Regional and Microenvironmental Scale Characterization of the Zostera muelleri Seagrass Microbiome.

ABSTRACT: Seagrasses are globally distributed marine plants that represent an extremely valuable component of coastal ecosystems. Like terrestrial plants, seagrass productivity and health are likely to be strongly governed by the structure and function of the seagrass microbiome, which will be distributed across a number of discrete microenvironments within the plant, including the phyllosphere, the endosphere and the rhizosphere, all different in physical and chemical conditions. Here we examined patterns in the composition of the microbiome of the seagrass Zostera muelleri, within six plant-associated microenvironments sampled across four different coastal locations in New South Wales, Australia. Amplicon sequencing approaches were used to characterize the diversity and composition of bacte

SUBMITTER: Hurtado-McCormick V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6527750 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature