Climatic Zone and Soil Properties Determine the Biodiversity of the Soil Bacterial Communities Associated to Native Plants from Desert Areas of North-Central Algeria
Algeria is the largest country in Africa characterized by semi-arid and arid sites, located in the North, and hypersaline zones in the center and South of the country. Several autochthonous plants are well known as medicinal plants, having in common tolerance to aridity, drought and salinity. In the...
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| author | Elisa Bona Nadia Massa Omrane Toumatia Giorgia Novello Patrizia Cesaro Valeria Todeschini Lara Boatti Flavio Mignone Houda Titouah Abdelghani Zitouni Guido Lingua Francesco Vuolo Elisa Gamalero |
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| description | Algeria is the largest country in Africa characterized by semi-arid and arid sites, located in the North, and hypersaline zones in the center and South of the country. Several autochthonous plants are well known as medicinal plants, having in common tolerance to aridity, drought and salinity. In their natural environment, they live with a great amount of microbial species that altogether are indicated as plant microbiota, while the plants are now viewed as a “holobiont”. In this work, the microbiota of the soil associated to the roots of fourteen economically relevant autochthonous plants from Algeria have been characterized by an innovative metagenomic approach with a dual purpose: (i) to deepen the knowledge of the arid and semi-arid environment and (ii) to characterize the composition of bacterial communities associated with indigenous plants with a strong economic/commercial interest, in order to make possible the improvement of their cultivation. The results presented in this work highlighted specific signatures which are mainly determined by climatic zone and soil properties more than by the plant species. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7b9ee96b71624aa1833d5ec385a247332023-11-22T01:24:51ZengMDPI AGMicroorganisms2076-26072021-06-0197135910.3390/microorganisms9071359Climatic Zone and Soil Properties Determine the Biodiversity of the Soil Bacterial Communities Associated to Native Plants from Desert Areas of North-Central AlgeriaElisa Bona0Nadia Massa1Omrane Toumatia2Giorgia Novello3Patrizia Cesaro4Valeria Todeschini5Lara Boatti6Flavio Mignone7Houda Titouah8Abdelghani Zitouni9Guido Lingua10Francesco Vuolo11Elisa Gamalero12Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Piazza San Eusebio 5, 13100 Vercelli, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, ItalyAgro-Pastoralism Research Center (APRC), 17018 Djelfa, AlgeriaDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Piazza San Eusebio 5, 13100 Vercelli, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, ItalyLaboratoire de Biologie des Systèmes Microbiens (LBSM), Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Kouba, 16000 Algiers, AlgeriaLaboratoire de Biologie des Systèmes Microbiens (LBSM), Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Kouba, 16000 Algiers, AlgeriaDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, ItalySacco s.r.l., Via Alessandro Manzoni 29/A, 22071 Cadorago, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, ItalyAlgeria is the largest country in Africa characterized by semi-arid and arid sites, located in the North, and hypersaline zones in the center and South of the country. Several autochthonous plants are well known as medicinal plants, having in common tolerance to aridity, drought and salinity. In their natural environment, they live with a great amount of microbial species that altogether are indicated as plant microbiota, while the plants are now viewed as a “holobiont”. In this work, the microbiota of the soil associated to the roots of fourteen economically relevant autochthonous plants from Algeria have been characterized by an innovative metagenomic approach with a dual purpose: (i) to deepen the knowledge of the arid and semi-arid environment and (ii) to characterize the composition of bacterial communities associated with indigenous plants with a strong economic/commercial interest, in order to make possible the improvement of their cultivation. The results presented in this work highlighted specific signatures which are mainly determined by climatic zone and soil properties more than by the plant species.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/7/1359desert soilclimatic zonemicrobiotaholobiontarid zonesemi-arid zone |
| spellingShingle | Elisa Bona Nadia Massa Omrane Toumatia Giorgia Novello Patrizia Cesaro Valeria Todeschini Lara Boatti Flavio Mignone Houda Titouah Abdelghani Zitouni Guido Lingua Francesco Vuolo Elisa Gamalero Climatic Zone and Soil Properties Determine the Biodiversity of the Soil Bacterial Communities Associated to Native Plants from Desert Areas of North-Central Algeria Microorganisms desert soil climatic zone microbiota holobiont arid zone semi-arid zone |
| title | Climatic Zone and Soil Properties Determine the Biodiversity of the Soil Bacterial Communities Associated to Native Plants from Desert Areas of North-Central Algeria |
| title_full | Climatic Zone and Soil Properties Determine the Biodiversity of the Soil Bacterial Communities Associated to Native Plants from Desert Areas of North-Central Algeria |
| title_fullStr | Climatic Zone and Soil Properties Determine the Biodiversity of the Soil Bacterial Communities Associated to Native Plants from Desert Areas of North-Central Algeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climatic Zone and Soil Properties Determine the Biodiversity of the Soil Bacterial Communities Associated to Native Plants from Desert Areas of North-Central Algeria |
| title_short | Climatic Zone and Soil Properties Determine the Biodiversity of the Soil Bacterial Communities Associated to Native Plants from Desert Areas of North-Central Algeria |
| title_sort | climatic zone and soil properties determine the biodiversity of the soil bacterial communities associated to native plants from desert areas of north central algeria |
| topic | desert soil climatic zone microbiota holobiont arid zone semi-arid zone |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/7/1359 |
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