Effects of agricultural management on phyllosphere fungal diversity in vineyards and the association with adjacent native forests.

ABSTRACT: Agriculture is one of the main drivers of land conversion, and agriculture practices can impact on microbial diversity. Here we characterized the phyllosphere fungal diversity associated with Carménère grapevines under conventional and organic agricultural management. We also explored the fungal diversity present in the adjacent sclerophyllous forests to explore the potential role of native forest on vineyard phyllosphere. After conducting D2 and ITS2 amplicon sequencing, we found that fungal diversity indices did not change between conventional and organic vineyards, but community structure was sensitive to the agricultural management. On the other hand, we found a high proportion of shared fungal OTUs between vineyards and native forests. In addition, both habitats had similar levels of

SUBMITTER: Castaneda LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6211267 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature