The concerned research aimed to investigate the influence of medicinal plants of different families on the number and composition of micromycetes and the phytotoxic activity of the soil. It also sought to evaluate the use of antimicrobial activity of total extracts obtained from raw materials of some medicinal plants in folk medicines. The results revealed essential oils and aqueous extracts obtained from the medicinal plants native to Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, exhibited antimicrobial effects of varying degrees. Studies on the dynamics of the soil and root microbiota of medicinal and essential oil plants depending on the different seasons and locations in the Nakhchivan Region were insufficient. For the first time, composition and spatiotemporal patterns of microbial communities, as well as their seasonal (spring, summer, and fall) and microbiome domain specificity (bacteria and fungi), have gained studies. The β-diversity analysis revealed considerable differences in microbial communities.
Vegetation, medicinal plants, phytocenoses, soil micromycetes, antimicrobial effects, oil content, fungal species
The principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) based on distance to the rhizosphere bacterial communities of the studied Allium plant species showed the two principal components explaining 45.6% and 4.4% of the total variation for bacteria and 14.9% and 7.2% of the total variation for fungi, respectively.