Weeds Harbor an Impressive Diversity of Fungi, Which Offers Possibilities for Biocontrol.

ABSTRACT: The use of herbicides for weed control is very common, but some of them represent a threat to human health, are environmentally detrimental, and stimulate herbicide resistance. Therefore, using microorganisms as natural herbicides appears as a promising alternative. The mycoflorae colonizing different species of symptomatic and asymptomatic weeds were compared to characterize the possible mycoherbicidal candidates associated with symptomatic weeds. A collection of 475 symptomatic and asymptomatic plants belonging to 23 weed species was established. A metabarcoding approach based on amplification of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region combined with high-throughput amplicon sequencing revealed the diversity of fungal communities hosted by these weeds: 542 fungal genera were identifi

SUBMITTER: Triolet M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8939358 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature