ArticlePloS one2015
Shifts in Symbiotic Endophyte Communities of a Foundational Salt Marsh Grass following Oil Exposure from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Key findings from 15 years ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Review
- Intraspecific variation in plant-fungal interactions across tidal elevation in a salt marsh.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Environmental and host plant effects on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of root fungal endophytes.FEMS microbiology letters · 2025Article
- Identification ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Bacterial and fungal root endophytes alter survival, growth, and resistance to grazing in a foundation plant species.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Isolation, molecular identification, and genomic analysis ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Microbial Metabolites Beneficial to Plant Hosts Across Ecosystems.Microbial ecology · 2023Review
- Alterations of endophytic microbial community function in Spartina alterniflora as a result of crude oil exposure.Biodegradation · 2022Article
- Combatting insects mediated biotic stress through plant associated endophytic entomopathogenic fungi in horticultural crops.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Fungal Biodiversity in Salt Marsh Ecosystems.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Glutathione S-transferase activity in aquatic macrophytes and halophytes and biotransformation potential for biocides.Journal of plant research · 2021Article
- Dark septate endophyte improves salt tolerance of native and invasive lineages of Phragmites australis.The ISME journal · 2020Article
- Aquaponics using a fish farm effluent shifts bacterial communities profile in halophytes rhizosphere and endosphere.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Foliar fungal endophyte communities are structured by environment but not host ecotype in Panicum virgatum (switchgrass).Ecology · 2018Article
- Responses of the Endophytic Bacterial Communities ofFrontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- Fungal Endophytes: Beyond Herbivore Management.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Review
- Synergistic rhizosphere degradation of γ-hexachlorocyclohexane (lindane) through the combinatorial plant-fungal action.PloS one · 2017Article
- Plant Host and Geographic Location Drive Endophyte Community Composition in the Face of Perturbation.Microbial ecology · 2016Article
- Microbiomes: unifying animal and plant systems through the lens of community ecology theory.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Symbiotic associations can be disrupted by disturbance or by changing environmental conditions. Endophytes are fungal and bacterial symbionts of plants that can affect performance. As in more widely known symbioses, acute or chronic stressor exposure might trigger disassociation of endophytes from host plants. We tested this hypothesis by examining the effects of oil exposure following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill on endophyte diversity and abundance in Spartina alterniflora - the foundational plant in northern Gulf coast salt marshes affected by the spill. We compared bacterial and fungal endophytes isolated from plants in reference areas to isolates from plants collected in areas with residual oil that has persisted for more than three years after the DWH spill. DNA sequence-based estimates showed that oil exposure shifted endophyte diversity and community structure. Plants from oiled areas exhibited near total loss of leaf fungal endophytes. Root fungal endophytes exhibited a more modest decline and little change was observed in endophytic bacterial diversity or abundance, though a shift towards hydrocarbon metabolizers was found in plants from oiled sites. These results show that plant-endophyte symbioses can be disrupted by stressor exposure, and indicate that symbiont community disassembly in marsh plants is an enduring outcome of the DWH spill.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.