Insight into Bacterial Community Diversity and Monthly Fluctuations of Medicago sativa Rhizosphere Soil in Response to Hydrogen Gas Using Illumina High-Throughput Sequencing.

The microbial diversity and the monthly fluctuations in Medicago sativa field soil in response to hydrogen gas were investigated. Illumina high-throughput sequencing was used to analyze the bacteria in raw and hydrogen-treated rhizosphere soil. Among the 18 soil samples, the abundance change of the predominant phyla Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria showed opposite trends. The diversity index analysis of the nine leguminous soil samples showed the highest diversity of the microbial community in July. In the other nine soil samples treated with hydrogen, the microbial diversity decreased and the diversity of soil microorganisms in September was higher than that in July, but not significantly so. The heat map analysis revealed that the microbial community composition of the soil samples was different before and after the hydrogen treatment. After the soil samples were treated with hydrogen, the dominant genera were Nocardioide, Pseudomonas, Janibacter, Microbacterium, Microvirga, Streptomyces, and Phenylobacterium in May; Bradyrhizobium, Haliangium, Sphingomonas, Blastocatella, Lysobacter, and Sphingopyxis in July; and Aeromicrobium, Pseudonocardia, Lentzea, and Skermanella in September. This study indicates that time and hydrogen gas have significant effects on the diversity of microbes in M. sativa rhizospheric soil.