Abstract
Managed agricultural ecosystems are unique systems where crops and microbes are intrinsically linked. This study focuses on discerning microbiome successional patterns across all plant organs and tests for evidence of niche differentiation along temporal and spatial axes. Soybean plants were grown in an environmental chamber till seed maturation. Samples from various developmental stages (emergence, growth, flowering and maturation) and compartments (leaf, stem, root and rhizosphere) were collected. Community structure and composition were assessed with 16S rRNA gene and ITS region amplicon sequencing. Overall, the interaction between spatial and temporal dynamics modulated alpha and beta diversity patterns. Time lag analysis on measured diversity indices highlighted a strong temporal dependence of communities. Spatial and temporal interactions influenced the relative abundance of the most abundant genera, whilst random forest predictions reinforced the observed localisation patterns of abundant genera. Overall, our results show that spatial and temporal interactions tend to maintain high levels of biodiversity within the bacterial/archaeal community, whilst in fungal communities OTUs within the same genus tend to have overlapping niches.
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