ArticleThe New phytologist2021
Cable bacteria at oxygen-releasing roots of aquatic plants: a widespread and diverse plant-microbe association.
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- Extracellular electron transfer in cable bacteria enables growth rates comparable to aerobic respiration.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Artificial sediments enable reproducible cultivation and recapitulate ecological interactions of cable bacteria.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Biochemical parameters as early indicators of seagrass transplant's health.Conservation physiology · 2026Article
- Microbiome matters: how transplantation methods and donor origins shape the successful restoration of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Compartment-specific microbial communities highlight the ecological roles of fungi in a subtropical seagrass ecosystem.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Comparison of cable bacteria genera reveals details of their conduction machinery.EMBO reports · 2025Article
- Multidisciplinary methodologies used in the study of cable bacteria.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
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- On the diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of cable bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Climate change challenges, plant science solutions.The Plant cell · 2023Article
- Microbial succession in a marine sediment: Inferring interspecific microbial interactions with marine cable bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
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- Nested interactions between chemosynthetic lucinid bivalves and seagrass promote ecosystem functioning in contaminated sediments.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Cable bacteria are sulfide-oxidising, filamentous bacteria that reduce toxic sulfide levels, suppress methane emissions and drive nutrient and carbon cycling in sediments. Recently, cable bacteria have been found associated with roots of aquatic plants and rice (Oryza sativa). However, the extent to which cable bacteria are associated with aquatic plants in nature remains unexplored. Using newly generated and public 16S rRNA gene sequence datasets combined with fluorescence in situ hybridisation, we investigated the distribution of cable bacteria around the roots of aquatic plants, encompassing seagrass (including seagrass seedlings), rice, freshwater and saltmarsh plants. Diverse cable bacteria were found associated with roots of 16 out of 28 plant species and at 36 out of 55 investigated sites, across four continents. Plant-associated cable bacteria were confirmed across a variety of ecosystems, including marine coastal environments, estuaries, freshwater streams, isolated pristine lakes and intensive agricultural systems. This pattern indicates that this plant-microbe relationship is globally widespread and neither obligate nor species specific. The occurrence of cable bacteria in plant rhizospheres may be of general importance to vegetation vitality, primary productivity, coastal restoration practices and greenhouse gas balance of rice fields and wetlands.
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