ArticlemBio2022
Single Seed Microbiota: Assembly and Transmission from Parent Plant to Seedling.
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29 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Bacterial endophytes journey from the seed to the seedling: an analysis of community structural shifts and bacterial localization during colonization.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Lactuchelins represent lipopeptide siderophores produced by Pseudomonas lactucae that inhibit Xanthomonas campestris.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Differential partitioning of seed-inhabiting methylotrophs in the endosphere of wheat plants.BMC biology · 2025Article
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- Defining the cultured and uncultured bacterial fractions in Cannabis seeds.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- The seed microbiota from an application perspective: an underexplored frontier in plant-microbe interactions.Crop health · 2025Review
- Seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome assembly via niche partitioning and facilitation.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- Seed-mediated vertical transmission of Pantoea core endophytes.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- The diversity, dynamics, and culturability of bacterial and fungal communities present in warm-season pasture grass seeds.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Stable, multigenerational transmission of the bean seed microbiome despite abiotic stress.mSystems · 2024Article
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Abstract
The seed acts as the primary inoculum source for the plant microbiota. Understanding the processes involved in its assembly and dynamics during germination and seedling emergence has the potential to allow for the improvement of crop establishment. Changes in the bacterial community structure were tracked in 1,000 individual seeds that were collected throughout seed developments of beans and radishes. Seeds were associated with a dominant bacterial taxon that represented more than 75% of all reads. The identity of this taxon was highly variable between the plants and within the seeds of the same plant. We identified selection as the main ecological process governing the succession of dominant taxa during seed filling and maturation. In a second step, we evaluated the seedling transmission of seed-borne taxa in 160 individual plants. While the initial bacterial abundance on seeds was not a good predictor of seedling transmission, the identities of the seed-borne taxa modified the phenotypes of seedlings. Overall, this work revealed that individual seeds are colonized by a few bacterial taxa of highly variable identity, which appears to be important for the early stages of plant development.
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