Plant effects on microbiome composition are constrained by environmental conditions in a successional grassland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Below-ground microbes mediate key ecosystem processes and play a vital role in plant nutrition and health. Understanding the composition of the belowground microbiome is therefore important for maintaining ecosystem stability. The structure of the belowground microbiome is largely determined by individual plants, but it is not clear how far their influence extends and, conversely, what the influence of other plants growing nearby is.

Results

To determine the extent to which a focal host plant influences its soil and root microbiome when growing in a diverse community, we sampled the belowground bacterial and fungal communities of three plant species across a primary successional grassland sequence. The magnitude of the host effect on its belowground microbiome var

SUBMITTER: Meszarosova L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10809484 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature