Unraveling endophytic diversity in dioecious Siraitia grosvenorii: implications for mogroside production.

ABSTRACT: Host and tissue-specificity of endophytes are important attributes that limit the endophyte application on multiple crops. Therefore, understanding the endophytic composition of the targeted crop is essential, especially for the dioecious plants where the male and female plants are different. Here, efforts were made to understand the endophytic bacterial composition of the dioecious Siraitia grosvenorii plant using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. The present study revealed the association of distinct endophytic bacterial communities with different parts of male and female plants. Roots of male and female plants had a higher bacterial diversity than other parts of plants, and the roots of male plants had more bacterial diversity than the roots of female plants. Endophytes belonging to the phy

SUBMITTER: Tamang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10907472 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature