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Sugarcane monoculture drives microbial community composition, activity and abundance of agricultural-related microorganisms

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Sugarcane monoculture (SM) often leads to soil problems, like soil acidification, degradation, and soil-borne diseases, which ultimately pose a negative impact on agricultural productivity and sustainability. Understanding the change in microbial communities’ composition, activities, and functional microbial taxa associated with the plant and soil under SM is unclear. Using multidisciplinary approaches such as Illumina sequencing, measurements of soil properties, and enzyme activities, we analyzed soil samples from three sugarcane fields with different monoculture histories (1-, 2-, and 4-year cultivation times, respectively). We observed that SM induced soil acidity and had adverse effects on soil fertility, i.e., soil organic matter (OM), total nitrogen (TN), total carbon (TC), and available potassium (AK), as well as enzyme activities indicative for carbon, phosphorus, and nitrogen cycles. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis showed that SM time greatly affected soil attribute patterns. We observed strong correlation among soil enzymes activities and soil physiochemical properties (soil pH, OM, and TC). Alpha diversity analysis showed a varying response of the microbes to SM time. Bacterial diversity increased with increasing oligotrophs (e.g., Acidobacteria and Chloroflexi), while fungal diversity decreased with reducing copiotrophs (e.g., Ascomycota). β-Diversity analysis showed that SM time had a great influence on soil microbial structure and soil properties, which led to the changes in major components of microbial structure (soil pH, OM, TC, bacteria and soil pH; TC, fungi). Additionally, SM time significantly stimulated (four bacterial and ten fungal) and depleted (12 bacterial and three fungal) agriculturally and ecologically important microbial genera that were strongly and considerably correlated with soil characteristics (soil pH, OM, TC, and AK). In conclusion, SM induces soil acidity, reduces soil fertility, shifts microbial structure, and reduces its activity. Furthermore, most beneficial bacterial genera decreased significantly due to SM, while beneficial fungal genera showed a reverse trend. Therefore, mitigating soil acidity, improving soil fertility, and soil enzymatic activities, including improved microbial structure with beneficial service to plants and soil, can be an effective measure to develop a sustainable sugarcane cropping system.

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This research was funded by the Public Welfare Industrial Research Project of China (grant number 20150311904-01) and the Earmarked Fund for the Modern Agriculture Technology of China via grant number CARS-170401.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Muhammad Tayyab, Ziqi Yang, Caifang Zhang & Hua Zhang

  2. College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Muhammad Tayyab, Ziqi Yang, Caifang Zhang, Wenxiong Lin & Hua Zhang

  3. Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Muhammad Tayyab & Wenxiong Lin

  4. Key Laboratory of Crop Ecology and Molecular Physiology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 35002, China

    Muhammad Tayyab & Wenxiong Lin

  5. College of Geography, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China

    Waqar Islam

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MT wrote designed the experiment, collected the soil samples, analyzed the data, and wrote the MS. ZY, CZ, ZP, and NF helped in sampling and data analysis. WI helped in data normalization and MS in the preparation and finalization. LW and ZH supervised the research work.

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Tayyab, M., Yang, Z., Zhang, C.et al. Sugarcane monoculture drives microbial community composition, activity and abundance of agricultural-related microorganisms.Environ Sci Pollut Res28, 48080–48096 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14033-y

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