Covariation of soil bacterial composition with plant rarity.

ABSTRACT: Rare and common plants are predicted to host different rhizospheric microbes. To evaluate this prediction, we used terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis to compare rhizospheric bacteria from eight native grass species whose local abundances in their natural ecosystem spanned a 15-fold range. We observed that locally rare versus common plants are associated with divergent bacterial communities.

SUBMITTER: Huguet V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2976196 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature