Plant Diversity Reduces the Risk of Antibiotic ResistanceGenes in Agroecosystems
Li, Shu (Nanjing Normal University)
Zhou, Xing (Nanjing Normal University)
Liu, Liangliang (Nanjing Normal University)
Su, Zhe (Nanjing Normal University)
Zhao, Jun (Nanjing Normal University)
Zhang, Jinbo (Nanjing Normal University)
Cai, Zucong (Nanjing Normal University)
Peñuelas, Josep (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Huang, Xinqi (Nanjing Normal University)

Date:	2025
Abstract:	Despite advances in dispersal mechanisms and risk assessment of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), how plants influence ARG contamination in agricultural soils remains underexplored. Here, the impacts of plant species and diversity on ARGs and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in three agricultural soils are comprehensively investigated in a pot experiment. The results indicate that increased plant diversity reduces ARGs and MGEs abundance by 19. 2%-51. 2%, whereas plant species exhibit inconsistent and soil-dependent effects. Potential bacterial hosts harboring abundant ARGs have greater relative abundance than nonhosts, and both their richness and cumulative relative abundance are reduced by plant diversity. Notably, hosts inhibited by plant diversity present a greater relative abundance than the other hosts. The enriched compounds in root exudates due to plant diversity play a more important role in the metabolic network and contribute to rebalancing of the abundance of potential hosts and nonhosts. An independent test using pure organics reveals that higher resource diversity, resulting from increased plant diversity, reduces the relative abundance and mobility of abundant and high-risk ARGs. This study highlights the resource-mediated mitigation of the risks posed by ARG contamination and indicates that ensuring plant and resource diversity is a promising strategy for controlling ARGs in agroecosystems.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Antibiotic resistance genes ; Plant diversity ; Root exudates ; Soil microbial community
Published in:	Advanced science, Vol. 12, Issue 11 (January 2025) , art. 2410990, ISSN 2198-3844

DOI: 10.1002/advs.202410990
PMID: 39874208

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