The rice foot rot pathogen Dickeya zeae alters the in-field plant microbiome.

ABSTRACT: Studies on bacterial plant diseases have thus far been focused on the single bacterial species causing the disease, with very little attention given to the many other microorganisms present in the microbiome. This study intends to use pathobiome analysis of the rice foot rot disease, caused by Dickeya zeae, as a case study to investigate the effects of this bacterial pathogen to the total resident microbiome and to highlight possible interactions between the pathogen and the members of the community involved in the disease process. The microbiome of asymptomatic and the pathobiome of foot-rot symptomatic field-grown rice plants over two growing periods and belonging to two rice cultivars were determined via 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Results showed that the presence of D. zeae is a

SUBMITTER: Bez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292192 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature