2025-03-01
Exposure to thiazole pesticides disrupts pathogens and undermines keystone status of rare taxa within bacterial ecological networks
2025-03-01 • Minghao Lv, Wenchong Shi, Jie Xu, Shidong He, Lujun Wang, Mingcong Li, Q. Lena, Jiguang Wang, Fengjie Nie, Bingjie Xu, Yifeng Han, Bo Zhou, Zheng Gao
Considering the sensitivity of rare microbial taxa to environmental disturbances and their critical roles in ecosystems, it is essential to investigate how soil microbial communities (particularly rare microbes) respond to pesticide exposure. In this study, we found that thiazole pesticides significantly reduced the severity of potato common scab and effectively disrupted the pathogen's cell membrane integrity. Notably, hierarchical partitioning analysis indicated that the rare microbial taxa in potato geocaulosph…