Abstract:This study aims to elucidate the effects of different potato genotypes on rhizosphere microbial communities from the perspective of rhizosphere bacterial community structure, and to explore the characteristics of rhizosphere bacterial communities in high-altitude landraces and to identify the bacterial category playing an important role in colonization. The high-throughput sequencing of rhizosphere bacterial 16S rRNA genes was used to cluster the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and the diversity characteristics of bacterial communities. We also used differential analysis of the abundance of OTU to identify the category of rhizosphere microorganism related to the genotypic effect. The sequencing results were quality controlled, and a total of 3 097 269 clean tags were obtained and clustered to 1 565 effective OTUs based on 97% sequence similarity. Overall, the bacterial category across different cultivars was almost the same, while the high-altitude landraces Purple potatoes and Horn potatoes showed a significant difference in the diversity of the rhizosphere microbial community. The abundance of OTU analysis between purple potatoes and the main variety Mira showed that the abundance of 55 OTUs in purple potatoes was significantly up-regulated and 143 was down-regulated. This study demonstrated that the diversity of potato rhizosphere bacterial community was affected by potato genotype factors, and the rhizosphere bacterial community structure of alpine landraces showed significant differences compared with local-breeding and main varieties.