Seed tuber imprinting shapes the next-generation potato microbiome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Potato seed tubers are colonized and inhabited by soil-borne microbes, that can affect the performance of the emerging daughter plant in the next season. In this study, we investigated the intergenerational inheritance of microbiota from seed tubers to next-season daughter plants under field condition by amplicon sequencing of bacterial and fungal microbiota associated with tubers and roots, and tracked the microbial transmission from different seed tuber compartments to sprouts.

Results

We observed that field of production and potato genotype significantly (P < 0.01) affected the composition of the seed tuber microbiome and that these differences persisted during winter storage of the seed tubers. Remarkably, when seed tubers from different production fields were

SUBMITTER: Song Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10882817 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature