Disease Resistance Correlates with Core Microbiome Diversity in Cotton.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the resident microbial communities and their above and below ground interactions with plants will provide necessary information for crop disease protection and stress management. In this study, we show how diversity of core microbiome varies with disease susceptibility of a crop. To test this hypothesis, we have focused on identifying the core microbial species of cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) susceptible Gossypium hirsutum and CLCuD resistant Gossypium arboreum under viral infestation. Derivation of core membership is challenging as it depends on an occupancy threshold of microbial species in a sampling pool, whilst accounting for different plant compartments. We have used an abundance-occupancy distribution approach where we dynamically assess the threshold for core memb

SUBMITTER: Aqueel R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11310248 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature