Abstract
Abstract
Aims
Despite little soil development and organic matter accumulation, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) consistently shows vigorous growth on bare gravel substrate of aggregate mining pits in parts of Canadian sub-boreal forests. This study aimed to investigate the bacterial microbiome of lodgepole pine trees growing at an unreclaimed gravel pit in central British Columbia and suggest their potential role in tree growth and survival following mining activity.
Methods
We characterized the diversity, taxonomic composition, and relative abundance of bacterial communities in rhizosphere and endosphere niches of pine trees regenerating at the gravel pit along with comparing them with a nearby undisturbed forested site using 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing. Additionally, the soil and plant nutrient contents at both sites were also analyzed.
Results
Although soil N-content at the gravel pit was drastically lower than the forest site, pine tissue N-levels at both sites were identical. Beta-diversity was affected by site and niche-type, signifying that the diversity of bacterial communities harboured by pine trees was different between both sites and among various plant-niches. Bacterial alpha-diversity was comparable at both sites but differed significantly between belowground and aboveground plant-niches. In terms of composition, pine trees predominantly associated with taxa that appear plant-beneficial including phylotypes of Rhizobiaceae, Acetobacteraceae, and Beijerinckiaceae at the gravel pit and Xanthobacteraceae, Acetobacteraceae, Beijerinckiaceae and Acidobacteriaceae at the forest site.
Conclusions
Our results suggest that, following mining activity, regenerating pine trees recruit bacterial communities that could be plant-beneficial and support pine growth in an otherwise severely N-limited disturbed environment.
Funder
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
University College Dublin
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Plant Science,Soil Science
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