Niche Specialization and Functional Overlap of Bamboo Leaf and Root Microbiota.

ABSTRACT: Leaves and roots harbor taxonomically diverse bacterial assemblages which enhance plant growth and performance by increasing nutrient supply and resistance to stress. An extensive investigation of bacterial diversity and composition between leaf and root microbiota of 15 bamboo species differing in rhizome types, lifeforms and sampling sites were conducted by high-through sequencing. The alpha diversity between leaf and root microbiota was not significantly different, whereas, their beta diversity differed remarkably. Niche specialization mainly in species from Actinobacteria was detected which prefer to colonize in roots than leaves. Community structure of leaf microbiota was highly resembled, however, the phylogeny inferred by host's chloroplast data was incongruent with microbiota dendr

SUBMITTER: Zheng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7531387 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature