title: Potential accumulative effect of the herbicide glyphosate on glyphosate-tolerant maize rhizobacterial communities over a three-year cultivation period.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Glyphosate is a herbicide that is liable to be used in the extensive cultivation of glyphosate-tolerant cultivars. The potential accumulation of the relative effect of glyphosate on the rhizobacterial communities of glyphosate-tolerant maize has been monitored over a period of three years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The composition of rhizobacterial communities is known to vary with soil texture, hence, the analyses have been performed in two agricultural fields with a different soil texture. The accumulative effects of glyphosate have been monitored by means of high throughput DNA pyrosequencing of the bacterial DNA coding for the 16S rRNA hypervariable V6 region from rhizobacterial communities. The relative composition of the rhizobacterial communities does vary in each field over the three-year period. The overall distribution of the bacterial phyla seems to change from one year to the next similarly in the untreated and glyphosate-treated soils in both fields. The two methods used to estimate bacterial diversity offered consistent results and are equally suitable for diversity assessment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The glyphosate treatment during the three-year period of seasonal cultivation in two different fields did not seem to significantly change the maize rhizobacterial communities when compared to those of the untreated soil. This may be particularly relevant with respect to a potential authorisation to cultivate glyphosate-tolerant maize in the European Union.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biotecnología Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barriuso
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marín
authors.forename: Rafael P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Mellado
mesh_terms: D005998:Glycine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D006540:Herbicides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012230:Rhizobiaceae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D003313:Zea mays / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000382:microbiology*; D000097797:Glyphosate
chemical_list: D005998:Glycine; D006540:Herbicides; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D000097797:Glyphosate
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