Shifts in Structure and Assembly Processes of Root Endophytic Community Caused by Climate Warming and Precipitation Increase in Alpine Grassland.

ABSTRACT: Climate change poses great challenges to the survival of plants. Plant endophytes play important roles in improving plant adaptability. However, our knowledge of the effects of climate change on endophytic community structures is limited. Relying on a field experimental platform simulating climate warming, precipitation increases, and their combination in an alpine grassland, the root endophytic bacterial community structures and assembly processes of three coexisting plant species (Elymus nutans, Kobresia humilis, and Melissilus ruthenicus) were measured. The results indicated that Proteobacteria was the dominant phylum, with a relative abundance ranging from 50% to 80%, followed by Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes. Bacterial diversity decreased significantly under th

SUBMITTER: Wei X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11434594 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature