Genetic control of rhizosphere microbiome of the cotton plants under field conditions.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the extent of heritability of a plant-associated microbiome (phytobiome) is critically important for exploitation of phytobiomes in agriculture. Two crosses were made between pairs of cotton cultivars (Z2 and J11, L1 and Z49) with differential resistance to Verticillium wilt. F₂ plants were grown in a field, together with the four parents to study the heritability of cotton rhizosphere microbiome. Amplicon sequencing was used to profile bacterial and fungal communities in the rhizosphere. F₂ offspring plants of both crosses had higher average alpha diversity indices than the two parents; parents differed significantly from F₂ offspring in Bray-Curtis beta diversity indices as well. Two types of data were used to study the heritability of rhizo

SUBMITTER: Wei F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11166756 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature