Coupling the endophytic microbiome with the host transcriptome in olive roots.

ABSTRACT: The connection between olive genetic responses to environmental and agro-climatic conditions and the composition, structure and functioning of host-associated, belowground microbiota has never been studied under the holobiont conceptual framework. Two groups of cultivars growing under the same environmental, pedological and agronomic conditions, and showing highest (AH) and lowest (AL) Actinophytocola relative abundances, were earlier identified. We aimed now to: i) compare the root transcriptome profiles of these two groups harboring significantly different relative abundances in the above-mentioned bacterial genus; ii) examine their rhizosphere and root-endosphere microbiota co-occurrence networks; and iii) connect the root host transcriptome pattern to the composition of the root

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Gonzalez AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8411203 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature