Methanol utilizers of the rhizosphere and phyllosphere of a common grass and forb host species.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Managed grasslands are global sources of atmospheric methanol, which is one of the most abundant volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere and promotes oxidative capacity for tropospheric and stratospheric ozone depletion. The phyllosphere is a favoured habitat of plant-colonizing methanol-utilizing bacteria. These bacteria also occur in the rhizosphere, but their relevance for methanol consumption and ecosystem fluxes is unclear. Methanol utilizers of the plant-associated microbiota are key for the mitigation of methanol emission through consumption. However, information about grassland plant microbiota members, their biodiversity and metabolic traits, and thus key actors in the global methanol budget is largely lacking.

Results

We investigated the methanol ut

SUBMITTER: Kanukollu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9258066 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature