Bacterial social networks across the French National territory

EA SPE BIOME GENOSOL UB Agrosup EA SPE BIOME GENOSOL UB AgrosupEASPEBIOMEGENOSOL UB Agrosup; New generation sequencing evidenced that soil houses a huge microbial biodiversity. Based on these observations, it is now possible to better describe the spatial distribution of soil microbial communities, to study the ecological processes involved (environmental selection, dispersal limitations), and to compute the data to define the ecological attributes of soil microbial taxa. These huge datasets also offer the opportunity to study how soil microbial populations are interrelated. With this study, we revealed the first soil bacterial "social" network across French national territory based on 2,20…

La biodiversité des sols est-elle impactée par l’apport de cuivre ou son accumulation dans les sols vignes ? Synthèse des connaissances scientifiques

Pendant 150 ans, le sulfate de cuivre a été utilisé de façon intensive comme fongicide pour lutter contre les maladies de la vigne. De ce fait, le cuivre s’est fortement accumulé dans les solsviticoles, atteignant des concentrations potentiellement nocives pour les organismes des sols.Bien que les doses de cuivre appliquées aujourd’hui soient 10 fois plus faibles qu’il y a 50 ans,son utilisation dans le contexte de la transition agroécologique est encore soumise à débat caril est un des rares pesticides autorisés en agriculture biologique. Dans ce travail, nous avonsconduit une méta-analyse de la littérature académique internationale pour objectiver l’impactdu cuivre sur la qualité biologiq…

Atlas français des bactéries du sol, une aventure scientifique et humaine. Webinaire Afes sur l’Atlas français des bactéries des sols 18 avril 2019

Depuis le début des années 2000, l’équipe Biocom de l’INRA de Dijon étudie les communautés microbiennes des sols français via le RMQS. Quinze ans plus tard, cet Atlas unique au monde dresse un bilan de l’état microbiologique des sols de France. Ce webinaire a pour but de présenter les résultats majeurs sur les bactéries de nos sols et les moyens mis en oeuvre pour produire un tel ouvrage.

Le Priming Effect dans le sol : mécanismes, acteurs et conséquences sur les services écosystémiques dans un contexte de changement global

The priming effect (PE) is a key mechanism contributing to the carbon balance of the soil ecosystem. Almost 100 years of research since its discovery in 1926 have led to a rich body of scientific publications to identify the drivers and mechanisms involved. A few review articles have summarised the acquired knowledge; the last major one was published in 2010. Since then, knowledge on the soil microbial communities involved in PE and in PE + C sequestration mechanisms has been considerably renewed.This article reviews current knowledge on soil PE to state to what extent new insights may improve our ability to understand and predict the evolution of soil C stocks. We propose a framework to un…

Biogeographical design of soil microbial habitats

International audience; Since the beginning of 21th century, soil microbial diversity is intensively studied gathering ahuge knowledge at local and global scales. Nevertheless, the microbial habitats have beenpoorly investigated, limiting our ability to link biodiversity description and regulation. In our study,we used a pyrosequencing approach targeting 16S rRNA genes directly amplified from soil DNAto have a comprehensive view of soil bacterial and archaeal community composition across thelargest spatially explicit soil sampling available in France (2173 soils, area covered = 5.5x105km2). Based on the multivariate regression tree (MRT) method, we designed 16 distinctterrestrial microbial …

Bacterial "social" network in french soils : a Metagenomics insight

EA SPE BIOME GENOSOL UB Agrosup EA SPE BIOME GENOSOL UB AgrosupEASPEBIOMEGENOSOL UB Agrosup; New generation sequencing evidenced that soil houses a huge microbial biodiversity. Based on these observations, it is now possible to better describe the spatial distribution of soil microbial communities, to study the ecological processes lying behind (environmental selection, dispersal limitations), and to mine the data to define the ecological attributes of soil microbial taxa. These huge datasets also offer the opportunity to study how soil microbial populations are interrelated. The objective of this study was to design the first bacterial "social" network in french soils to characterize how b…

Diversity and complexity of microbial communities from a chlor-alkali tailings dump

Abstract Revegetation of the tailings dumps produced by various industrial activities is necessary to prevent dust storms and erosion and represents a great challenge for ecological restoration. Little is known about the microbial colonisation and community structure of revegetated tailings following site exploitation. Here, we report the sequencing of 16S rRNA and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) fungal RNA gene amplicons from chlor-alkali residue and from an adjacent undisturbed soil to define the composition and assembly of the rhizosphere microbial communities. After quality filtering, a total of 72,373 and 89,929 bacterial sequences and 122,618 and 111,209 fungal sequences remained fo…

Explorer les fonctions microbiennes à partir d'informations taxonomiques : un état de l'art des outils et des méthodes

National audience; À l'ère des Big Data, d’énormes quantités de données sont disponibles et constituent uneoccasion unique de développer des algorithmes de prédiction performants. En écologiemicrobienne, ce phénomène a joué un rôle majeur dans la façon dont nous abordons labiodiversité depuis l’apparition des NGS. L’étude des microbiomes environnementaux par lesoutils les méta-omiques a conduit à la découverte de nouveaux organismes, fournissant ainsiune source importante d’informations taxonomiques et fonctionnelles. L’un des futurs défis, estde réussir à associer une fonction à une diversité microbienne pour améliorer notrecompréhension des fonctions du microbiome (British Ecological Soci…

Un atlas français des bactéries du sol : pour quoi faire ?

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Innovative tools to diagnose the impact of land use practices on soil microbial communities

International audience; Preservation and sustainable use of soil biological communities represent major challenges in the current agroecological context. Indeed, most of soil ecosystem services results from biological functions particularly driven by taxonomic and functional assemblages of microbiological communities (i.e. nutrient cycling, soil aggregation, depollution, etc.). Consequently, soil microbial communities are logical candidates as effective indicators of soil quality and sustainability. But, good biological indicators must be associated with references that encompass an operating range of measured values that allow performing the desired diagnosis. Even if numerous studies have…

L’Atlas Français des bactéries du sol. Interview dans l'émission Quoi de neuf, chercheurs ? sur Radio Campus Dijon. 6 mars 2019

Tillage intensity and pasture in rotation effectively shape soil microbial communities at a landscape scale

International audience; Soil microorganisms are essential to agroecosystem functioning and services. Yet, we still lack information on which farming practices can effectively shape the soil microbial communities. The aim of this study was to identify the farming practices, which are most effective at positively or negatively modifying bacterial and fungal diversity while considering the soil environmental variation at a landscape scale. A long-term research study catchment (12 km2 ) representative of intensive mixed farming (livestock and crop) in Western Europe was investigated using a regular grid for soil sampling (n = 186). Farming systems on this landscape scale were described in terms…

La France, pionnière de l’étude des bactéries du sol

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Ecological networks as a promising approach to decipher the role of microbial communities in soil ecosystems

Soil ecosystem is one of major reservoirs of microbial diversity on our planet. Many biological processes and interactions take place in soil, contributing to a considerable number of ecosystem services. Recent methodological advances, e.g. high throughput sequencing, provide an extensive knowledge on soil microbial communities in terms of diversity and composition. Thanks to these technological advances, numerous studies have investigated the variation of diversity indices and taxonomic composition of microbial communities according to changes in environmental conditions. However, estimates of microbial diversity through diversity metrics calculation such as Shannon, richness, evenness ind…

Premiers résultats du projet synthèse bibliographique sur les sols viticoles

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Exposition visible virtuellement « Résomes »à l'Atheneum de Dijon. Participation de l'UMR Agroécologie: inventaire des communautés bactériennes des sols de France et réseau mycélien. Exposition de travaux et video youtube

High microbial diversity promotes soil ecosystem functioning

ABSTRACT In soil, the link between microbial diversity and carbon transformations is challenged by the concept of functional redundancy. Here, we hypothesized that functional redundancy may decrease with increasing carbon source recalcitrance and that coupling of diversity with C cycling may change accordingly. We manipulated microbial diversity to examine how diversity decrease affects the decomposition of easily degradable (i.e., allochthonous plant residues) versus recalcitrant (i.e., autochthonous organic matter) C sources. We found that a decrease in microbial diversity (i) affected the decomposition of both autochthonous and allochthonous carbon sources, thereby reducing global CO 2 e…

Re-Clustering tool using an Open-Reference method that improves OTU definition

International audience; 1.Environmental microbial communities are now widely studied using metabarcoding approaches, thanks to the democratization of high‐throughput DNA sequencing technologies. The massive number of reads produced with these technologies requires bioinformatic solutions to be treated. A key step in the analysis is to cluster reads into Operational Taxonomic Units (or OTUs) and thus reduce the amount of data for downstream analyses. Due to the important impact of the clustering method on the quantity and quality of OTUs, finding an equilibrium between the reliability and time‐consuming nature of the chosen strategy is a real challenge. The present article proposes a new pos…

Les communautés microbiennes présentes dans différents types de sols ont une réponse variable à l’apport de produits résiduaires organiques

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Le RMQS au service de l'écologie microbienne des sols français

International audience; L'écologie microbienne des sols a longtemps été reconnue comme souffrant d'un certain manque de généricité car les études ont souvent été menées à l'échelle de parcelles voire de petits territoires et avec peu de sites investigués. Il en résulte un manque de connaissances sur les processus de distribution des populations et de la régulation de la diversité microbienne à grande échelle face à des modifications environnementales dues aux usages des terres ou au changement climatique. Dans les années 2000, le RMQS, avec 2 240 sites échantillonnés sur toute la France, a représenté une opportunité unique pour étudier les micro-organismes du sol sur de grandes échelles spa…

Atlas Français des bactéries du sol

Battle Karimi est post-doctorante dans l’UMR Agroécologie à l’INRA de Dijon et s’intéresse à l’écologie des communautés microbiennes. Elle a intégré l’équipe de recherche Biocom en 2016 afin d’analyser l’ensemble des données environnementales et microbiologiques issues du RMQS (Réseau de Mesures de la Qualité des Sols) et de les valoriser sous la forme du présent ouvrage. Elle a participé à la rédaction et à la mise en forme de la majeure partie de l’atlas, et a coordonné son avancement au sein de l’équipe d’auteurs.Nicolas Chemidlin-Prévost Bouré est maître de conférences en biologie des sols à AgroSup Dijon et membre de l’UMR Agroécologie. Spécialisé en écologie des communautés microbienn…

Biofilm biodiversity in French and Swiss show caves using the metabarcoding approach: First data.

International audience; In recent decades, show caves have begun to suffer from microorganism proliferation due to artificial lighting installations for touristic activity. In addition to the aesthetic problem, light encourages microorganisms that are responsible for physical and chemical degradation of limestone walls, speleothems and prehistoric paintings of cultural value. Microorganisms have previously been described by microscopy or culture-dependent methods, but data provided by new generation sequencing are rare. The authors identified, for the first time, microorganisms proliferating in one Swiss and in four French show caves using three different primers. The results showed that bo…

Mapping, understanding and predicting soil microbial diversity across France

International audience; Microorganisms are extremely abundant and diverse in soils. Their huge diversity is central in soil functioning regarding the diversity of functions it supports (mineralization, detoxification, stability of soil…) and is more and more studied, especially in a context of increasing pressure on soil resources. Conversely to macroorganisms whose distribution on a wide scale has been studied for over a century, spatial scaling and determinism distribution of soil microorganisms on nationwide scale still needs to be documented, notably to decipher the environmental filters shaping these communities. communities were investigated at the scale of France to characterize thei…

Soil bacterial interaction networks on a wide scale

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Soil microbial networks: what is the relationship with plants?

International audience; Since a long time, the interactions between soil microbes and plant roots are intensively investigated to decipher the role of microorganisms in the growth and the maintenance of plants in a multitude of environmental conditions as climatic stress, agricultural practices or pathogenic/parasitic invasions. Beyond their intimate relationships, the soil microbial communities influence and are influenced by the aboveground vegetation. The interaction/co-occurrence networks are a relatively new look on the soil microbial communities. This look integrates the most comprehensively the community complexity, provides a more complete information on the community and seems to b…

La vie secrète des sols français

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SOIL MICROBIOLOGICAL QUALITY: STATE OF THE ART AND IMPORTANCE OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES FOR FRENCH AGRICULTURAL SOILS

Soils are one of the major reservoirs of biological diversity on our planet, hosting a huge diversity of microorganisms. Numerous studies have demonstrated the role of microbial diversity in soil functions, such as nutrient cycling or pathogen management. Given the key role of soil microorganisms in the regulation of soil ecosystem functions, the environmental factors driving soil microbial diversity need to be understood. In France, we have the opportunity to benefit from a national soil survey (called the French Soil Quality Monitoring Network), which represents one of the most extensive and without a priori soil sampling survey available to date. Through several funded projects, we were …

Review of the impact of biogas digestates on the microbiological quality of agricultural soils

The global production of biogas has increased threefold during the last decade to partly replace fossil fuels, yet biogas production by anaerobic digestion generates substantial amounts of by-products named digestates. These biogas digestates can be recycled in soils to fertilize crops and to sequester carbon. However, the impact of digestates on the soil biological is actually poorly known. Here we reviewed the impact of digestates published in 56 articles reporting 23 microbial parameters. Half of the articles show neutral effects of biogas digestates and 7% showed negative effects. 25% of the articles show more stimulation of biogas digestates for the soil microbial quality, compared to …

Évaluation des transferts microbiens du sol au lait en filière AOP Comté

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Assessment of fungi proliferation and diversity in cultural heritage: Reactions to UV-C treatment.

International audience; Fungi are present in natural and non-touristic caves due to the presence of organic matter provided mainly by insects or animals such as bats. In show caves, however, tourist infrastructure and the visitors themselves are an important source of organic matter. In addition, photosynthetic biofilms provide a high amount of carbon and nitrogen sources for fungi. This study was conducted to identify the fungal communities present in caves along with the potential use of UV-C treatment against their proliferation. Thus, fungal communities proliferating in biofilms in six French and Swiss show caves were analyzed using high throughput sequencing. The results show 385 speci…

Contrasting Spatial Patterns and Ecological Attributes of Soil Bacterial Taxa across French National Territory

EA SPE BIOME GENOSOL UB UB Agrosup EA SPE BIOME GENOSOL UB UB AgrosupEASPEBIOMEGENOSOLUB UB Agrosup; Even though recent studies have clarified the influence of environmental filters on bacterial community diversity, those constraining bacterial populations variations remain unclear. In consequence, our ability to understand the ecological attributes of soil bacteria and to predict microbial community response to environmental stress is therefore limited. Here, we characterized the bacterial community composition and the various bacterial taxonomic groups constituting the community across the French country, by using a 16x16 km systematic grid representing 1825 sites to precisely decipher th…

La caractérisation des communautés microbiennes du sol à l'échelle de la France pour évaluer l'effet de l'usage des sols

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Biogeographical patterns of soil bacterial diversity at the scale of France

EA SPE BIOME GENOSOLEASPEBIOMEGENOSOL; Biogeographical patterns of soil bacterial diversity at the scale of France. 16. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology - ISME16

How build up soil bacterial co-occurrence networks from wide spatial scalesampling?

National audience; Although land use drives soil bacterial diversity and community structure, littleinformation about the bacterial interaction networks is available. Here, we investigatedbacterial co-occurrence networks in soils under different types of land use (forests, grasslands,crops and vineyards) by sampling 1798 sites in the French Soil Quality Monitoring Networkcovering all of France. An increase in bacterial richness was observed from forests tovineyards, whereas network complexity respectively decreased from 16,430 links to 2,046.However, the ratio of positive to negative links within the bacterial networks ranged from 2.9 inforests to 5.5 in vineyards. Networks structure was ce…