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Resistance and resilience responses of a range of soil eukaryote and bacterial taxa to fungicide application

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Howell, Christopher Carl, Hilton, Sally, Semple, Kirk T. and Bending, G. D. (2014) Resistance and resilience responses of a range of soil eukaryote and bacterial taxa to fungicide application. Chemosphere, Volume 112 . pp. 194-202. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.03.031

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Abstract

The application of plant protection products has the potential to significantly affect soil microbial community structure and function. However, the extent to which soil microbial communities from different trophic levels exhibit resistance and resilience to such compounds remains poorly understood. The resistance and resilience responses of a range of microbial communities (bacteria, fungi, archaea, pseudomonads, and nematodes) to different concentrations of the strobilurin fungicide, azoxystrobin were studied. A significant concentration-dependent decrease, and subsequent recovery in soil dehydrogenase activity was recorded, but no significant impact on total microbial biomass was observed. Impacts on specific microbial communities were studied using small subunit (SSU) rRNA terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) profiling using soil DNA and RNA. The application of azoxystrobin significantly affected fungal and nematode community structure and diversity but had no impact on other communities. Community impacts were more pronounced in the RNA-derived T-RFLP profiles than in the DNA-derived profiles. qPCR confirmed that azoxystrobin application significantly reduced fungal, but not bacterial, SSU rRNA gene copy number. Azoxystrobin application reduced the prevalence of ascomycete fungi, but increased the relative abundance of zygomycetes. Azoxystrobin amendment also reduced the relative abundance of nematodes in the order Enoplia, but stimulated a large increase in the relative abundance of nematodes from the order Araeolaimida.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: S Agriculture > SB Plant culture
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Soil fungicides, Fungicide resistance
Journal or Publication Title: Chemosphere
Publisher: Pergamon
ISSN: 0045-6535
Official Date: October 2014
Dates:
DateEvent
October 2014Published
13 May 2014Available
2 March 2014Accepted
23 October 2013Submitted
Volume: Volume 112
Number of Pages: 9
Page Range: pp. 194-202
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.03.031
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain) (BBSRC)

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