Abiotic Stresses Shift Belowground Populus-Associated Bacteria Toward a Core Stress Microbiome.

ABSTRACT: Adverse growth conditions can lead to decreased plant growth, productivity, and survival, resulting in poor yields or failure of crops and biofeedstocks. In some cases, the microbial community associated with plants has been shown to alleviate plant stress and increase plant growth under suboptimal growing conditions. A systematic understanding of how the microbial community changes under these conditions is required to understand the contribution of the microbiome to water utilization, nutrient uptake, and ultimately yield. Using a microbiome inoculation strategy, we studied how the belowground microbiome of Populus deltoides changes in response to diverse environmental conditions, including water limitation, light limitation (shading), and metal toxicity. While plant responses to

SUBMITTER: Timm CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5781258 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature