Well-developed root systems and a nitrogen-rich rhizosphere recruit key bacterial taxa to resist disease invasion of field crop

Summary

Crop rotation patterns have important effects on crop growth and disease occurrence, but there is a lack of understanding of how crop root systems and inter-root environments affect the bacterial communities involved in plant disease resistance under different crop rotation patterns. In this study, two crop rotation patterns, tobacco-rice (TR) and tobacco-maize (TM), were set up in a tobacco growing region of southern China, and the differences in soil bacterial communities and the mechanisms of their influence on the occurrence of tobacco diseases were investigated under the two rotation patterns. The results showed that the disease incidence rate of tobacco under TR crop rotation was low, only 4.92 %, while the incidence rate under TM crop rotation was as high as 34.44 %. The bacterial g