Pioneer Arabidopsis thaliana spans the succession gradient revealing a diverse root-associated microbiome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Soil microbiomes are increasingly acknowledged to affect plant functioning. Research in molecular model species Arabidopsis thaliana has given detailed insights of such plant-microbiome interactions. However, the circumstances under which natural A. thaliana plants have been studied so far might represent only a subset of A. thaliana's full ecological context and potential biotic diversity of its root-associated microbiome.

Results

We collected A. thaliana root-associated soils from a secondary succession gradient covering 40 years of land abandonment. All field sites were situated on the same parent soil material and in the same climatic region. By sequencing the bacterial and fungal communities and soil abiotic analysis we discovered differences in both the biot

SUBMITTER: Hesen V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10357733 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature