Assemblages of rhizospheric and root endospheric mycobiota and their ecological associations with functional traits of rice.

ABSTRACT: The soil-root interface harbors complex fungal communities that play vital roles in the fitness of host plants. However, little is known about the assembly rules and potential functions of rhizospheric and endospheric mycobiota. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to explore the fungal communities inhabiting the rhizosphere and roots of 87 rice cultivars at the tillering stage via amplicon sequencing of the fungal internal transcribed spacer 1 region. The potential relationships between these communities and host plant functional traits were also investigated using Procrustes analysis, generalized additive model fitting, and correlation analysis. The fungal microbiota exhibited greater richness, higher diversity, and lower structural variability in the rhizosphere than in the root endosp

SUBMITTER: Guo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10936437 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature