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Lasa AV, Fernández-González AJ, Villadas PJ, Mercado-Blanco J, Pérez-Luque AJ, Fernández-López M. Mediterranean pine forest decline: A matter of root-associated microbiota and climate change. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 926:171858. [PMID: 38522529 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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Forest ecosystems worldwide currently face worrying episodes of forest decline, which have boosted weakening and mortality of the trees. In the Mediterranean region, especially in the southeast Iberian Peninsula, Pinus sylvestris forests are severely affected by this phenomenon, and it has been commonly attributed to drought events. Remarkably, the role of root microbiota on pine decline has been overlooked and remains unclear. We therefore used metabarcoding to identify the belowground microbial communities of decline-affected and unaffected pine trees. Taxonomic composition of bacterial and fungal rhizosphere communities, and fungal populations dwelling in root endosphere showed different profiles depending on the health status of the trees. The root endosphere of asymptomatic trees was as strongly dominated by 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pini' as the root of decline-affected pines, accounting for >99 % of the total bacterial sequences in some samples. Notwithstanding, the titer of this phytopathogen was four-fold higher in symptomatic trees than in symptomless ones. Furthermore, the microbiota inhabiting the root endosphere of decline-affected trees assembled into a less complex and more modularized network. Thus, the observed changes in the microbial communities could be a cause or a consequence of forest decline phenomenon. Moreover, 'Ca. Phytoplasma pini' is positively correlated to Pinus sylvestris decline events, either as the primary cause of pine decline or as an opportunistic pathogen exacerbating the process once the tree has been weaken by other factors.
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- Ana V Lasa
- Department of Soil and Plant Microbiology, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Soil and Plant Microbiology, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Soil and Plant Microbiology, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Soil and Plant Microbiology, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Assesment, Restoration and Protection of Mediterranean Agrosystem (SERPAM), Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain; Institute of Forest Sciences ICIFOR, INIA-CSIC. Ctra. La Coruña km 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Soil and Plant Microbiology, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain.
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Liu Y, Zhao K, Stirling E, Wang X, Gao Z, Ma B, Xu C, Chen S, Chu G, Zhang X, Wang D. Heterosis of endophytic microbiomes in hybrid rice varieties improves seed germination. mSystems 2024; 9:e0000424. [PMID: 38591897 PMCID: PMC11097635 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00004-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024] Open
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Seed endophytic microbiomes are shaped by host and environmental factors and play a crucial role in their host growth and health. Studies have demonstrated that host genotype, including hybridization, affects seed microbiomes. Heterosis features are also observed in root-associated microbiomes. It remains unclear, however, whether heterosis exists in seed endophytic microbiomes and whether hybrid microbiota provide noticeable advantages to host plant growth, especially to seed germination. Here, we investigated the structure of seed endophytic bacterial and fungal communities from three hybrid rice varieties and their respective parents using amplicon sequencing targeting 16S rRNA and ITS2 genes. Heterosis was found in diversity and composition of seed endophytic microbiomes in hybrids, which hosted more diverse communities and significantly higher abundances of plant growth-promoting taxa, such as Pseudomonas and Rhizobium genera compared with their parental lines. Co-occurrence network analysis revealed that there are potentially tighter microbial interactions in the hybrid seeds compared with their parent seeds. Finally, inoculation of seed-cultivable endophytes, isolated from hybrids, resulted in a greater promotion of seed germination compared with those isolated from parent lines. These findings suggest that heterosis exists not only in plant traits but also in seed endophytic microbiota, the latter in turn promotes seed germination, which offers valuable guidance for microbiome-assisted rice breeding.IMPORTANCEGenetic and physiological changes associated with plant hybridization have been studied for many crop species. Still, little is known about the impact of hybridization on the seed microbiota. In this study, we indicate that hybridization has a significant impact on the endophytic bacterial and fungal communities in rice seeds. The seed endophytic microbiomes of hybrids displayed distinct characteristics from those of their parental lines and exhibited potential heterosis features. Furthermore, the inoculation of seed-cultivable endophytes isolated from hybrids exhibited a greater promotion effect on seed germination compared with those isolated from the parents. Our findings make a valuable contribution to the emerging field of microbiome-assisted plant breeding, highlighting the potential for a targeted approach that aims to achieve not only desired plant traits but also plant-beneficial microbial communities on the seeds.
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- Yuanhui Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Agriculture and Food, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Adelaide, Australia
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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- The State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Zheng W, Gan Y, Yang Y, Peng K, Li F, Zhao H, Gu W, Jiang M. Clinicopathological features and mucosal microbiota in gastric mucosal damage between nodular and non-nodular gastritis in children with Helicobacter pylori infection. Int Immunopharmacol 2024; 131:111813. [PMID: 38493689 DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2024.111813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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AIMS Nodular gastritis (NG) represents a frequently observed clinical presentation of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in pediatric patients. This investigation aimed to explore the microbiota and histological features of the gastric mucosa in children with H. pylori colonized NG. MAIN METHODS The current investigation examined a sample of 120 children who underwent gastroscopy due to symptoms of gastrointestinal distress, which showed that 64 were patients with H. pylori infection. Endoscopic procedures were conducted to acquire mucosal biopsies for the purpose of DNA extraction and histopathological analysis. The 16S rRNA profiling was utilized to examine the gastric mucosal microbiota. KEY FINDINGS In conjunction with endoscopic evaluation, 26 of 64 patients were diagnosed with NG. The NG group had significantly higher inflammation scores and activity scores on histological assessment than the non-NG group. The NG group exhibited a significant reduction in the richness levels of the five genera. In terms of the predicted functions, the pathways of synthesis and degradation of ketone bodies and phagosome in the NG group were less abundant compared with the non-NG group, while the Wnt signaling pathway was significantly enriched. NG does not increase a microbial community that possesses genotoxic potential within the gastric mucosa. SIGNIFICANCE In conclusion, NG group exhibited significant severe inflammation and reduced abundance levels of several bacterial genera compared to the non-NG group. However, individuals with NG did not have a dysregulated microbial community with genotoxic potential.
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- Wei Zheng
- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China; Pediatric Endoscopy Center and Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China.
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Abdullaeva Y, Ratering S, Rosado-Porto D, Ambika Manirajan B, Glatt A, Schnell S, Cardinale M. Domestication caused taxonomical and functional shifts in the wheat rhizosphere microbiota, and weakened the natural bacterial biocontrol against fungal pathogens. Microbiol Res 2024; 281:127601. [PMID: 38218094 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2024.127601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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Modern crops might have lost some of their functional traits, required for interacting with beneficial microbes, as a result of the genotypic/phenotypic modifications that occurred during domestication. Here, we studied the bacterial and fungal microbiota in the rhizosphere of two cultivated wheat species (Triticum aestivum and T. durum) and their respective ancestors (Aegilops tauschii and T. dicoccoides), in three experimental fields, by using metabarcoding of 16S rRNA genes and ITS2, coupled with co-occurrence network analysis. Moreover, the abundance of bacterial genes involved in N- and P-cycles was estimated by quantitative PCR, and urease, alkaline phosphatase and phosphomonoesterase activities were assessed by enzymatic tests. The relationships between microbiota and environmental metadata were tested by correlation analysis. The assemblage of core microbiota was affected by both site and plant species. No significant differences in the abundance of potential fungal pathogens between wild and cultivated wheat species were found; however, co-occurrence analysis showed more bacterial-fungal negative correlations in the wild species. Concerning functions, the nitrogen denitrification nirS gene was consistently more abundant in the rhizosphere of A. tauschii than T. aestivum. Urease activity was higher in the rhizosphere of each wild wheat species in at least two of the research locations. Several microbiota members, including potentially beneficial taxa such as Lysobacter and new taxa such as Blastocatellaceae, were found to be strongly correlated to rhizospheric soil metadata. Our results showed that a functional microbiome shift occurred as a result of wheat domestication. Notably, these changes also included the reduction of the natural biocontrol potential of rhizosphere-associated bacteria against pathogenic fungi, suggesting that domestication disrupted the equilibrium of plant-microbe relationships that had been established during million years of co-evolution.
