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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Plant Symbiotic Interactions
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1578936
This article is part of the Research TopicEngineering Plant-Microbiomes to Improve the Health of Economic CropsView all articles
Structure and composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community associated with mango
Provisionally accepted- Baise University, Baise City, China
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Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is an important fruit crop with significant ec onomic value in tropical and subtropical areas globally. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) symbiosis is vital for mango trees growth, and the detailed und erstanding of various (a)biotic factors that influence AMF community compositi on is crucial for sustainable crop production. To date, there is little information available on how do different seasons and plant age influence the AMF com munity composition associated with mango. Using high-throughput amplicon seq uencing, we examined AMF community diversity and composition in the rhizos phere of mango from two distinct orchards during spring (C_BY and C_YL) a nd autumn (Q_BY and Q_YL), which differed in age (10 and 28 years). The results revealed a notable variation in the number of observed species between two 28-years-old mango orchards (C_BY28 vs C_YL28 and Q_BY28 vs Q_Y L28) during both the spring and autumn seasons. However, the comparison of 10-years-old and 28-years-old mangoes showed no significant shift in the divers ity and richness of AMF. At the taxonomic level, Glomus was the absolute do minant genus in AMF community. The correlation analysis between species ab undance and soil nutrients showed that the level of phosphorus, potassium and their available forms (AP, AK) significantly affect AMF community. Furtherm ore, the P, AP, and AK contents were found positively correlated with the do minant AMF molecular virtual species Sclerocystis sinuosa. These findings indi cate the response characteristics of mango rhizosphere AMF community to soil nutrients, providing scientific basis for precise regulation of soil environment t o improve mango tree growth and production.
Keywords: AMF community, Mango, Microbial Diversity, Planting years, Seasonal dynamic, soil properties
Received: 18 Feb 2025; Accepted: 15 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Yang, Teng, Jin, Ouyang, Lv, Hou, Hussain and Zhu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Zhengjie Zhu, Baise University, Baise City, China
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