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Clonal Plants as Meta-Holobionts.
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- Consistent root microbiomes across contrasting habitats in a wild perennial vine.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Bacterial and Fungal Communities in Old Vines and Their Progeny: Insights into Microbial Inheritance Through Mass Selection.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Soil microbial processes shaping seed performance: linking soil microbiomes to sustainable agriculture.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Ecological mechanisms of microbial assembly in clonal plantApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Functional division of labor in motility, lignocellulose digestion, and nitrogen metabolism revealed for the Mixotricha paradoxa holobiont.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Halophytic Clonal Plant Species: Important Functional Aspects for Existence in Heterogeneous Saline Habitats.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Water Content of Plant Tissues: So Simple That Almost Forgotten?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Ecological corridors homogenize plant root endospheric mycobiota.The New phytologist · 2023Article
- Wild rice harbors more root endophytic fungi than cultivated rice in the F1 offspring after crossbreeding.BMC genomics · 2021Article
- Social networking in crop plants: Wired and wireless cross-plant communications.Plant, cell & environment · 2021Review
- The study of host-microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
The holobiont concept defines a given organism and its associated symbionts as a potential level of selection over evolutionary time. In clonal plants, recent experiments demonstrated vertical transmission of part of the microbiota from one ramet (i.e., potentially autonomous individual) to another within the clonal network (i.e., connections by modified stems present in ∼35% of all plants). Because of this heritability, and potentially reciprocal exchange of microbes between generations of ramets, we propose to extend the existing holobiont framework to the concept of meta-holobiont. A meta-holobiont is a network of holobionts that can exchange biomolecules and microbiota across generations, thus impacting the fitness of both biological scales: holobionts and meta-holobionts. Specifically, meta-holobiont dynamics can result in sharing, specialization, and division of labor across plant clonal generations. This paper, which coins the meta-holobiont concept, is expected to stimulate discussion and to be applied beyond the context of networked clonal plants (e.g., to social insects).
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