The Metagenome of Utricularia gibba's Traps: Into the Microbial Input to a Carnivorous Plant.

ABSTRACT: The genome and transcriptome sequences of the aquatic, rootless, and carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba L. (Lentibulariaceae), were recently determined. Traps are necessary for U. gibba because they help the plant to survive in nutrient-deprived environments. The U. gibba's traps (Ugt) are specialized structures that have been proposed to selectively filter microbial inhabitants. To determine whether the traps indeed have a microbiome that differs, in composition or abundance, from the microbiome in the surrounding environment, we used whole-genome shotgun (WGS) metagenomics to describe both the taxonomic and functional diversity of the Ugt microbiome. We collected U. gibba plants from their natural habitat and directly sequenced the metagenome of the Ugt microbiome and its surrounding wa

SUBMITTER: Alcaraz LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4747601 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature