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Adaptive matching between phyllosphere bacteria and their tree hosts in a neotropical forest.
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- Ecological mechanisms of microbial assembly in clonal plantApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- The effects of small geographical resolution and age on the phyllosphere microbial diversity ofMicrobiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Role of metabolism, resistance, and/or antagonism as drivers of endomicrobiomes assemblage in Origanum heracleoticum L.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Leaf Endophytes Relationship with Host Metabolome Expression in Tropical Gymnosperms.Journal of chemical ecology · 2024Article
- Coniferous Tree Species Identity and Leaf Aging Alter the Composition of Phyllosphere Communities Through Changes in Leaf Traits.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- Forest top canopy bacterial communities are influenced by elevation and host tree traits.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Host genetic variation and specialized metabolites from wheat leaves enriches for phyllosphere Pseudomonas spp. with enriched antibiotic resistomes.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Relationships between Phyllosphere Bacterial Communities and Leaf Functional Traits in a Temperate Forest.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Soil microbial gene expression in an agricultural ecosystem varies with time and neonicotinoid seed treatments.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2023Article
- Microbiome sustains forest ecosystem functions across hierarchical scales.Eco-Environment & Health · 2023Review
- Seasonal activities of the phyllosphere microbiome of perennial crops.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe phyllosphere is an important microbial habitat, but our understanding of how plant hosts drive the composition of their associated leaf microbial communities and whether taxonomic associations between plants and phyllosphere microbes represent adaptive matching remains limited. In this study, we quantify bacterial functional diversity in the phyllosphere of 17 tree species in a diverse neotropical forest using metagenomic shotgun sequencing. We ask how hosts drive the functional composition of phyllosphere communities and their turnover across tree species, using host functional traits and phylogeny.
resultsNeotropical tree phyllosphere communities are dominated by functions related to the metabolism of carbohydrates, amino acids, and energy acquisition, along with environmental signalling pathways involved in membrane transport. While most functional variation was observed within communities, there is non-random assembly of microbial functions across host species possessing different leaf traits. Metabolic functions related to biosynthesis and degradation of secondary compounds, along with signal transduction and cell-cell adhesion, were particularly important in driving the match between microbial functions and host traits. These microbial functions were also evolutionarily conserved across the host phylogeny.
conclusionsFunctional profiling based on metagenomic shotgun sequencing offers evidence for the presence of a core functional microbiota across phyllosphere communities of neotropical trees. While functional turnover across phyllosphere communities is relatively small, the association between microbial functions and leaf trait gradients among host species supports a significant role for plant hosts as selective filters on phyllosphere community assembly. This interpretation is supported by the presence of phylogenetic signal for the microbial traits driving inter-community variation across the host phylogeny. Taken together, our results suggest that there is adaptive matching between phyllosphere microbes and their plant hosts. Video abstract.
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