbiome belonged to this phylum. Significant differences were also observed at the phylum level. In offspring S. ×gulngai, the abundance of Actinobacteria and Acidobacteria was 4.3% and 6.5% respectively, which are significantly higher than parent's 1%~2%; Thermi species were enriched to be dominant populations with relative abundances of 19.8% in the parent S. alba, but the numbers was only 1% in the offspring S. × gulngai, and found Thermotogae phylum (5%) was absent in the rhizosphere bacterial community of S.× gulngai. In short, microbiome composition differed more strongly between offspring S. × gulngai and the parent S. alba than S. caseolaris. The analysis of soil physical and chemical properties found that the soil total nitrogen (TN) content of S. × gulngai was significantly lower than that of the parent, with a difference of more than 3 times. Correlation analysis showed that the concentration of TN was significantly negatively correlated with the abundance of Planctomycetes, Actinobacteria, and Acidobacteria. Through functional prediction, some functional genes related to the basic metabolism in the offspring S. × gulngai microbial community were greatly enriched, S.× gulngai's metabolic capacity was enhanced. These findings showed that the selectively inherited some the rhizosphere soil microorganisms from their parents, which made the offspring's microbiome composition more reasonable and maintained higher diversity, some rhizosphere growth-promoting bacteria particularly enriched and increased the basal metabolic capacity, these changes promoted S. × gulngai to grow better than its parent.

Key words: mangrove, Sonneratia, rhizosphere microbial, bacterial community, diversity

CLC Number: 

  • S714.3