Metatranscriptomics and Amplicon Sequencing Reveal Mutualisms in Seagrass Microbiomes.

ABSTRACT: Terrestrial plants benefit from many well-understood mutualistic relationships with root- and leaf-associated microbiomes, but relatively little is known about these relationships for seagrass and other aquatic plants. We used 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and metatranscriptomics to assess potential mutualisms between microorganisms and the seagrasses Zostera marina and Zostera japonica collected from mixed beds in Netarts Bay, OR, United States. The phylogenetic composition of leaf-, root-, and water column-associated bacterial communities were strikingly different, but these communities were not significantly different between plant species. Many taxa present on leaves were related to organisms capable of consuming the common plant metabolic waste product methanol, and

SUBMITTER: Crump BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5863793 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature