Contrasting microbial assembly patterns in the woody endosphere of hybrid and non-hybrid <i>Populus</i> trees.

ABSTRACT: Endophytes asymptomatically infect virtually all plant species, yet little is known about endophyte community assembly and diversity within the woody tissues of forest trees. We utilised phylogenetic null models of alpha (ses.MNTD_ab and ses.MPD_ab) and beta diversity (ses.βMNTD_ab and ses.βMPD_ab) to infer the role of deterministic and stochastic ecological processes in structuring bacterial and fungal endophyte communities in the woody tissues of Populus deltoides and the naturally occurring P. × jackii hybrid complex (P. deltoides × P. balsamifera). Microbial communities were characterised through Illumina amplicon sequencing (MiSeq) of the ITS and 16S rRNA gene. We detected 227 fungal ASVs, which w

SUBMITTER: Grant KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12517286 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature