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Using a Control to Better Understand Phyllosphere Microbiota.
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- Grapevine bacterial communities display compartment-specific dynamics over space and time within the Central Valley of California.Environmental microbiome · 2023Article
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- Phyllosphere microbial associations improve plant reproductive success.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Plant neighborhood shapes diversity and reduces interspecific variation of the phyllosphere microbiome.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Salicylic Acid-Mediated Disturbance Increases Bacterial Diversity in the Phyllosphere but Is Overcome by a Dominant Core Community.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Ecological Dynamics and Microbial Treatments against Oomycete Plant Pathogens.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Evaluating the lettuce metatranscriptome with MinION sequencing for future spaceflight food production applications.NPJ microgravity · 2021Article
- Grapevine Microbiota Reflect Diversity among Compartments and Complex Interactions within and among Root and Shoot Systems.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Horsenettle (PeerJ · 2021Article
- Seed-Transmitted Bacteria and Fungi Dominate Juvenile Plant Microbiomes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Microorganisms Move a Short Distance into an Almond Orchard from an Adjacent Upwind Poultry Operation.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
- Influence of Plant Fraction, Soil, and Plant Species on Microbiota: a Multikingdom Comparison.mBio · 2020Article
- Phyllosphere bacterial assembly in citrus crop under conventional and ecological management.PeerJ · 2020Article
- Metagenomic Characterization Reveals Pronounced Seasonality in the Diversity and Structure of the Phyllosphere Bacterial Community in a Mediterranean Ecosystem.Microorganisms · 2019Article
- Assembly and seasonality of core phyllosphere microbiota on perennial biofuel crops.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Driving factors of epiphytic bacterial communities: A review.Journal of advanced research · 2019Review
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Abstract
An important data gap in our understanding of the phyllosphere surrounds the origin of the many microbes described as phyllosphere communities. Most sampling in phyllosphere research has focused on the collection of microbiota without the use of a control, so the opportunity to determine which taxa are actually driven by the biology and physiology of plants as opposed to introduced by environmental forces has yet to be fully realized. To address this data gap, we used plastic plants as inanimate controls adjacent to live tomato plants (phyllosphere) in the field with the hope of distinguishing between bacterial microbiota that may be endemic to plants as opposed to introduced by environmental forces. Using 16S rRNA gene amplicons to study bacterial membership at four time points, we found that the vast majority of all species-level operational taxonomic units were shared at all time-points. Very few taxa were unique to phyllosphere samples. A higher taxonomic diversity was consistently observed in the control samples. The high level of shared taxonomy suggests that environmental forces likely play a very important role in the introduction of microbes to plant surfaces. The observation that very few taxa were unique to the plants compared to the number that were unique to controls was surprising and further suggests that a subset of environmentally introduced taxa thrive on plants. This finding has important implications for improving our approach to the description of core phytobiomes as well as potentially helping us better understand how foodborne pathogens may become associated with plant surfaces.
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