A Metabarcoding Analysis of the Mycobiome of Wheat Ears Across a Topographically Heterogeneous Field.

ABSTRACT: Plant associated microbial communities have recently received a lot of attention because thought to play a fundamental role in plant health and development. Focusing on cultivated crops, optimized farming practices must consider the role of these communities when aiming at reducing the impact of pathogens and increasing yields. Typical inhabitants of plant's phyllosphere are bacteria and microscopic fungi, some of them pathogenic for the plant and dangerous for the consumers, due to the production of toxins. In order to efficiently manage the microbiome, the natural drivers regulating community assembly must be clearly understood. In our study we investigated the within field variation of the phyllosphere mycobiome of wheat ears by metabarcoding of the fungal internal transcribed sequence

SUBMITTER: Schiro G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6746991 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature