ArticleEcology letters2025
Seasonal Assembly of Nectar Microbial Communities Across Angiosperm Plant Species: Assessing Contributions of Climate and Plant Traits.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Floral scent chemodiversity is associated with high floral visitor but low bacterial richness on flowers.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Impact of phage treatment on fire blight disease outcome and floral microbiome composition.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Experimental Immigration Mediates Ecological Selection and Drift in Monarch Microbiome Assembly.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Pollen diet, more than geographic distance, shapes provision microbiome composition in two species of cavity-nesting bees.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Nectar peroxide: assessing variation among plant species, microbial tolerance, and effects on microbial community assembly.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity and Within-Environment Trait Variability in the Assembly of the Nectar Microbiome and Plant-Microbe-Animal Interactions.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Tiny but mighty? Overview of a decade of research on nectar bacteria.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Demethylation Inhibitor Fungicides Have a Significantly Detrimental Impact on Population Growth and Composition of Nectar Microbial Communities.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plant-microbe associations are ubiquitous, but parsing contributions of dispersal, host filtering, competition and temperature on microbial community composition is challenging. Floral nectar-inhabiting microbes, which can influence flowering plant health and pollination, offer a tractable system to disentangle community assembly processes. We inoculated a synthetic community of yeasts and bacteria into nectars of 31 plant species while excluding pollinators. We monitored weather and, after 24 h, collected and cultured communities. We found a strong signature of plant species on resulting microbial abundance and community composition, in part explained by plant phylogeny and nectar peroxide content, but not floral morphology. Increasing temperature reduced microbial diversity, while higher minimum temperatures increased growth, suggesting complex ecological effects of temperature. Consistent nectar microbial communities within plant species could enable plant or pollinator adaptation. Our work supports the roles of host identity, traits and temperature in microbial community assembly, and indicates diversity-productivity relationships within host-associated microbiomes.
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