ArticleEnvironmental microbiology reports2024
The rhizosphere of a drought-tolerant plant species in Morocco: A refuge of high microbial diversity with no taxon preference.
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- Potential Plant-To-Plant Transmission: Shared Endophytic Bacterial Community Between Ziziphus lotus and Its Parasite Cuscuta epithymum.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- The rhizosphere of a drought-tolerant plant species in Morocco: A refuge of high microbial diversity with no taxon preference.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Arid and semi-arid areas are facing increasingly severe water deficits that are being intensified by global climate changes. Microbes associated with plants native to arid regions provide valuable benefits to plants, especially in water-stressed environments. In this study, we used 16S rDNA metabarcoding analysis to examine the bacterial communities in the bulk soil, rhizosphere and root endosphere of the plant Malva sylvestris L. in Morocco, along a gradient of precipitation. We found that the rhizosphere of M. sylvestris did not show significant differences in beta-diversity compared to bulk soil, although, it did display an increased degree of alpha-diversity. The endosphere was largely dominated by the genus Rhizobium and displayed remarkable variation between plants, which could not be attributed to any of the variables observed in this study. Overall, the effects of precipitation level were relatively weak, which may be related to the intense drought in Morocco at the time of sampling. The dominance of Rhizobium in a non-leguminous plant is particularly noteworthy and may permit the utilization of this bacterial taxon to augment drought tolerance; additionally, the absence of any notable selection of the rhizosphere of M. sylvestris suggests that it is not significatively affecting its soil environment.
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