Abstract:To explore the rhizospheric AMF community structure and diversity of three licorice varieties, as well as their relationship with the host plant, soil depth, physical and chemical properties, we collected the soil from a depth of 0-20 cm, 20-40 cm, 40-60 cm from licorice plants root rhizosphere of Xinjiang region, and employed the Illumina Miseq highthroughput sequencing platform to investigate the structure and diversity of these AM fungal communities, combined with the soil physical and chemical properties. (1) In this study, a total of 1 phyla, 1 class, 5 orders, 5 families, 5 genera, 34 species of AM fungi were isolated, Glomeromycota emerged as the dominant phyla, Glomus and Paraglomus emerged as the dominant genera as per the bioinformatics analysis. (2) Paraglomus is positively correlated, and Glomus is also positively correlated, while Paraglomus is general negatively correlated with Glomus. (3) The PCOA analysis showed that the AM fugal communities of the three licorice were completely separated, the same licorice partially overlapped in different soil depths. The genus Glomus was found to be positively correlated to total phosphorus (P<0.01), and negatively correlated to total potassium (P<0.001) and Organic of soil content (P<0.01). The genus Paraglomus was found to be negatively correlated to the total phosphorus of soil (P<0.001), and significantly positively correlated to total potassium (P<0.001), soil total salt (P<0.01), and soil organic content (P<0.01). The differences among the three species of licorice were obvious. The two dominant genera were in mutualism within the genus, but in competition among the genera. soil organic content had a certain influence on the two dominant genera. The tolerance of Paraglomus to salt is stronger and mostly found in the soil of Glycyrrhiza inflata Bat., G. inflata has strong salttolerant ability may be related to it.