ArticleJournal of experimental botany2020
Unique bacterial assembly, composition, and interactions in a parasitic plant and its host.
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- Bacterial Communities Are Less Diverse in a Strepsipteran Endoparasitoid than in Its Fruit Fly Hosts and Dominated by Wolbachia.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- The Microbial Connection to Sustainable Agriculture.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- From guest to host: parasite Cistanche deserticola shapes and dominates bacterial and fungal community structure and network complexity.Environmental microbiome · 2023Article
- MIxS-SA: a MIxS extension defining the minimum information standard for sequence data from symbiont-associated micro-organisms.ISME communications · 2022Article
- Unique bacterial assembly, composition, and interactions in a parasitic plant and its host.Journal of experimental botany · 2020Article
- Populations of the Parasitic PlantFrontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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Abstract
How plant-associated microbiota are shaped by, and potentially contribute to, the unique ecology and heterotrophic life history of parasitic plants is relatively unknown. Here, we investigate the leaf and root bacterial communities of the root holoparasite Orobanche hederae and its host Hedera spp. from natural populations. Root bacteria inhabiting Orobanche were less diverse, had fewer co-associations, and displayed increased compositional similarity to leaf bacteria relative to Hedera. Overall, Orobanche bacteria exhibited significant congruency with Hedera root bacteria across sites, but not the surrounding soil. Infection had localized and systemic effects on Hedera bacteria, which included effects on the abundance of individual taxa and root network properties. Collectively, our results indicate that the parasitic plant microbiome is derived but distinct from the host plant microbiota, exhibits increased homogenization between shoot and root tissues, and displays far fewer co-associations among individual bacterial members. Host plant infection is accompanied by modest changes of associated microbiota at both local and systemic scales compared with uninfected individuals. Our results are a first step towards extending the growing insight into the assembly and function of the plant microbiome to include the ecologically unique but often overlooked guild of heterotrophic plants.
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