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies - DiSTeBA, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
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Magesh S, Hurley AI, Nepper JF, Chevrette MG, Schrope JH, Li C, Beebe DJ, Handelsman J. Surface colonization by Flavobacterium johnsoniae promotes its survival in a model microbial community. mBio 2024; 15:e0342823. [PMID: 38329367 PMCID: PMC10936215 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03428-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/09/2024] Open
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Flavobacterium johnsoniae is a ubiquitous soil and rhizosphere bacterium, but despite its abundance, the factors contributing to its success in communities are poorly understood. Using a model microbial community, The Hitchhikers of the Rhizosphere (THOR), we determined the effects of colonization on the fitness of F. johnsoniae in the community. Insertion sequencing, a massively parallel transposon mutant screen, on sterile sand identified 25 genes likely to be important for surface colonization. We constructed in-frame deletions of candidate genes predicted to be involved in cell membrane biogenesis, motility, signal transduction, and transport of amino acids and lipids. All mutants poorly colonized sand, glass, and polystyrene and produced less biofilm than the wild type, indicating the importance of the targeted genes in surface colonization. Eight of the nine colonization-defective mutants were also unable to form motile biofilms or zorbs, thereby suggesting that the affected genes play a role in group movement and linking stationary and motile biofilm formation genetically. Furthermore, we showed that the deletion of colonization genes in F. johnsoniae affected its behavior and survival in THOR on surfaces, suggesting that the same traits are required for success in a multispecies microbial community. Our results provide insight into the mechanisms of surface colonization by F. johnsoniae and form the basis for further understanding its ecology in the rhizosphere. IMPORTANCE Microbial communities direct key environmental processes through multispecies interactions. Understanding these interactions is vital for manipulating microbiomes to promote health in human, environmental, and agricultural systems. However, microbiome complexity can hinder our understanding of the underlying mechanisms in microbial community interactions. As a first step toward unraveling these interactions, we explored the role of surface colonization in microbial community interactions using The Hitchhikers Of the Rhizosphere (THOR), a genetically tractable model community of three bacterial species, Flavobacterium johnsoniae, Pseudomonas koreensis, and Bacillus cereus. We identified F. johnsoniae genes important for surface colonization in solitary conditions and in the THOR community. Understanding the mechanisms that promote the success of bacteria in microbial communities brings us closer to targeted manipulations to achieve outcomes that benefit agriculture, the environment, and human health.
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- Shruthi Magesh
- Department of Plant Pathology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- University of Florida Genetics Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Winter H, Wagner R, Ehlbeck J, Urich T, Schnabel U. Deep Impact: Shifts of Native Cultivable Microbial Communities on Fresh Lettuce after Treatment with Plasma-Treated Water. Foods 2024; 13:282. [PMID: 38254583 PMCID: PMC10815073 DOI: 10.3390/foods13020282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2023] [Revised: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Foods consumed raw, such as lettuce, can host food-borne human-pathogenic bacteria. In the worst-case, these diseases cause to death. To limit illness and industrial losses, one innovative sanitation method is non-thermal plasma, which offers an extremely efficient reduction of living microbial biomass. Unfortunately, the total viable count (TVC), one of the most common methods for quantifying antimicrobial effects, provides no detailed insights into the composition of the surviving microbial community after treatment. To address this information gap, different special agars were used to investigate the reduction efficiency of plasma-treated water (PTW) on different native cultivable microorganisms. All tested cultivable microbial groups were reduced using PTW. Gram-negative bacteria showed a reduction of 3.81 log10, and Gram-positive bacteria showed a reduction of 3.49 log10. Fungi were reduced by 3.89 log10. These results were further validated using a live/dead assay. MALDI-ToF (matrix-assisted laser-desorption-ionization time-of-flight)-based determination was used for a diversified overview. The results demonstrated that Gram-negative bacteria were strongly reduced. Interestingly, Gram-positive bacteria and fungi were reduced by nearly equal amounts, but could still recover from PTW treatment. MALDI-ToF mainly identified Pseudomonas spp. and groups of Bacillus on the tested lettuce. These results indicate that the PTW treatment could efficiently achieve a ubiquitous, spectrum-wide reduction of microbial life.
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- Hauke Winter
- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; (H.W.); (R.W.); (J.E.)
- Institute of Microbiology, Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany;
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- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; (H.W.); (R.W.); (J.E.)
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- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; (H.W.); (R.W.); (J.E.)
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- Institute of Microbiology, Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany;
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- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; (H.W.); (R.W.); (J.E.)
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Al Naggar Y, Wubet T. Chronic exposure to pesticides disrupts the bacterial and fungal co-existence and the cross-kingdom network characteristics of honey bee gut microbiome. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 906:167530. [PMID: 37832690 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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Gut microbiome communities have a significant impact on bee health and disease and have been shown to be shaped by a variety of factors, including exposure to pesticides and inhive chemicals. However, it is unknown whether pesticide exposure affects the coexistence and cross-kingdom network parameters of bee gut microbiome communities because microbes may compete in the gut environment under different stressors. Therefore, we conducted additional analysis of the microbiome data from our previous study in which we discovered that exposure to two novel insecticides flupyradifurone (FPF) and sulfoxaflor (Sulf) or/and a fungicide, azoxystrobin (Azoxy) caused dysbiosis of bee gut microbiota that was associated with an increase in the relative abundance of opportunistic pathogens such as Serratia marcescens. We investigated for the first time the potential cross-kingdom fungal-bacterial interactions using co-occurrence pattern correlation and network analysis. We discovered that exposure to FPF or Sulf alone or in combination with Azoxy fungicide influenced the co-existence patterns of fungal and bacterial communities. Significant differences in degree centrality, closeness centrality, and eigenvector centrality distribution indices were also found in single and double-treatment groups compared to controls. The effects of FPF and Sulf alone on cross-kingdom parameters (bacterial to fungal node ratio, degree of centrality, closeness centrality, and eigenvector centrality) were distinct, but this was reversed when they were combined with Azoxy fungicide. The fungal and bacterial hub taxa identified differed, with only a few shared hubs across treatments, suggesting microbial cross-kingdom networks may be disrupted differently under different stressors. Our findings add to our understanding of pesticide effects on the bee gut microbiome and bee health in general, while also emphasizing the importance of cross-kingdom network analysis in future microbiome research.
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- Yahya Al Naggar
- Department of Community Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt.
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- Department of Community Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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Winter H, Wagner R, Yao Y, Ehlbeck J, Schnabel U. Influence of plasma-treated air on surface microbial communities on freshly harvested lettuce. Curr Res Food Sci 2023; 7:100649. [PMID: 38115898 PMCID: PMC10728334 DOI: 10.1016/j.crfs.2023.100649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Plant-based foods like lettuce are an important part of the human diet and worldwide industry. On a global scale, the number of food-associated illnesses increased in the last decades. Conventional lettuce sanitation methods include cleaning either with tap or chloritized water. Beside these water-consuming strategies, physical plasma is an innovative and effective possibility for food sanitation. Recent studies with plasma-treated water showed an effective reduction of the microbial load. Plasma-processed air (PPA) is another great opportunity to reduce the microbial load and save water. To test the efficiency of PPA, the surface microbiome of treated lettuce was analyzed via proliferation assays with special agars, live/dead assays and tests for respiratory activity of the microorganisms. PPA showed a reduction of the colony forming units (CFU/mL) on all tested microbial groups (Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, yeasts and molds). These results were supported by the live/dead assay. For further insights, the PPA-ingredients were detected with Fourier Transformation Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), which revealed NO2, NO and N2O5 as the main reactive species in the PPA. In the future, PPA could be an outstanding, on-demand sanitation step for higher food safety standards, especially in situations where humidity and high temperature should be avoided.
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- Hauke Winter
- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Microbiology, University of Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 8, 17489, Greifswald, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489, Greifswald, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Food & Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AD, UK
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- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489, Greifswald, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Strasse 2, 17489, Greifswald, Germany
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Zhang X, Cui L, Liu S, Li J, Wu Y, Ren Y, Huang X. Seasonal dynamics of bacterial community and co-occurrence with eukaryotic phytoplankton in the Pearl River Estuary. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 192:106193. [PMID: 37832281 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2023] [Revised: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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In this study, we investigated the taxonomic composition of the bacteria and phytoplankton communities in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) through Illumina sequencing of the V3-V4 region of the 16 S rRNA gene. Furthermore, their relationships as well as recorded environmental variables were explored by co-occurrence networks. Bacterial community composition was different in two size fractions, as well as along the salinity gradient across two seasons. Free-living (FL) communities were dominated by pico-sized Cyanobacteria (Synechococcus CC9902) while Exiguobacterium, Halomonas and Pseudomonas were predominantly associated with particle-associated (PA) lifestyle, and Cyanobium PCC-6307 exhibited seasonal shifts in lifestyles in different seasons. In wet season, bacterial community composition was characterized by abundance of Cyanobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Bacteroidetes, which were tightly linked with high riverine inflow. While in dry season, Proteobacteria increased in prevalence, especially for Psychrobacter, NOR5/OM60 clade and Pseudomonas, which were thrived in lower water temperature and higher salinity. Moreover, we discovered that differences between PA and FL composition were more significant in the wet season than in the dry season, which may be due to better nutritional conditions of particles (indicated by POC%) in the wet season and then attract more diverse PA populations. Based on the analysis of plastidial 16 S rRNA genes, abundant small-sized mixotrophic phytoplankton (Dinophyceae, Euglenida and Haptophyta) were identified in the PRE. The complexity of co-occurrence network increased from FL to PA fractions in both seasons, which suggested that suspended particles can provide ecological niches for particle-associated colonizers contributing to the maintenance of a more stable community structure. In addition, the majority of phytoplankton species exhibited positive co-occurrences with both other phytoplankton species and bacterial counterparts, indicating the mutual cooperation between phytoplankton assemblages and specific bacterial populations e likely benefited from phytoplankton-derived organic compounds. This study enhances our understanding of the seasonal and spatial dynamics of bacterial communities and their potential relationship with phytoplankton assembly in estuarine waters.
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- Xia Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou, 510301, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou, 510301, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou, 510301, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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Pan X, Raaijmakers JM, Carrión VJ. Importance of Bacteroidetes in host-microbe interactions and ecosystem functioning. Trends Microbiol 2023; 31:959-971. [PMID: 37173204 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Bacteroidetes are prevalent in soil ecosystems and are associated with various eukaryotic hosts, including plants, animals, and humans. The ubiquity and diversity of Bacteroidetes exemplify their impressive versatility in niche adaptation and genomic plasticity. Over the past decade, a wealth of knowledge has been obtained on the metabolic functions of clinically relevant Bacteroidetes, but much less attention has been given to Bacteroidetes living in close association with plants. To improve our understanding of the functional roles of Bacteroidetes for plants and other hosts, we review the current knowledge of their taxonomy and ecology, in particular their roles in nutrient cycling and host fitness. We highlight their environmental distribution, stress resilience, genomic diversity, and functional importance in diverse ecosystems, including, but not limited to, plant-associated microbiomes.
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- Xinya Pan
- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708, PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333, BE, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708, PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333, BE, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708, PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333, BE, Leiden, The Netherlands; Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain; Department of Microbiology and Plant Protection, Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea "La Mayora", IHSM-UMA-CSIC, Málaga, Spain.
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Stouvenakers G, Massart S, Jijakli MH. First Study Case of Microbial Biocontrol Agents Isolated from Aquaponics Through the Mining of High-Throughput Sequencing Data to Control Pythium aphanidermatum on Lettuce. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2023; 86:1107-1119. [PMID: 36334118 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-022-02126-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Aquaponics is defined as a sustainable and integrated system that combines fish aquaculture and hydroponic plant production in the same recirculated water loop. A recent study using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies highlighted that microbial communities from an aquaponic system could control one of the most problematic pathogens in soilless lettuce culture, namely, Pythium aphanidermatum. Therefore, this study aims at isolating the microorganisms responsible for this biocontrol action. Based on the most promising genera identified by HTS, an innovative strategy for isolating and testing original biocontrol agents from aquaponic water was designed to control P. aphanidermatum. Eighty-two bacterial strains and 18 fungal strains were isolated, identified by Sanger sequencing, and screened in vivo to control damping-off of lettuce seeds caused by P. aphanidermatum. Out of these 100 isolates, the eight most efficacious ones were selected and further tested individually to control root rot disease caused by the same pathogen at a later stage of lettuce growth. Strains SHb30 (Sphingobium xenophagum), G2 (Aspergillus flavus), and Chito13 (Mycolicibacterium fortuitum) decreased seed damping-off at a better rate than a propamocarb fungicide and a Pseudomonas chlororaphis registered biocontrol agent did. In root rot bioassays, lettuce mortality was prevented by applying strains G2 and Chito13, which were at least as efficacious as the fungicide or biopesticide controls. Lettuce disease symptoms and mortality were eradicated by strain SHb30 in the first bioassay, but not in the second one. These results show that aquaponic systems are promising sources of original biocontrol agents, and that HTS-guided strategies could represent interesting approaches to identify new biocontrol agents.
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- G Stouvenakers
- Laboratory of Integrated and Urban Phytopathology, University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Integrated and Urban Phytopathology, University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Integrated and Urban Phytopathology, University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium
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Chen Y, Xia SY, Ru FX, Feng JJ, Tao J, Wei ZY, Li X, Qian C, Lin Q, Chen JH. Gastric juice microbiota in pediatric chronic gastritis that clinically tested positive and negative for Helicobacter pylori. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1112709. [PMID: 37180270 PMCID: PMC10168005 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1112709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023] Open
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Purpose Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection is an identified risk factor for pediatric chronic gastritis (PCG), but its impact on gastric juice microbiota (GJM) remains to be further elucidated in PCG. This study aimed to analyze and compare the microbial communities and microbial interactive networks of GJM in PCG that clinically tested positive and negative for HP (HP+ and HP-, respectively). Methods A total of 45 PCG patients aged from 6 to 16 years were recruited, including 20 HP+ and 25 HP- patients tested by culture and rapid urease test. Gastric juice samples were collected from these PCG patients and subjected to high-throughput amplicon sequencing and subsequent analysis of 16S rRNA genes. Results While no significant change in alpha diversity, significant differences in beta diversity were observed between HP+ and HP- PCG. At the genus level, Streptococcus, Helicobacter, and Granulicatella were significantly enriched in HP+ PCG, whereas Campylobacter and Absconditabacteriales (SR1) were significantly enriched in HP- PCG. Network analysis showed that Streptococcus was the only genus positively correlated with Helicobacter (r = 0.497) in the GJM network of overall PCG. Moreover, compared to HP- PCG, HP+ PCG showed a reduction in microbial network connectivity in GJM. Netshift analysis identified driver microbes including Streptococcus and other four genera, which substantially contributed to the GJM network transition from HP- PCG to HP+ PCG. Furthermore, Predicted GJM function analysis indicated up-regulated pathways related to the metabolism of nucleotides, carbohydrates, and L-Lysine, the urea cycle, as well as endotoxin peptidoglycan biosynthesis and maturation in HP+ PCG. Conclusion GJM in HP+ PCG exhibited dramatically altered beta diversity, taxonomic structure, and function, with reduced microbial network connectivity, which could be involved in the disease etiology.
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- Ying Chen
- Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Children’s Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Laboratory Animal Center, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Children’s Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
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Rapeseed Domestication Affects the Diversity of Rhizosphere Microbiota. Microorganisms 2023; 11:microorganisms11030724. [PMID: 36985297 PMCID: PMC10056747 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11030724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023] Open
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Rhizosphere microbiota is important for plant growth and health. Domestication is a process to select suitable plants to satisfy the needs of humans, which may have great impacts on the interaction between the host and its rhizosphere microbiota. Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is an important oilseed crop derived from the hybridization between Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea ~7500 years ago. However, variations in rhizosphere microbiota along with rapeseed domestication remain poorly understood. Here, we characterized the composition and structure of the rhizosphere microbiota among diverse rapeseed accessions, including ten B. napus, two B. rapa, and three B. oleracea accessions through bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing. B. napus exhibited a higher Shannon index and different bacterial relative abundance compared with its wild relatives in rhizosphere microbiota. Moreover, artificial synthetic B. napus lines G3D001 and No.2127 showed significantly different rhizosphere microbiota diversity and composition from other B. napus accessions and their ancestors. The core rhizosphere microbiota of B. napus and its wild relatives was also described. FAPROTAX annotation predicted that the synthetic B. napus lines had more abundant pathways related to nitrogen metabolism, and the co-occurrence network results demonstrated that Rhodoplanes acted as hub nodes to promote nitrogen metabolism in the synthetic B. napus lines. This study provides new insights into the impacts of rapeseed domestication on the diversity and community structure of rhizosphere microbiota, which may highlight the contribution of rhizosphere microbiota to plant health.
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Astragalus-cultivated soil was a suitable bed soil for nurturing Angelica sinensis seedlings from the rhizosphere microbiome perspective. Sci Rep 2023; 13:3388. [PMID: 36854968 PMCID: PMC9974959 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30549-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels is an important Chinese medicinal plant. A. sinensis seedlings are grown on an undisturbed alpine meadow soil to ensure the high-quality seedlings, but these soils are disappearing year after year. Thus, selecting a suitable bed soil for A. sinensis seedlings could ensure their long-term sustainability. Using HiSeq sequencing of 16S and 18S marker genes, we investigated the rhizosphere bacterial and fungal microbiotas of the seedlings grown in wheat, astragalus, potato, and angelica-cultivated soils at a geo-authentic habitat. Co-occurrence network analysis, canonical correspondence analysis, Mantel test, and Envfit test were used to examine the relationship between the microbiotas and the surrounding factors. Astragalus-cultivated soils exhibited the following properties: the highest plant weight, the highest neighborhood connectivity in the bacterial network, the highest ratio of positive/negative relationship in both bacterial and fungal networks, the highest relative abundance of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the ectomycorrhizal fungi, the lowest relative abundance of Rhizoctonia solani, the suitable soil pH, and the close relationship between the rhizosphere microbiotas and the ecological factors. Moreover, each growth stage has its own major drivers in all crop-cultivated soils. Climate temperature and soil pH at 56 days after planting, precipitation at 98 days, and plant weight as well as microbial biomass C and N at 129 days were the major drivers of the bacterial and fungal microbiotas. Overall, the astragalus-cultivated soil was a suitable bed soil for nurturing A. sinensis seedlings to replace the undisturbed alpine meadow soils.
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Wang L, Liu J, Zhang M, Wu T, Chai B. Ecological Processes of Bacterial and Fungal Communities Associated with Typha orientalis Roots in Wetlands Were Distinct during Plant Development. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0505122. [PMID: 36688664 PMCID: PMC9927475 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.05051-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Root-associated microbiomes are essential for the ecological function of the root system. However, their assembly mechanisms in wetland are poorly understood. In this study, we explored and compared the ecological processes of bacterial and fungal communities in water, bulk soil, rhizosphere soil, and root endosphere niches for 3 developmental stages of Typha orientalis at different wetland sites, and assessed the potential functions of root endosphere microbiomes with function prediction. Our findings suggest that the microbial diversity, composition, and interaction networks along the water-soil-plant continuum are shaped predominantly by compartment niche and developmental stage, rather than by wetland site. Source tracking analysis indicated that T. orientalis' root endosphere is derived primarily from the rhizosphere soil (bacteria 39.9%, fungi 27.3%) and water (bacteria 18.9%, fungi 19.1%) niches. In addition, we found that the assembly of bacterial communities is driven primarily by deterministic processes and fungal communities by stochastic processes. The interaction network among microbes varies at different developmental stages of T. orientalis, and is accompanied by changes in microbial keystone taxa. The functional prediction data supports the distribution pattern of the bacterial and fungal microbiomes, which have different ecological roles at different plant developmental stages, where more beneficial bacterial taxa are observed in the root endosphere in the early stages, but more saprophytic fungi in the late stages. Our findings provide empirical evidence for the assembly, sources, interactions, and potential functions of wetland plant root microbial communities and have significant implications for the future applications of plant microbiomes in the wetland ecosystem. IMPORTANCE Our findings provide empirical evidence for the assembly, sources, interactions, and potential functions of wetland plant root microbial communities, and have significant implications for the future applications of plant microbiomes in the wetland ecosystem.
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- Lixiao Wang
- Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Shanxi Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration for Loess Plateau, Taiyuan, China
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- Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Shanxi Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration for Loess Plateau, Taiyuan, China
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- Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Shanxi Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration for Loess Plateau, Taiyuan, China
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- Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
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- Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Shanxi Key Laboratory of Ecological Restoration for Loess Plateau, Taiyuan, China
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Zhang YL, Guo XJ, Huang X, Guo RJ, Lu XH, Li SD, Zhang H. The Co-Association of Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas with Specific Resistant Cucumber against Fusarium Wilt Disease. BIOLOGY 2023; 12:biology12020143. [PMID: 36829422 PMCID: PMC9952826 DOI: 10.3390/biology12020143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The root microbiota contributes to the plant's defense against stresses and pathogens. However, the co-association pattern of functional bacteria that improves plant resistance has not been interpreted clearly. Using Illumina high-throughput sequencing technology, the root bacterial community profiles of six cucumber cultivars with different resistance in response to the causative agent of cucumber Fusarium wilt (CFW), Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum (Foc), were analyzed. The principal coordinate analysis indicated that the interactions of the cultivars and pathogens drove the cucumber root bacterial communities (p = 0.001). The resistance-specific differential genera across the cultivars were identified, including Massilia in the resistant cultivars, unclassified Enterobacteriaceae in resistant CL11 and JY409, Pseudomonas in JY409, Cronobacter in moderately resistant ZN106, and unclassified Rhizobiaceae and Streptomyces in susceptible ZN6. The predominant root bacterium Massilia accounted for the relative abundance of up to 28.08-61.55%, but dramatically declined to 9.36% in Foc-inoculated susceptible ZN6. Pseudomonas ASV103 and ASV48 of Pseudomonadaceae and Cronobacter ASV162 of Enterobacteriaceae were consistently differential across the cultivars at the phylum, genus, and ASV levels. Using the culture-based method, antagonistic strains of Enterobacteriaceae with a high proportion of 51% were isolated. Furthermore, the bacterial complexes of Pantoea dispersa E318 + Pseudomonas koreensis Ps213 and Cronobacter spp. C1 + C7 reduced the disease index of CFW by 77.2% and 60.0% in the pot experiment, respectively. This study reveals the co-association of specific root bacteria with host plants and reveals insight into the suppressing mechanism of resistant cultivars against CFW disease by regulating the root microbiota.
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- Yu-Lu Zhang
- Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
- College of Plant Protection, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
- Correspondence:
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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Wang L, Cheng Y, Hu X, Huang Y. Analysis of bacterial diversity and functional differences of Jiang-flavored Daqu produced in different seasons. Front Nutr 2023; 9:1078132. [PMID: 36687670 PMCID: PMC9845603 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.1078132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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High-temperature Daqu is an important saccharifying fermenting starter for brewing Jiang-flavored Baijiu. This paper analyzed the diversity characteristics of bacterial communities of Jiang-flavored Daqu (JFDQ) with seasonal changes through Illumina HiSeq sequencing and multivariate statistical methods. Results showed that 21 phyla, 529 genera, and 47 core bacterial genera were identified from the 48 composite samples. Among them, eight functional genera were only found in the summer-produced Daqu (Propionigenium, etc.). Pantoea, Bacillus, Lentibacillus, and Oceanobacillus, respectively, served as the representative functional bacterial genera of the four seasons. Functional prediction analysis showed that Amino acid metabolism Carbohydrate metabolism, Lipid metabolism, Metabolism of cofactors and vitamins, and Nucleotide metabolism (relative abundance > 1%) were the most critical microbial functions in JFDQ, and these key enzymes involved in acetoin biosynthesis, and acetyl-CoA biosynthesis were more abundant in the summer than in the winter. The functional microorganisms community in this paper would provide valuable suggestions about the seasonal production of JFDQ, guiding the Baijiu brewing processes.
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- Lamei Wang
- Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering and Biological Pharmacy of Guizhou Province, College of Liquor and Food Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering and Biological Pharmacy of Guizhou Province, College of Liquor and Food Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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- Guizhou Moutai Brewery (Group) Xijiu Co., Ltd., Xishui, Guizhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering and Biological Pharmacy of Guizhou Province, College of Liquor and Food Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
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Dumack K, Feng K, Flues S, Sapp M, Schreiter S, Grosch R, Rose LE, Deng Y, Smalla K, Bonkowski M. What Drives the Assembly of Plant-associated Protist Microbiomes? Investigating the Effects of Crop Species, Soil Type and Bacterial Microbiomes. Protist 2022; 173:125913. [PMID: 36257252 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2022.125913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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In a field experiment we investigated the influence of the environmental filters soil type (i.e. three contrasting soils) and plant species (i.e. lettuce and potato) identity on rhizosphere community assembly of Cercozoa, a dominant group of mostly bacterivorous soil protists. Plant species (14%) and rhizosphere origin (vs bulk soil) with 13%, together explained four times more variation in cercozoan beta diversity than the three soil types (7% explained variation). Our results clearly confirm the existence of plant species-specific protist communities. Network analyses of bacteria-Cercozoa rhizosphere communities identified scale-free small world topologies, indicating mechanisms of self-organization. While the assembly of rhizosphere bacterial communities is bottom-up controlled through the resource supply from root (secondary) metabolites, our results support the hypothesis that the net effect may depend on the strength of top-down control by protist grazers. Since grazing of protists has a strong impact on the composition and functioning of bacteria communities, protists expand the repertoire of plant genes by functional traits, and should be considered as 'protist microbiomes' in analogy to 'bacterial microbiomes'.
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- Kenneth Dumack
- University of Cologne, Institute of Zoology, Terrestrial Ecology, Zülpicher Str. 47b, 50674 Köln, Germany; Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, Germany.
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- University of Cologne, Institute of Zoology, Terrestrial Ecology, Zülpicher Str. 47b, 50674 Köln, Germany; CAS Key Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- University of Cologne, Institute of Zoology, Terrestrial Ecology, Zülpicher Str. 47b, 50674 Köln, Germany; Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich Heine University, Population Genetics, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Messeweg 11-12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH (UFZ), Deptartment Soil System Science, Theodor-Lieser-Str.4, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Plant-Microbe Systems, Theodor-Echtermeyer-Weg 1, 14979 Großbeeren, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich Heine University, Population Genetics, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Messeweg 11-12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Institute of Zoology, Terrestrial Ecology, Zülpicher Str. 47b, 50674 Köln, Germany; Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, Germany
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Sun Y, Huang Z, Chen S, Yang D, Lin X, Liu W, Yang S. Higher-Quality Pumpkin Cultivars Need to Recruit More Abundant Soil Microbes in Rhizospheres. Microorganisms 2022; 10:2219. [PMID: 36363811 PMCID: PMC9698040 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10112219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Revised: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 08/17/2023] Open
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Two different qualities of pumpkin, cultivars G1519 and G1511, were grown in the same environment under identical management. However, their qualities, such as the contents of total soluble solids, starch, protein, and vitamin C, were significantly different. Do rhizospheric microbes contribute to pumpkin quality? To answer this question, this study investigated the soil microbial compositions in the rhizospheres of different quality pumpkin cultivars to determine the differences in these soil microbial compositions and thus determine how soil microbes may affect pumpkin quality. Firstly, a randomized complete block design with two pumpkin cultivars and three replications was performed in this study. The soil microbial compositions and structures in the rhizospheres of the two pumpkin cultivars were analyzed using a high-throughput sequencing technique. In comparison with the low-quality pumpkin cultivar (G1519), higher microbial diversity and richness could be found in the rhizospheres of the high-quality pumpkin cultivar (G1511). The results showed that there were significant differences in the soil bacterial and fungal community compositions in the rhizospheres of the high- and low-quality pumpkin cultivars. Although the compositions and proportions of microorganisms were similar in the rhizospheres of the two pumpkin cultivars, the proportions of Basidiomycota and Micropsalliota in the G1519 rhizosphere were much higher than those in the G1511 rhizosphere. Furthermore, the fungal phylum and genus Rozellomycota and Unclassified_p__Rozellomycota were unique in the rhizosphere of the high-quality pumpkin cultivar (G1511). All the above results indicate that soil microbes were enriched differentially in the rhizospheres of the low- and high-quality pumpkin cultivars. In other words, more abundant soil microbes were recruited in the rhizosphere of the high-quality pumpkin cultivar as compared to that of the low-quality cultivar. Rozellomycota and Unclassified_p__Rozellomycota may be functional microorganisms relating to pumpkin quality.
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- Yan Sun
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Products Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education, Agricultural College, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Products Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education, Agricultural College, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Products Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education, Agricultural College, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Products Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education, Agricultural College, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Products Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education, Agricultural College, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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- Vegetable Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning 530007, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Products Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education, Agricultural College, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
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Wang M, Sun H, Xu Z. Analysis of Blueberry Plant Rhizosphere Bacterial Diversity and Selection of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria. Curr Microbiol 2022; 79:331. [DOI: 10.1007/s00284-022-03031-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Nerva L, Sandrini M, Moffa L, Velasco R, Balestrini R, Chitarra W. Breeding toward improved ecological plant-microbiome interactions. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 27:1134-1143. [PMID: 35803843 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Revised: 06/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Domestication processes, amplified by breeding programs, have allowed the selection of more productive genotypes and more suitable crop lines capable of coping with the changing climate. Notwithstanding these advancements, the impact of plant breeding on the ecology of plant-microbiome interactions has not been adequately considered yet. This includes the possible exploitation of beneficial plant-microbe interactions to develop crops with improved performance and better adaptability to any environmental scenario. Here we discuss the exploitation of customized synthetic microbial communities in agricultural systems to develop more sustainable breeding strategies based on the implementation of multiple interactions between plants and their beneficial associated microorganisms.
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- Luca Nerva
- Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-VE), Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano, (TV), Italy; National Research Council of Italy - Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Strada delle Cacce, 73, 10135 Torino (TO), Italy
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- Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-VE), Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano, (TV), Italy; University of Udine, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100, Udine, (UD), Italy
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- Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-VE), Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano, (TV), Italy; University of Udine, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100, Udine, (UD), Italy
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- Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-VE), Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano, (TV), Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy - Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Strada delle Cacce, 73, 10135 Torino (TO), Italy.
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- Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-VE), Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano, (TV), Italy; National Research Council of Italy - Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Strada delle Cacce, 73, 10135 Torino (TO), Italy
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Riva V, Patania G, Riva F, Vergani L, Crotti E, Mapelli F. Acinetobacter baylyi Strain BD413 Can Acquire an Antibiotic Resistance Gene by Natural Transformation on Lettuce Phylloplane and Enter the Endosphere. Antibiotics (Basel) 2022; 11:antibiotics11091231. [PMID: 36140010 PMCID: PMC9495178 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11091231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 09/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Antibiotic resistance spread must be considered in a holistic framework which comprises the agri-food ecosystems, where plants can be considered a bridge connecting water and soil habitats with the human microbiome. However, the study of horizontal gene transfer events within the plant microbiome is still overlooked. Here, the environmental strain Acinetobacter baylyi BD413 was used to study the acquisition of extracellular DNA (exDNA) carrying an antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) on lettuce phylloplane, performing experiments at conditions (i.e., plasmid quantities) mimicking those that can be found in a water reuse scenario. Moreover, we assessed how the presence of a surfactant, a co-formulant widely used in agriculture, affected exDNA entry in bacteria and plant tissues, besides the penetration and survival of bacteria into the leaf endosphere. Natural transformation frequency in planta was comparable to that occurring under optimal conditions (i.e., temperature, nutrient provision, and absence of microbial competitors), representing an entrance pathway of ARGs into an epiphytic bacterium able to penetrate the endosphere of a leafy vegetable. The presence of the surfactant determined a higher presence of culturable transformant cells in the leaf tissues but did not significantly increase exDNA entry in A. baylyi BD413 cells and lettuce leaves. More research on HGT (Horizontal Gene Transfer) mechanisms in planta should be performed to obtain experimental data on produce safety in terms of antibiotic resistance.
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Diwan D, Rashid MM, Vaishnav A. Current understanding of plant-microbe interaction through the lenses of multi-omics approaches and their benefits in sustainable agriculture. Microbiol Res 2022; 265:127180. [PMID: 36126490 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2022.127180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The success of sustainable agricultural practices has now become heavily dependent on the interactions between crop plants and their associated microbiome. Continuous advancement in high throughput sequencing platforms, omics-based approaches, and gene editing technologies has remarkably accelerated this area of research. It has enabled us to characterize the interactions of plants with associated microbial communities more comprehensively and accurately. Furthermore, the genomic and post-genomic era has significantly refined our perspective toward the complex mechanisms involved in those interactions, opening new avenues for efficiently deploying the knowledge in developing sustainable agricultural practices. This review focuses on our fundamental understanding of plant-microbe interactions and the contribution of existing multi-omics approaches, including those under active development and their tremendous success in unraveling different aspects of the complex network between plant hosts and microbes. In addition, we have also discussed the importance of sustainable and eco-friendly agriculture and the associated outstanding challenges ahead.
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- Deepti Diwan
- Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar 813210, India; Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh 281121, India; Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, Zürich CH-8008, Switzerland; Plant-Soil Interaction Group, Agroscope (Reckenholz), Reckenholzstrasse 191, Zürich 8046, Switzerland
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Shi Y, Xu M, Zhao Y, Cheng L, Chu H. Soil pH Determines the Spatial Distribution, Assembly Processes, and Co-existence Networks of Microeukaryotic Community in Wheat Fields of the North China Plain. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:911116. [PMID: 35958140 PMCID: PMC9358722 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.911116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Soil microeukaryotes play a pivotal role in soil nutrient cycling and crop growth in agroecosystems. However, knowledge of microeukaryotic community distribution patterns, assembly processes, and co-existence networks is greatly limited. Here, microbial eukaryotes in bulk and rhizosphere soils of the North China Plain were investigated. The results showed that soil pH was the driving factor for the microeukaryotic community composition in the bulk and rhizosphere soils. The soil microeukaryotic community could significantly differ between alkaline and acidic soils. The results indicated that the soil pH had a stronger effect than niche differences on community composition. Partial Mantel tests showed that soil pH and spatial distance had similar effects on the microeukaryotic community composition in the bulk soil. However, in the rhizosphere soil, spatial distance had a stronger effect than soil pH. Infer Community Assembly Mechanisms by Phylogenetic bin-based null model (iCAMP) analysis revealed that drift was the most important process driving microeukaryotic community assembly, with an average relative importance of 37.4–71.1%. Dispersal limitation displayed slightly greater importance in alkaline rhizosphere than in alkaline bulk soils. Meanwhile, the opposite trend was observed in acidic soils. In addition, the contribution of each assembly process to each iCAMP lineage “bin” varied according to the acidic or alkaline conditions of the soil and the niche environment. High proportions of positive links were found within the four ecological networks. Alkaline soil networks, especially the alkaline bulk soil network, showed greater complexity than the acidic soil networks. Natural connectivity analysis revealed that the rhizosphere community had a greater stability than the bulk soil community in alkaline soil. This study provides a foundation for understanding the potential roles of microbial eukaryotes in agricultural soil ecosystem functioning.
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- Yu Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Haiyan Chu,
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Abdelfattah A, Tack AJM, Wasserman B, Liu J, Berg G, Norelli J, Droby S, Wisniewski M. Evidence for host-microbiome co-evolution in apple. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 234:2088-2100. [PMID: 34823272 PMCID: PMC9299473 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Plants evolved in association with a diverse community of microorganisms. The effect of plant phylogeny and domestication on host-microbiome co-evolutionary dynamics are poorly understood. Here we examined the effect of domestication and plant lineage on the composition of the endophytic microbiome of 11 Malus species, representing three major groups: domesticated apple (M. domestica), wild apple progenitors, and wild Malus species. The endophytic community of M. domestica and its wild progenitors showed higher microbial diversity and abundance than wild Malus species. Heirloom and modern cultivars harbored a distinct community composition, though the difference was not significant. A community-wide Bayesian model revealed that the endophytic microbiome of domesticated apple is an admixture of its wild progenitors, with clear evidence for microbiome introgression, especially for the bacterial community. We observed a significant correlation between the evolutionary distance of Malus species and their microbiome. This study supports co-evolution between Malus species and their microbiome during domestication. This finding has major implications for future breeding programs and our understanding of the evolution of plants and their microbiomes.
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- Ahmed Abdelfattah
- Institute of Environmental BiotechnologyGraz University of TechnologyPetersgasse 12Graz8010Austria
- Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB)Max‐Eyth Allee 10014469PotsdamGermany
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant SciencesStockholm UniversitySvante Arrhenius väg 20AStockholmSE‐106 91Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental BiotechnologyGraz University of TechnologyPetersgasse 12Graz8010Austria
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Economic Plant BiotechnologyCollege of Landscape Architecture and Life SciencesChongqing University of Arts and SciencesYongchuanChongquing402160China
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- Institute of Environmental BiotechnologyGraz University of TechnologyPetersgasse 12Graz8010Austria
- Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB)Max‐Eyth Allee 10014469PotsdamGermany
- Institute for Biochemistry and BiologyUniversity of Postdam14476Potsdam OT GolmGermany
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- Appalachian Fruit Research StationUnited States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research ServiceKearneysvilleWV25430USA
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- Department of Postharvest ScienceAgricultural Research OrganizationThe Volcani InstitutePO Box 15159Rishon LeZion7505101Israel
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- Department of Biological SciencesVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University220 Ag Quad LnBlacksburgVA24061USA
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Zheng W, Zhu Z, Ying J, Long G, Chen B, Peng K, Li F, Zhao H, Jiang M. The Effects of Helicobacter pylori Infection on Gastric Microbiota in Children With Duodenal Ulcer. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:853184. [PMID: 35547124 PMCID: PMC9082302 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.853184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is the main cause of chronic gastritis and duodenal ulcer in children. Little is known about the effect of H. pylori on gastric microbiota in children with duodenal ulcer. This study is aimed at the characteristics of gastric microbiota in children with duodenal ulcer on H. pylori infection. Methods We studied 23 children diagnosed with duodenal ulcer by gastric endoscopy because of the gastrointestinal symptoms, 15 children were diagnosed with H. pylori infection, while 8 children were without H. pylori infection. Endoscopic mucosal biopsy samples were obtained for DNA extraction. Microbiomes were analyzed by 16S rRNA profiling and microbial functions were predicted using the software Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States (PICRUSt). Results Bacterial richness and diversity of gastric microbiota in duodenal ulcer with H. pylori-positive were lower than those negative. The gastric microbiota in H. pylori-positive group significantly reduced proportions of six phyla and fifteen genera; only Helicobacter taxa were more abundant in H. pylori-positive group. Co-expression network analysis showed a more complex network of interactions in the H. pylori-positive group than that in the H. pylori-negative group. For the predicted functions, lower abundance in the pathways of carbohydrate metabolism, signal transduction, amino acid metabolism, and lipid metabolism were found in H. pylori-positive group than the H. pylori-negative group. H. pylori colonization reduces a microbial community with genotoxic potential in the gastric mucosa of children with duodenal ulcer. Conclusions The presence of H. pylori significantly influences gastric microbiota and results in a lower abundance of multiple taxonomic levels in children with duodenal ulcer. Children with duodenal ulcer exhibit a dysbiotic microbial community with genotoxic potential, which is distinct from that of children with H. pylori infection. Clinical Trial Registration [http://www.chictr.org.cn], identifier [ChiCTR1800015190].
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- Wei Zheng
- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Endoscopy Center and Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Endoscopy Center and Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Endoscopy Center and Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China.,Endoscopy Center and Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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Malla MA, Dubey A, Raj A, Kumar A, Upadhyay N, Yadav S. Emerging frontiers in microbe-mediated pesticide remediation: Unveiling role of omics and In silico approaches in engineered environment. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 299:118851. [PMID: 35085655 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.118851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Revised: 01/09/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The overuse of pesticides for augmenting agriculture productivity always comes at the cost of environment, biodiversity, and human health and has put the land, water, and environmental footprints under severe threat throughout the globe. Underpinning and maximizing the microbiome functions in pesticide-contaminated environments has become a prerequisite for a sustainable environment and resilient agriculture. It is imperative to elucidate the metabolic network of the microbial communities and environmental variables at the contaminated site to predict the best strategy for remediation and soil microbe-pesticide interactions. High throughput next-generation sequencing and in silico analysis allow us to identify and discern the members and characteristics of core microbiomes at the contaminated site. Integration of modern high throughput multi-omics investigations and informatics pipelines provide novel approaches and pathways to capitalize on the core microbiomes for enhancing environmental functioning and mitigation. The role of eco-genomics tools in visualising the microbial network, taxonomy, functional potential, and environmental variables in contaminated habitats is discussed in this review. The integrated role of the potential microbe identification as individual or consortia, mechanistic approach for pesticide degradation, identification of responsible enzymes/genes, and in silico approach is emphasized for the prospects of the area.
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- Muneer Ahmad Malla
- Department of Zoology, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Central University), Sagar, 470003, MP, India; Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Central University), Sagar, 470003, MP, India
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- Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Central University), Sagar, 470003, MP, India
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- Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Central University), Sagar, 470003, MP, India
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- Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Central University), Sagar, 470003, MP, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Central University), Sagar, 470003, MP, India
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- Department of Zoology, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Central University), Sagar, 470003, MP, India
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Romeralo C, Martín-García J, Martínez-Álvarez P, Muñoz-Adalia EJ, Gonçalves DR, Torres E, Witzell J, Diez JJ. Pine species determine fungal microbiome composition in a common garden experiment. FUNGAL ECOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Zhao S, Niu C, Xing X, Fan L, Zheng F, Liu C, Wang J, Li Q. Revealing the changes of microbiota structure and function in broad bean paste mediated by sunlight and ventilation. Lebensm Wiss Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2022.113152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Berg G, Cernava T. The plant microbiota signature of the Anthropocene as a challenge for microbiome research. MICROBIOME 2022; 10:54. [PMID: 35346369 PMCID: PMC8959079 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01224-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND One promise of the recently presented microbiome definition suggested that, in combination with unifying concepts and standards, microbiome research could be important for solving new challenges associated with anthropogenic-driven changes in various microbiota. With this commentary we want to further elaborate this suggestion, because we noticed specific signatures in microbiota affected by the Anthropocene. RESULTS Here, we discuss this based on a review of available literature and our own research targeting exemplarily the plant microbiome. It is not only crucial for plants themselves but also linked to planetary health. We suggest that different human activities are commonly linked to a shift of diversity and evenness of the plant microbiota, which is also characterized by a decrease of host specificity, and an increase of r-strategic microbes, pathogens, and hypermutators. The resistome, anchored in the microbiome, follows this shift by an increase of specific antimicrobial resistance (AMR) mechanisms as well as an increase of plasmid-associated resistance genes. This typical microbiome signature of the Anthropocene is often associated with dysbiosis and loss of resilience, and leads to frequent pathogen outbreaks. Although several of these observations are already confirmed by meta-studies, this issue requires more attention in upcoming microbiome studies. CONCLUSIONS Our commentary aims to inspire holistic studies for the development of solutions to restore and save microbial diversity for ecosystem functioning as well as the closely connected planetary health. Video abstract.
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- Gabriele Berg
- Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 12, 8010, Graz, Austria.
- Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam, Max-Eyth-Allee 100, 14469, Potsdam, Germany.
- Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.
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- Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 12, 8010, Graz, Austria
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Bioprocesses optimization and anticancer activity of camptothecin from Aspergillus flavus, an endophyte of in vitro cultured Astragalus fruticosus. Mol Biol Rep 2022; 49:4349-4364. [DOI: 10.1007/s11033-022-07271-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Cao PX, Liu Y, Ma HM, Zhao N, Chen ST, Xu GQ, Liu X. Fungal Diversity in the Soil of the Oxytropis glacialis Root System on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:831783. [PMID: 35283812 PMCID: PMC8907473 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.831783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Because of swainonine-producing endophytic fungal, Oxytropis glacialis is one of the main poisonous weeds in the alpine grassland and desert grassland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). It has a severe impact on grassland degradation on the QTP. In this manuscript, the Internally Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region of fungal communities in the soil of the O. glacialis root system was sequenced by high-throughput sequencing and analyzed by bioinformatics methods. The physical and chemical properties of the soil samples were analyzed in combination with the fungal diversity and its relationship with the soil physical and chemical factors. The results showed that the soil fungal community in the O. glacialis root system are rich in diversity in different ecological environments and are most affected by the soil pH value and organic matter. The swainonine-producing fungal Embellisia oxytropis was first detected in the soil of the O. glacialis root system. This finding provides data to support the next step in demonstrating the horizontal spread of swainone-producing fungal from O. glacialis to soil. In addition, a stable network of core flora has a facilitating effect on the formation of O. glacialis as a dominant species in alpine ecosystems.
