Root Microbiome and Metabolome Traits Associated with Improved Post-Harvest Root Storage for Sugar Beet Breeding Lines Under Southern Idaho Conditions.

ABSTRACT: Post-harvest storage loss in sugar beets due to root rot and respiration can cause >20% sugar loss. Breeding strategies focused on factors contributing to improved post-harvest storage quality are of great importance to prevent losses. Using 16S rRNA and ITS sequencing and sugar beet mutational breeding lines with high disease resistance (R), along with a susceptible (S) commercial cultivar, the role of root microbiome and metabolome in storage performance was investigated. The R lines in general showed higher abundances of bacterial phyla, Patescibacteria at the M time point, and Cyanobacteria and Desulfobacterota at the L time point. Amongst fungal phyla, Basidiomycota (including Athelia) and Ascomycota were predominant in diseased samples. Linea

SUBMITTER: Majumdar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11640815 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature