The plant circadian clock influences rhizosphere community structure and function.

ABSTRACT: Plants alter chemical and physical properties of soil, and thereby influence rhizosphere microbial community structure. The structure of microbial communities may in turn affect plant performance. Yet, outside of simple systems with pairwise interacting partners, the plant genetic pathways that influence microbial community structure remain largely unknown, as are the performance feedbacks of microbial communities selected by the host plant genotype. We investigated the role of the plant circadian clock in shaping rhizosphere community structure and function. We performed 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing to characterize rhizosphere bacterial communities of Arabidopsis thaliana between day and night time points, and tested for differences in community structure between wild-type (Ws) vs cl

SUBMITTER: Hubbard CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5776454 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature