| Literature DB >> 28900190 |
Hui Wei1,2,3, Wenbin Yan1, Guoming Quan3,4, Jiaen Zhang5,6,7, Kaiming Liang3,8.
Abstract
Two Bidens species (Bidens pilosa and B. bipinnata) that originate from America have been introduced widely in pan-tropics, with the former regarded as a noxious invasive weed whereas the latter naturalized as a plant resource. Whether the two species exhibit different effects on the belowground system remains rarely studied. This study was conducted to investigate soil microbial carbon (C) utilization, enzyme activities and available nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium contents under the two species in a subtropical garden soil of southern China under different levels of light intensity. Results showed that the microbial C utilization and enzyme activities were not significantly different under the two species, implying that the strong invasiveness of B. pilosa could not be due to the plant-soil microbe interactions, at least plant-induced alterations of microbial community function to utilize C substrates. Alternatively, available soil nitrogen and potassium contents were significantly higher under B. pilosa than under B. bipinnata in full sun, indicating that the strong invasiveness of B. pilosa could result from rapid nutrient mobilizations by B. pilosa. However, the differences turned non-significant as light intensity decreased, suggesting that light availability could substantially alter the plant effects on soil nutrient mobilizations.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28900190 PMCID: PMC5596010 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11707-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Rep ISSN: 2045-2322 Impact factor: 4.379
Figure 1Average well color development (AWCD) of soil microbial community under the invasive Bidens pilosa and the non-invasive B. bipinnata at different levels of light intensity. Different signals indicate the three RI treatments which are at natural condition and shaded at 40% and 10% of full light intensity, respectively. At each of the light intensity treatments, black signals are the observations under B. bipinnata while gray signals are those under B. pilosa.
Figure 2Scores of the first two principal components identified by principal component analysis on the carbon utilization pattern of soil microbial community. Different signals indicate the three RI treatments which are at natural condition and shaded at 40% and 10% of full light intensity, respectively. At each of the light intensity treatments, black signals are the observations under B. bipinnata while gray signals are those under B. pilosa.
Figure 3Average well color development (AWCD) of the soil microbial community to utilize different groups of carbon source in the Biolog Eco-plate at the three RI treatments. Bars stand for means and error bars are standard errors (n = 3).
Figure 4Soil enzyme activities under the two species at 100%, 40% and 10% RI treatments. Bars stand for means and error bars are standard errors (n = 3). Significance levels are indicated by the p values above bars at each of the RI treatments.
Summary of two-way analysis of variances on different groups of C substrates, soil enzyme activities and soil available nutrients.
| Species | Light intensity | Interaction | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| df | F | p | df | F | p | df | F | p | |
| Carbohydrates | 1 | 0.001 | 0.980 | 2 | 4.652 | 0.032 | 2 | 0.153 | 0.860 |
| Carboxylic acids | 1 | 0.149 | 0.706 | 2 | 2.597 | 0.116 | 2 | 0.282 | 0.759 |
| Amine acids | 1 | 0.188 | 0.672 | 2 | 3.776 | 0.053 | 2 | 0.399 | 0.680 |
| Amines | 1 | 0.118 | 0.737 | 2 | 2.943 | 0.091 | 2 | 0.190 | 0.829 |
| Polymers | 1 | 0.059 | 0.812 | 2 | 2.574 | 0.117 | 2 | 0.135 | 0.875 |
| Phenolic compounds | 1 | 0.291 | 0.599 | 2 | 3.022 | 0.086 | 2 | 1.301 | 0.308 |
| Cellulase | 1 | 0.516 | 0.486 | 2 | 2.928 | 0.092 | 2 | 0.085 | 0.919 |
| Invertase | 1 | 41.328 | <0.001 | 2 | 13.964 | 0.001 | 2 | 0.052 | 0.949 |
| Urease | 1 | 2.542 | 0.137 | 2 | 74.924 | <0.001 | 2 | 0.279 | 0.761 |
| Catalase | 1 | 0.104 | 0.752 | 2 | 4.898 | 0.028 | 2 | 5.084 | 0.025 |
| AHN | 1 | 13.332 | 0.003 | 2 | 22.233 | <0.001 | 2 | 1.123 | 0.357 |
| Available P | 1 | 5.166 | 0.042 | 2 | 2.621 | 0.114 | 2 | 0.839 | 0.456 |
| Available K | 1 | 1.794 | 0.205 | 2 | 245.91 | <0.001 | 2 | 2.550 | 0.119 |
In the table, statistical F and significance level p with degree of freedom df are presented. AHN stands for alkali-hydrolysable nitrogen and P and K stand for phosphorus and potassium, respectively.
Figure 5Soil available nitrogen (N; a), phosphorus (P; b) and potassium (K; c) contents under the two species at 100%, 40% and 10% RI treatments. Bars stand for means and error bars are standard errors (n = 3). Significance levels are indicated by the p values above bars at each of the RI treatments.