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. 2023 Sep 21;12(9):1471. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12091471

Table 2.

Antibiotics and ARGs found in soil-plant systems (1–4 columns) and effects in terms of soil and plant microbiome shifts (5–6 columns).

Antibiotics ARGs Microbial Composition References
Soil Plant Soil Plant Microbiome Soil Plant Microbiome
ABs: 2.5 mg/kg each
enrofloxacin (ENR) ciprofloxacin (CIP) sulfamethazine (SMZ)
sulfamethoxazole (SMX)
doxycycline (DOX) chlortetracycline hydrochloride (CTCC)
lincomycin (LIN)
Lettuce:
SMX: 0.044 mg/kg fresh weight
LIN: 0.051 mg/kg fresh weight
SMZ: 0.021 mg/kg fresh weight
- - - - [81]
Sulfamethoxazole (SMX)
100 mg/kg
200 mg/kg
300 mg/kg
Lettuce:
0.084 mg/kg
0.181 mg/kg
0.503 mg/kg
sul1
sul2
tetM
tetA/P
tet34
tetG1
tetG2
qnrS1
qnrS2
cmlA1
floR
- Control soil microbial community dominated by:
Gaiella, Streptomyces, Sphingomonas
Soil + SMX dominated by: Lysobacter, Bacillus
- [86]
- - beta-lactam, aminoglycoside, MLSB, tetracyclinesulphonamide, FCA, vancomycin, MGEs beta-lactam, aminoglycoside, MLSB, tetracycline, sulphonamid, FCA, vancomycin, MGEs Soil: Actinobacteria and Deltaproteobacteria increase, Cyanobacteria decrease in AB presence Root endophytes: Alphaproteobacteria increase and Gammaproteobacteria decrease;
Phyllosphere:
Actinobacteria decrease
[100]
Swine manure added to the soil and
doxycycline (DOX): 84.02 µg/kg
sulfamethoxazole (SMX): 86.41 µg/kg
tilmicosin (TIL): 69.37 µg/kg
Lettuce tetA; tetG;
tetM; tetX,
intI1
Phyllosphere:
sul2; tetA;
tetG; tetM; tetQ; ermC
intI1; intI2
Endosphere:
tetQ; tetL; tetA; tetO; tetX; intI1; intI2
Fluviicola,
Cohnella,
Alcanivorax
bacteria correlated with ARGs
Phyllosphere:
Pseudomonas,
Clostridium_IV
correlated with ARGs
Endosphere:
Chelativorans, Halomonas
[101]
ABs: 7.5 mg/kg each
Sulfamethoxazole (SMX)
Ciprofloxacin (CIP)
Enrofloxacin (ENR)
Lettuce:
CIP bioaccumulation, with significantly higher values in manure amended than digestate condition
sul2
aac-(6′)-Ib-cr qepA
Rhizosphere:
sul2
aac-(6′)-Ib-cr qepA
Phyllosphere:
sul1
sul2
aac-(6′)-Ib-cr qepA
sul1
tnpA
Significant increase in Bacilli and Bacteroida in antibiotic and manure amended conditions
Significant decrease in Actinobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria
Rhizosphere:
significant decrease in Actinobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria and Bacilli in
antibiotic and manure amended conditions
Phyllosphere:
significant increase in Bacilli and Gammaproteobacteria in antibiotic and manure amended conditions
[30]
Oxytetracycline (OTC)
Streptomycin (STR)
Calculated soil concentration of 59.45 mg/kg at 74 days
Cherry radish:
Significantly higher presence of STR in plant tissue in comparison with OTC
Phyllosphere:
STR 0.3 mg/kg
OTC 0.003 mg/kg
Fruits:
STR 0.2 mg/kg
OTC 0.005 mg/kg
Soil
STR 0 mg/kg
OTC 0.007 mg/kg
- - At 74 days
no more Firmicutes detected and general decrease in Actinobacteria.
Increase in Poteobacteria and Chloroflexi in OTC condition; decrease in Actinobcteria.
Increase in Gemmatimonadetes in STR condition
At 74 days
Phyllosphere:
decrease in Bacterioidetes. Increase in Cyanobacteria and decrease in Firmicutes
in antibiotic conditions.
Fruits:
increase in Actinobacteria in OTC condition.
Root Endophytes:
increase in Chloroflexi.
Increase in Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria in OTC and STR conditions, respectively
[102]