Bacterial and archaeal diversity in soils cultivated with sugarcane in the State of São Paulo: a biogeographic approach

• Grant number: 11/07343-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Soil Science
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Dini Andreote
• Grantee: Ademir Durrer Bigaton
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The sugarcane is the actual most important crop in the State of São Paulo, where it is desirable a lower expansion of the agricultural frontiers. Nowadays, the agro-climatic map describe the existence of three regions with sugarcane plantations, with two more traditional lands, with distinct environmental conditions both adapted for the planting of sugarcane, besides a new area, recently occupied by this crop. Within a context of higher sugarcane productivity and sustainability, among other factors, the role of the microbial community may be of essential importance, helping the plant development, supplying it with nutrients, or inhibiting the occurrence of diseases and pests. However, little is known about the microbial community inhabiting the soils cultivated with sugarcane. In this way, this project has the aim to describe, in a biogeography approach, the microbial diversity present in soils cultivated with sugarcane in the State of São Paulo, encompassing the groups of Bacteria and Archaea. It is proposed to quantify these communities by Real Time PCR (qPCR), to analyze the structure of these microbial communities by Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP), and to determine the phylogenetic affiliation of these microorganisms by pyrosequencing of targeted genes. In order to achieve it, two distinct methodologies will be made, with the objectives of: i) to compare the variations in macro-scale, among distinct areas described by the agro-climatic maps; ii) to obtain information in micro-scale of the communities evaluated within each of the areas. At last, the microbiological data will be correlated with the physico-chemical characteristics of the soils, resulting in a biogeographic approach of the analyzed soils, and in the generation of a map of the microbes living in the soils where sugarcane is cultivated in the State of Sao Paulo.

Scientific publications

(5)

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ANDREOTE, FERNANDO DINI; GUMIERE, THIAGO; DURRER, ADEMIR. Exploring interactions of plant microbiomes. Scientia Agricola, v. 71, n. 6, p. 528-539, NOV-DEC 2014. (13/18529-8, 11/07343-5)

DA COSTA, DIOGO P.; DIAS, ARMANDO C. F.; COTTA, SIMONE R.; VILELA, DANIELLA; DE ANDRADE, PEDRO A. M.; PELLIZARI, VIVIAN H.; ANDREOTE, FERNANDO DINI. Changes of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of sugarcane under elevated concentration of atmospheric CO2. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, v. 10, n. 2, p. 137-145, FEB 2018. (11/04857-8, 13/50353-7, 12/14534-4, 11/07343-5)

GUMIERE, THIAGO; DURRER, ADEMIR; BOHANNAN, BRENDAN J. M.; ANDREOTE, FERNANDO DINI. Biogeographical patterns in fungal communities from soils cultivated with sugarcane. Journal of Biogeography, v. 43, n. 10, p. 2016-2026, OCT 2016. (11/04319-6, 11/07343-5)

DURRER, ADEMIR; GUMIERE, THIAGO; TAKETANI, RODRIGO GOUVEA; DA COSTA, DIOGO PAES; PEREIRA E SILVA, MICHELE DE CASSIA; ANDREOTE, FERNANDO DINI. The drivers underlying biogeographical patterns of bacterial communities in soils under sugarcane cultivation. APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY, v. 110, p. 12-20, FEB 2017. (11/04319-6, 11/07343-5)

ANDREOTE, FERNANDO DINI; GUMIERE, THIAGO; DURRER, ADEMIR. Exploring interactions of plant microbiomes. CIENTIA AGRICOL, v. 71, n. 6, p. 12-pg., 2014-11-01. (11/07343-5, 13/18529-8)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BIGATON, Ademir Durrer. The diversity of bacteria and archaea in soils cultivated with sugarcane: a biogeographic approach. 2015. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) Piracicaba.