Compartment-specific microbial communities highlight the ecological roles of fungi in a subtropical seagrass ecosystem.

ABSTRACT: Plant-associated compartments provide habitats for various microbes. Seagrasses are the only submerged marine angiosperms. However, the simultaneous investigation of fungi and prokaryotes inhabiting different seagrass-associated compartments is limited, and much remains to be learned about the functional roles of seagrass fungi. We examined the diversity, composition, and networks of fungal and prokaryotic communities in multiple compartments associated with the seagrass Halophila ovalis to shed light on the significance of fungi in the seagrass ecosystem. Seagrass compartments primarily differentiated the microbial communities. Notably, the root and rhizome tissues of visually healthy H. ovalis exhibited a very narrow, single-species dominated and enriched fungal spectrum, l

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12285264 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature