Abstract
The bacteria-based biofertilizers were widely applied in the tobacco planting. In the present study, the changes of rhizosphere/endophytic bacteria and the chemical components of tobacco k326 was investigated after Bacillus velezensis - based biofertilizer (BOF) application treated on three levels, i.e., 30 kg/mu (B30), 60 kg/mu (B60), 90 kg/mu (B90). The BOF treatments affected the bacterial community structure of rhizosphere, root and leaves of tobacco (p < 0.05). Noticeably, BOF treatments significantly increased soil available nutrients (AN, AP, AK), and also improved the content of the tested chemicals of k326 to standard levels. The BOF-induced increasing bacterial genera might explain the changes of soil nutrients and chemical constitutions of tobacco leaves, which were Marmoricola, Sphingomonas, Bacillus, and Pseudomonas, etc., both with relative higher abundance in B60&B90. By correlation analysis, we found the significant links between soil and foliar chemical components and the identified modules from rhizosphere or endophytes, which included most of the BOF-induced highly-abundant genera herein. All these findings concluded that BOF application increased the beneficial microbes, which could improve soil fertility, thereby promoting tobacco growth and nutrient accumulation in balance. Summary, we suggested that BOF application could be a promising way to achieve the sustainable development of the tobacco industry.