Influence of seasonal changes and salinity on spinach phyllosphere bacterial functional assemblage.

ABSTRACT: The phyllosphere is the aerial part of plants that is exposed to different environmental conditions and is also known to harbor a wide variety of bacteria including both plant and human pathogens. However, studies on phyllosphere bacterial communities have focused on bacterial composition at different stages of plant growth without correlating their functional capabilities to bacterial communities. In this study, we examined the seasonal effects and temporal variabilities driving bacterial community composition and function in spinach phyllosphere due to increasing salinity and season and estimated the functional capacity of bacterial community16S V4 rRNA gene profiles by indirectly inferring the abundance of functional genes based on metagenomics inference tool Piphillin. The experimental

SUBMITTER: Ibekwe AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8168849 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature