Spinach seed microbiome characteristics linked to suppressiveness against Globisporangium ultimum damping-off.

ABSTRACT: Recently we demonstrated that the seed microbiome of certain spinach (Spinacia oleracea) seed lots can confer disease suppression against Globisporangium ultimum damping-off (previously known as Pythium ultimum). We hypothesized that differences in the microbial community composition of spinach seed lots correlate with the levels of damping-off suppressiveness of each seed lot. Here, we show that a large proportion of variance in seed-associated bacterial (16S) and fungal (Internal Transcribed Spacer 1) amplicon sequences was explained by seed lot identity, while 9.8% of bacterial and 7.1% of fungal community variance correlated with disease suppression. More specifically, a higher relative abundance of basidiomycetous dimorphic yeasts such as Vishniacozyma, Filobasidium, and Papiliotrema

SUBMITTER: Diakaki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11775829 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature