Trophic modulation of endophytes by rhizosphere protists.

ABSTRACT: The plant-microbe interactions, which is crucial for plant health and productivity, mainly occur in rhizosphere: a narrow zone of soil surrounding roots of living plants. The rhizosphere hosts one of the most intense habitats for microbial prey-predator interactions, especially between predatory protists and bacteria. Here, based on two key facts, microbial predators modulate rhizobacterial community composition, and the rhizobacterial community is the primary source of root microbiome, endophytes; we hypothesized that predation upon rhizobacteria would modulate the community composition of endophytic bacteria. The effects of three taxonomically distinct axenic protist species (Acanthamoeba castellanii, Vermamoeba vermiformis, and Heteromita globosa) were tested in this study. To examine t

SUBMITTER: Asiloglu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11630321 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature