The core bacterial microbiome of banana (Musa spp.).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bananas (Musa spp.) are a globally significant crop and are severely afflicted by diseases for which there are no effective chemical controls. Banana microbiomes may provide novel solutions to these constraints but are difficult to manage due to their high diversity and variability between locations. Hence 'common core' taxa, which are a subset of the microbiome that frequent all, or most, individuals of a host species, represent logical targets for the development of microbiome management approaches. Here, we first performed a pot experiment to characterise the effects of two factors that are likely to differ between farms (viz. edaphic conditions and host genotype) on bacterial diversity in bulk soil and seven plant compartments. From this experiment, we created shortl

SUBMITTER: Birt HWG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9461194 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature