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  • The study investigated how adding sorghum stubble rhizosphere soil affected cucumber growth and its microbial community in pot experiments with four varying treatments.
  • The results indicated that the optimized treatment with sorghum soil notably enhanced cucumber growth and increased the diversity and abundance of beneficial soil bacteria, with specific shifts in bacterial community composition.
  • Key soil factors, such as nitrate and organic matter, significantly influenced the changes in microbial communities, suggesting that adding rhizosphere soil is a promising strategy to support sustainable cucumber cultivation in continuous cropping.

Article Abstract

We explored the effects of addition of sorghum stubble rhizosphere soil on the growth of continuous cropping cucumber and rhizosphere microbial community in a pot experiment. The diffe-rences in soil bacterial and fungal community composition were analyzed with fluorescence quantitative PCR and high-throughput sequencing technology. There were four treatments: CK (no fertilization), T(fertilizer only), T(optimized fertilization), and T(optimized fertilization + rhizosphere soil of sorghum stubble). The results showed that compared with other treatments, T promoted the growth and development of cucumber, and increased the abundance of 16S rRNA and ITS rRNA genes in soil. Compared with the T treatment, T and T significantly increased the richness and diversity of bacterial communities. There was no significant difference in fungal community richness and diversity among different treatments. Adding rhizosphere soil of sorghum stubble changed the composition of bacterial and fungal communities at both phylum and genus levels. For bacteria, it increased the abundances of Acidobacteria and Bacteroides, but decreased that of Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Nitrospira and Bacillus. For fungi, it increased the abundance of Basidiomycota, and , but decreased that of and . Results of redundancy analysis showed that soil nitrate and organic matter were the key factors affecting the difference of bacterial and fungal community composition, respectively. In conclusion, addition of sorghum stubble rhizosphere soil improved the total abundance of soil microorganisms and bacterial diversity for continuous cropping cucumber. It increased the abundance of beneficial bacteria , reduced that of pathogenic , and maintained the survival rate of cucumber, thus provided a feasible solution for alleviating the barriers for the continuous cropping of cucumber.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.13287/j.1001-9332.202109.032DOI Listing

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