Effects of Soil Properties and Microbiome on Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) Growth

Blueberry has high nutritional value and is favored by consumers, so the planting area increasing. However, due to influence of climate conditions edaphic environment, achieving production healthy growth blueberries become a major problem. In this study, we collected soil blueberry plants which had normal limited determine underlying causes poor characterizing pH, EC, enzyme activities microbiome, plant properties, root metabolites. The results showed that pH rhizosphere was less than 6.0 in case growing well, higher poorly. acid phosphatase invertase were significantly normally growth-limited plants. relative abundance Proteobacteria Saccharibacteria they positively correlated with activity phosphatase. Ascomycota, as dominant fungi, highest six metabolites showing enrichment KEGG pathway analysis thymidine, cholic acid, raffinose, p-salicylic astaxanthin, inosine. It found flavonoids fungi abundance. contents apin, rutin epigallocatechin roots content flavonoid daidzin poorly compared ones. conclusion, related organic matter, microbial community diversity.