The bacterial community in potato is recruited from soil and partly inherited across generations.

ABSTRACT: Strong efforts have been made to understand the bacterial communities in potato plants and the rhizosphere. Research has focused on the effect of the environment and plant genotype on bacterial community structures and dynamics, while little is known about the origin and assembly of the bacterial community, especially in potato tubers. The tuber microbiota, however, may be of special interest as it could play an important role in crop quality, such as storage stability. Here, we used 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to study the bacterial communities that colonize tubers of different potato cultivars commonly used in Austrian potato production over three generations and grown in different soils. Statistical analysis of sequencing data showed that the bacterial community of potato tubers h

SUBMITTER: Buchholz F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6839881 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature