Exploring the Microbiota of East African Indigenous Leafy Greens for Plant Growth, Health, and Resilience.

ABSTRACT: Indigenous leafy green vegetable crops provide a promising nutritious alternative for East African agriculture under a changing climate; they are better able to cope with biotic and abiotic stresses than cosmopolitan vegetable crops. To verify our hypothesis that the associated microbiome is involved, we studied archaeal and bacterial communities of four locally popular leafy green crops in Uganda (Bidens pilosa, Solanum scabrum, Abelmoschus esculentus, and Gynandropsis gynandra) and of four plant microhabitats (phyllosphere, root endosphere, rhizosphere, and soil) by complementary analyses of amplicon and isolate libraries. All plants shared an unusually large core microbiome, comprising 18 procaryotic families but primarily consisting of Bacillus, Sp

SUBMITTER: Taffner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7710512 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature