Presence of microbiome decreases fitness and modifies phenotype in the aquatic plant Lemna minor.

ABSTRACT: Plants live in close association with microbial organisms that inhabit the environment in which they grow. Much recent work has aimed to characterize these plant-microbiome interactions, identifying those associations that increase growth. Although most work has focused on terrestrial plants, Lemna minor, a floating aquatic angiosperm, is increasingly used as a model in host-microbe interactions and many bacterial associations have been shown to play an important role in supporting plant fitness. However, the ubiquity and stability of these interactions as well as their dependence on specific abiotic environmental conditions remain unclear. Here, we assess the impact of a full L. minor microbiome on plant fitness and phenotype by assaying plants from eight natural sites, with

SUBMITTER: Jewell MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10327544 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature