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Impact of long-term continuous cropping on the Fusarium population in soybean rhizosphere.

WEI Wei1,2, XU Yan-li1, ZHU Lin3, ZHANG Si-jia1,2, LI S4   

  1. (1Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150081, China; 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3Department of Biotechnology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 1138657, Japan; 4Crop Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of AgricultureAgricultural Research Service, Stoneville 38776, MS, USA)
  • Online:2014-02-18 Published:2014-02-18

Abstract: The impact of long-term continuous cropping on the Fusarium population abundance and diversity, pathogenicity and phylogeny in soybean field were analyzed by using isolation, morphological identification, pathogenicity test, sequencing analysis and molecular marker with restricted fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP). The soybean field was located at the Hailun Experimental Station of Agricultural Ecology of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Northeast China and had been under a longterm rotation experiment designed to two treatments, i.e., longterm continuous cropping (LCC) of soybean for 20 years and shortterm continuous cropping (SCC) for 3 years. In SCC field, the population density  of Fusarium spp. was 6.0×104 CFU·g-1, in which F. oxysporum, F. graminearum and F. verticillioides possessing high pathogenicity and F. solani possessing moderate pathogenicity were the dominant species. In LCC field, the population density of Fusarium population and the dominance index of dominant species were significantly lower than that in SCC. The population density of F. oxysporum, F. graminearum and F. solani were only 36%, 32% and 22% of that in SCC, and F. verticillioide with highest pathogenicity was absent. The diversity and evenness index of Fusarium population were significantly higher than that in SCC. F. tricinctum, F. lateritium and F. avenaceum, just isolated from LCC, possessing a distant genetic relationship with Fusarium isolates possessing high pathogenicity based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and translation elongation factor 1alpha (EF-1α) gene, were nonpathogenicity for soybean. Thus, it seemed that LCC of soybean could cause the inhibition of soil Fusarium population size, alteration of Fusarium community composition and genetic diversity, and even the decline of pathogenicity for soybean root rot disease of Fusarium population.