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Root microbiota confers rice resistance to aluminium toxicity and phosphorus deficiency in acidic soils

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Aluminium (Al) toxicity impedes crop growth in acidic soils and is considered the second largest abiotic stress after drought for crops worldwide. Despite remarkable progress in understanding Al resistance in plants, it is still unknown whether and how the soil microbiota confers Al resistance to crops. Here we found that a synthetic community composed of highly Al-resistant bacterial strains isolated from the rice rhizosphere increased rice yield by 26.36% in acidic fields. The synthetic community harvested rhizodeposited carbon for successful proliferation and mitigated soil acidification and Al toxicity through extracellular protonation. The functional coordination between plants and microbes offers a promising way to increase the usage of legacy phosphorus in topsoil. These findings highlight the potential of microbial tools for advancing sustainable agriculture in acidic soils.

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Fig. 1: SynCom promotes rice performance under Al-toxic acidic stress.
Fig. 2: Effects of SynCom inoculation on rice root architecture under different treatment conditions.
Fig. 3: Variation in soil chemical properties and bacterial communities after SynCom inoculation.
Fig. 4: The colonization of SynCom assists rice in obtaining surface soil phosphorous under Al-toxic acidic stress.
Fig. 5: Enhanced Al-resistant response in rice provides more carbon for the root microbiota.
Fig. 6: A schematic model summarizing the hypothesized mechanisms of how SynCom confers rice Al resistance and plant growth in acidic soil.

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The raw sequence data reported in this paper have been deposited (PRJCA011216) in the Genome Sequence Archive in the BIG Data Center62, Chinese Academy of Sciences under accession code CRA007891 for Rhodococcus erythropolis transcriptome sequencing, CRA007889 for Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptome sequencing, CRA008623 for bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing data in the 13C isotope labelling experiment, CRA007869 for phoD gene sequencing, CAR007871 for rice leaf transcriptome sequencing, and CAR008056 for rice root transcriptome sequencing in the pot experiment and are publicly accessible at http://bigd.big.ac.cn/gsa. All pure strains were deposited in the CNGB Sequence Archive (CNSA)63 of the China National GeneBank DataBase (CNGBdb)64 at https://db.cngb.org/ with accession number CNP0003393. Source data are provided with this paper.

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Acknowledgements

We thank J. E. Shaff and E. J. Craft (Robert W. Holley Center of Agriculture and health, USDA-ARS, Cornell University) for providing the helpful tool Geochem-EZ software. We thank C. Huang (Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and G. Huang (School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) for critical discussion and feedback on the paper. We thank J. Fan, M. Liu, X. Liu and L. Chen from the Yingtan Agroecosystem Field Experiment Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for field experiment management and sampling assistance. We received fundings from Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA24020104 to Y.L.), National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFD1900400 to Y.L.), National Natural Science Foundation of China (42377121 to Y.L.), Innovation Program of Institute of Soil Science (ISSASIP2201 to Y.L.) and Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016284 to Y.L.). The funders had roles in study design and data collection and analysis.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

    Chaoyang Liu, Meitong Jiang, Zhiyuan Ma, Li Zhang, Yu Wang, Jixian Ding, Wuxing Liu, Bo Sun, Renfang Shen, Jiabao Zhang & Yuting Liang

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  3. Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Mengting Maggie Yuan

  4. National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, SIBS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

    Ertao Wang

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    Yang Bai

  6. Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Thomas W. Crowther

  7. Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    Jizhong Zhou

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Conceptualization: Y.L., Y.B., T.W.C., R.S. and J. Zhang. Methodology: Y.L., C.L., M.J., M.M.Y., Z.M., Y.B., L.Z., Y.W., J.D., W.L. and J. Zhou. Investigation: Y.L., C.L., M.J. and M.M.Y. Data curation: C.L., M.J., M.M.Y., Z.M., L.Z. and J.D. Formal analysis: Y.L., C.L., M.J., M.M.Y., Z.M. and L.Z. Supervision: Y.L., E.W., R.S. and J. Zhang. Writing—original draft: Y.L., C.L., M.J. and M.M.Y. Writing—review and editing: C.L., M.J., M.M.Y., Y.L., E.W., Y.B., T.W.C., J. Zhou, Z.M., L.Z., Y.W., J.D., W.L., B.S., R.S. and J. Zhang.

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Supplementary Table 1. Strain information. Supplementary Table 2. Parameters of the logistic models of Rhodococcus erythropolis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa growing under different Al3+ conditions. Supplementary Table 3. Intensity of differential metabolites in rice roots with and without SynCom. Supplementary Table 4. Ionic interactions predicted by Geochem-EZ. Supplementary Table 5. Physicochemical properties of experimental soils collected from the field.

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Liu, C., Jiang, M., Yuan, M.M. et al. Root microbiota confers rice resistance to aluminium toxicity and phosphorus deficiency in acidic soils. Nat Food 4, 912–924 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00848-0

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