Leaf-associated fungal and viral communities of wild plant populations differ between cultivated and natural ecosystems.

ABSTRACT: Plants are colonized by diverse fungal and viral communities that influence their growth and survival as well as ecosystem functioning. Viruses interact with both plants and the fungi they host. Our understanding of plant-fungi-virus interactions is very limited, especially in wild plants. Combining metagenomic and culturomic approaches, we assessed the richness, diversity, and composition of leaf-associated fungal and viral communities from pools of herbaceous wild plants representative of four sites corresponding to cultivated or natural ecosystems. We identified 161 fungal families and 18 viral families comprising 249 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase-based operational taxonomic units (RdRp OTUs) from leaves. Fungal culturomics captured 12.3% of the fungal diversity recovered with metagenomi

SUBMITTER: Ma Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10168098 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature