Prairie plants harbor distinct and beneficial root-endophytic bacterial communities.

ABSTRACT: Plant-soil feedback studies attempt to understand the interplay between composition of plant and soil microbial communities. A growing body of literature suggests that plant species can coexist when they interact with a subset of the soil microbial community that impacts plant performance. Most studies focus on the microbial community in the soil rhizosphere; therefore, the degree to which the bacterial community within plant roots (root-endophytic compartment) influences plant-microbe interactions remains relatively unknown. To determine if there is an interaction between conspecific vs heterospecific soil microbes and plant performance, we sequenced root-endophytic bacterial communities of five tallgrass-prairie plant species, each reciprocally grown with soil microbes from each hosts' s

SUBMITTER: Adu-Oppong B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7310688 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature