GSE132679
Effects of Magnesium Nutrition on Soybean Growth and Transcriptomic Response to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Inoculation
In the study, two soybean genotypes were selected to conduct high and low P, high and low Mg, and AM fungal inoculation treatments, combined with RNA-seq sequencing technique in order to investigate the physiological and molecular mechanisms of the symbiosis between soybean and AM fungi affected by P and Mg treatments.  The results showed that both Mg application and AM fungal inoculation were beneficial to promote soybean growth under low P condition. And there was a synergistic effect between the Mg concentration and the P concentration in the root of HN112 under the inoculation condition. RNA-seq sequencing was carried out using the roots of P-efficient soybean HN89 under different Mg and inoculation treatments with low P condition, and the difference of gene expression profiles was analyzed between high and low Mg treatments, and different inoculation treatments. According to the analysis of GO function classification and KEGG enrichment, under high Mg condition, the metabolic pathway was mainly enriched in lipid metabolism and glucose metabolism pathway under the inoculation treatment compared with the non-inoculation treatment, which regulated carbon metabolism pathway. Under the low Mg condition, the metabolic pathway was mainly enriched in the photosynthesis- antenna protein pathway to regulate the photosynthesis pathway under the inoculation treatment compared with the non-inoculation treatment. At the same time, the inoculation treatment significantly increased soybean root starch concentration under low Mg condition, compared with the non-inoculation treatment, suggesting that the significant up-regulation of a large number of photosynthesis related genes might be related to the significant increase of starch concentration at this treatment. Overall design: we employed pot experiment and RNA-seq sequencing technology to investigate the effects of Mg nutrition on plant growth, P and Mg contents, and root transcriptomes in soybean plants inoculated with AM fungi, every treatment had three replicates.