Water deficit affects inter-kingdom microbial connections in plant rhizosphere.

ABSTRACT: The frequency and severity of drought are increasing due to anthropogenic climate change and are already limiting cropping system productivity in many regions around the world. Few microbial groups within plant microbiomes can potentially contribute towards the fitness and productivity of their hosts under abiotic stress events including water deficits. However, microbial communities are complex and integrative work considering the multiple co-existing groups of organisms is needed to better understand how the entire microbiome responds to environmental stresses. We hypothesize that water deficit stress will differentially shape bacterial, fungal, and protistan microbiome composition and influence inter-kingdom microbial interactions in the rhizospheres of corn and sugar beet. We used ampl

SUBMITTER: Bazany KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545320 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature