The Cypripedium japonicum is a species of orchid, distributed mainly in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In Korea, C. japonicum is an extremely rare species and class I endangered plant. However, little is known about the plant-microbe interaction and its ecology, especially rhizosphere bacterial communities in terms of structure and diversity in C. japonicum. In this study, the diversity of bacterial communities was investigated in C. japonicum rhizosphere and bulk soil. Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria and Actinobacteria were the most abundant groups in both rhizosphere and bulk soil. Significantly Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria abundantly inhabited in the rhizosphere when compared with the bulk soil. Conversely, significantly more unclassified bacteria were detected in the rhizosphere soil than in the bulk soil. This work increases our understanding of the rhizosphere bacterial diversity on class I endangered plant, C. japonicum.

토양으로부터 직접 추출한 DNA를 cross hybridization하는 방법을 통해서 서로 다른 토양 환경 간에 미생물 군집의 유전형적 유사성과 상대적 다양성을 비교하였다. 그 결과 소나무삼림토양이 다른 토양에 비해 상대적 다양성이 높은 것으로 밝혀졌으며, 경작지, 나지, 초지, 신갈삼림 순으로 다양성 정도를 나타내었다. 또한 유전형적 유사성의 정도에 따른 집괴 분석 결과 소나무삼림과 경작지 토양, 신갈나무삼림과 초지 토양 그리고 나지 등 세 부류로

Organic and chemical fertilizer amendments are an important agricultural practice for increasing crop yields. In order to maintain the soil sustainability, it is important to monitor the effects of fertilizer applications on the shift of soil microorganism, which control the cycling of many nutrients in the soils. Here, culture-dependent and cultureindependent approaches were used to analyze the soil microorganism and community structure under six fertilization treatments, including green manure, rice straw compost, rapeseed cake, pig mature compost, NPK +pig mature compost, NPK and control. Both organic and chemical fertilizers caused a shift of the cultural microorganism CFUs after treatments. Bacterial CFUs of the organic fertilization treatments were significantly higher than that of chemical fertilization treatments. The DGGE profiles of the bacterial communities of the samples showed that the green manure treatment was a distinct difference in bacterial community, with a greater complexity of the band pattern than other treatments. Cluster analyses based on the DGGE profile showed that rice straw compost and pig mature compost had a similar banding pattern and clustered together firstly. Rapeseed cake, NPK, NPK + pig manure compost and control clustered together in other sub-cluster and clearly distinguished from green manure.

Soil samples were collected from new-developed wetland soil ecosystem of Tamarix chinesis plantation in Chinese Yellow River Delta in different months of 2003. Soil characteristics, temporal change and spatial distribution of microbial community composition and their relationship with nitrogen turnover and circling were investigated in order to analyze and characterize the role of microbial diversity and functioning in the specific soil ecosystem. The result showed that the total population of microbial community in the studied soil was considerably low, compared with common natural ecosystem. The amount of microorganism followed as the order: bacteria> actinomycetes>fungi. Amount of actinomycetes were higher by far than that of fungi. Microbial population remarkably varied in different months. Microbial population of three species in top horizon was corrected to that in deep horizon. Obvious rhizosphere effect was observed and microbial population was significantly higher in rhizosphere than other soils due to vegetation growth, root exudation, and cumulative dead fine roots. Our results demonstrate that microbial diversity is low, while is dominated by specific community in the wetland ecosystem of Tamarix chinesi.