Different toxic effects of ferulic and p-hydroxybenzoic acids on cucumber seedling growth were related to their different influences on rhizosphere microbial composition

Rhizosphere microbial communities of cucumber seedlings treated with ferulic (FA) and p -hydroxybenzoic acids (PHBA) were analyzed by quantitative PCR and Illumina sequencing. Then, growth responses of cucumber seedlings to changes in the composition of rhizosphere microbial communities were assesse...

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Published inBiology and fertility of soils Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 125 - 136
Main Authors Jin, Xue, Wu, Fengzhi, Zhou, Xingang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Acids
Agriculture
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biota
Composition
DNA
Fungi
Fusarium oxysporum
Growth
Life Sciences
Microbial activity
Microorganisms
Nucleotide sequence
Original Paper
Pathogens
PCR
Rhizosphere
Seedlings
Soil Science & Conservation
Toxicity
Wilting
Rhizosphere microbial communities
Soil-borne pathogen
Phenolic acid
Structure-function relationship
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Summary:Rhizosphere microbial communities of cucumber seedlings treated with ferulic (FA) and p -hydroxybenzoic acids (PHBA) were analyzed by quantitative PCR and Illumina sequencing. Then, growth responses of cucumber seedlings to changes in the composition of rhizosphere microbial communities were assessed. Compared with PHBA, FA had higher inhibitory effects on cucumber seedling growth and higher stimulating effects on the pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cucumerinum , which led to severer Fusarium wilting. Both FA and PHBA increased the abundances and changed the compositions of bacterial and fungal communities. However, bacterial and fungal community compositions differed between the treatments of FA and PHBA. Both FA- and PHBA-treated cucumber rhizosphere biota inhibited cucumber seedling growth with FA having stronger inhibitory effects. F. oxysporum f.sp. cucumerinum can utilize FA and PHBA in vitro. Overall, the higher phytotoxic effect of FA than PHBA on cucumber seedling growth was linked to their different influences on the composition of rhizosphere microbial communities, especially the stronger stimulating effect of FA than PHBA on F. oxysporum f.sp. cucumerinum .
ISSN:0178-2762
1432-0789
DOI:10.1007/s00374-019-01408-0