Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (6): 335-343.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2024-1126

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Effect of Soil-casing Cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus on Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soil

MI Chun-xia1(), Shu XU1, WANG Shou-xian2, LIU Yu2, SONG Qing-gang2, SONG Shuang2()   

  1. 1.Department of Life Science and Technology, Mudanjiang Normal University, Mudanjiang 157011
    2.Institute of Plant Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing Engineering Research Center for Edible Mushroom, Beijing 100097
  • Received:2024-11-21 Online:2025-06-26 Published:2025-06-30
  • Contact: SONG Shuang E-mail:swxmcx@126.com;songshuang@baafs.net.cn

Abstract:

Objective To investigate the feasibility of reducing the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil using edible fungi soil-casing cultivation mode. Method The abundance of ARGs and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) in soil under soil-casing cultivation mode of Pleurotus ostreatus was investigated by high-throughput fluorescence quantitative PCR. The differences in soil bacterial communities before and after the formation of fruiting bodies were analyzed by using 16S rRNA sequencing. Co-occurrence patterns among ARGs, MGEs and bacterial communities were analyzed by using network analysis. Result After P. ostreatus cultivation, the total relative abundance of ARGs decreased by 34.62% (P<0.01), and the total absolute abundance decreased by 48.56% (P<0.01), with significant reductions observed in aminoglycoside, sulfonamide, β-lactamase, macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B, and tetracycline ARGs. The total relative abundance of MGEs decreased by 20.63%, and the total absolute abundance decreased by 32.99% (P<0.01). Bacterial community structure changed significantly (P<0.01), explaining 31.50% of the variation in ARGs, while the combined effect of bacterial community structure and MGEs explained 8.01% of the variation. Conclusion The proliferation and development of P. ostreatus mycelium in the soil changed the structure of microbial community and achieved the effect of reducing the abundance of ARGs in the soil. The method of using edible fungi soil-casing cultivation is easy to operate and requires no high temperature or fermentation treatment, which not only reduces the abundance of ARGs in the soil, but also enables the harvesting of edible mushroom, providing a new perspective for bioremediation of agricultural soils contaminated with ARGs.

Key words: resistance contamination, agricultural soil, edible fungi, microbial community structure, bioremediation