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- Peng-Xi Cao
- Ecological Field Station Real-Time Monitoring Center, Research Center for Ecology, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota to Extreme Environments, Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Ecological Field Station Real-Time Monitoring Center, Research Center for Ecology, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota to Extreme Environments, Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Ecological Field Station Real-Time Monitoring Center, Research Center for Ecology, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota to Extreme Environments, Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet University, Lhasa, China
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- Ecological Field Station Real-Time Monitoring Center, Research Center for Ecology, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota to Extreme Environments, Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet University, Lhasa, China
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- Ecological Field Station Real-Time Monitoring Center, Research Center for Ecology, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota to Extreme Environments, Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet University, Lhasa, China
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- Ecological Field Station Real-Time Monitoring Center, Research Center for Ecology, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota to Extreme Environments, Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet University, Lhasa, China
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- Ecological Field Station Real-Time Monitoring Center, Research Center for Ecology, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota to Extreme Environments, Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet University, Lhasa, China.,College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Qian X, Lü Q, He X, Wang Y, Li H, Xiao Q, Zheng X, Lin R. Pseudomonas sp. TCd-1 significantly alters the rhizosphere bacterial community of rice in Cd contaminated paddy field. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 290:133257. [PMID: 34906525 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.133257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Cadmium (Cd) pollution of paddy soils is one of the main concerns causing food security and environmental problems. Microbial bioremediation is an effective and eco-friendly measure that uses microbes to reduce Cd accumulation in crops. Additionally, rhizosphere bacterial communities also act essential roles in crop tolerance of heavy metals. However, the effects of inoculations with Cd resistant bacteria on crop rhizosphere bacterial communities under Cd exposure are largely unknown. In this study, we used high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing technologies to explore the community structure and co-occurrence network of the rhizosphere bacterial communities associated with the rice crop under different Cd treatments and the application of Cd-tolerant strain Pseudomonas sp. TCd-1. We found that the strain TCd-1 both significantly reduced the rhizobacterial alpha diversity and changed the beta diversity. PERMANOVA and NMDS analysis showed that Cd stress and TCd-1 strain could act as strong environmental filters resulting in observable differentiation of rhizobacterial community composition among different groups. In addition, RDA results indicated that the rhizosphere pH, root Cd content, catalase (CAT), urease (URE), gibberellic acid (GA3) exert significant association with rhizosphere bacterial assembly. PICRUSt analysis revealed that the TCd-1 strain improved the metabolic capacity of rhizosphere bacteria under Cd stress. Furthermore, co-occurrence network topological features and keystone taxa also varied among different groups. This study could provide necessary insights into developing an efficient bioremediation and safe production of rice crops in Cd contaminated paddy fields with the application of Pseudomonas sp. TCd-1 strain, as well as advance our understanding of the principles of rhizosphere bacterial community assembly under Cd stress.
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- Xin Qian
- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- Biomarker Technologies Corporation, Beijing, 101300, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Key Laboratory of Crop Ecology and Molecular Physiology of Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Key Laboratory of Crop Ecology and Molecular Physiology of Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; Key Laboratory of Crop Ecology and Molecular Physiology of Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China.
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Gholizadeh S, Mohammadi SA, Salekdeh GH. Changes in root microbiome during wheat evolution. BMC Microbiol 2022; 22:64. [PMID: 35219318 PMCID: PMC8881823 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-022-02467-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background
Although coevolutionary signatures of host-microbe interactions are considered to engineer the healthy microbiome of humans, little is known about the changes in root-microbiome during plant evolution. To understand how the composition of the wheat and its ancestral species microbiome have changed over the evolutionary processes, we performed a 16S rRNA metagenomic analysis on rhizobacterial communities associated with a phylogenetic framework of four Triticum species T. urartu, T. turgidum, T. durum, and T. aestivum along with their ancestral species Aegilops speltoides, and Ae. tauschii during vegetative and reproductive stages.
Results
In this study, we illustrated that the genome contents of wild species Aegilops speltoides and Ae. tauschii can be significant factors determining the composition of root-associated bacterial communities in domesticated bread wheat. Although it was found that domestication and modern breeding practices might have had a significant impact on microbiome-plant interactions especially at the reproductive stage, we observed an extensive and selective control by wheat genotypes on associated rhizobacterial communities at the same time. Our data also showed a strong genotypic variation within species of T. aestivum and Ae. tauschii, suggesting potential breeding targets for plants surveyed.
Conclusions
This study performed with different genotypes of Triticum and Aegilops species is the first study showing that the genome contents of Ae. speltoides and Ae. tauschii along with domestication-related changes can be significant factors determining the composition of root-associated bacterial communities in bread wheat. It is also indirect evidence that shows a very extensive range of host traits and genes are probably involved in host-microbe interactions. Therefore, understanding the wheat root-associated microbiome needs to take into consideration of its polygenetic mosaic nature.
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Persyn A, Mueller A, Goormachtig S. Drops join to make a stream: high-throughput nanoscale cultivation to grasp the lettuce root microbiome. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2022; 14:60-69. [PMID: 34797028 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.13014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Root endospheres house complex and diverse bacterial communities, of which many strains have not been cultivated yet by means of the currently available isolation techniques. The Prospector® (General Automation Lab Technologies, San Carlos, CA, USA), an automated and high-throughput bacterial cultivation system, was applied to analyse the root endomicrobiome of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). By using deep sequencing, we compared the results obtained with the Prospector and the traditional solid medium culturing and extinction methods. We found that the species richness did not differ and that the amount of previously uncultured bacteria did not increase, but that the bacterial diversity isolated by the three methods varied. In addition, the tryptic soy broth and King's B media provided a lower, but different, diversity of bacteria than that of Reasoner's 2A (R2A) medium when used within the Prospector system and the number of unique bacterial strains did not weigh up against those isolated with the R2A medium. Thus, to cultivate as broad a variety of bacteria as possible, divergent isolation techniques should be used in parallel. Thanks to its speed and limited manual requirements, the Prospector is a valuable system to enlarge root microbiome culture collections.
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- Antoine Persyn
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- General Automation Lab Technologies (GALT), San Carlos, CA, 94070, USA
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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Gemeda B, Tesfaye G, Simachew A, Andualem B, Wang A, Guadie A. Microbial community shifts association with physicochemical parameters: Visualizing enset bacterial wilt from different states of enset health. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 302:114084. [PMID: 34773777 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Bacterial wilt of enset caused by Xanthomonas campestris is a devastating disease in Ethiopia, where enset is domesticated and served as a staple food for about 20 million people in the country. While enset is infected by bacteria, it shows different wilting stages. However, the microbial community shifts at the different stages of enset infection and associated physicochemical parameter changes remain poorly understood. This study was aimed to visualize the proportion of enset wilt bacterium from other microbial community and its association with physicochemical parameter at different states of enset health. Soil and enset (zero, first, second and third stages) samples were collected from three districts in Gamo Highlands for physicochemical and biological (culture dependent and16S rRNA gene sequence) analysis. The results of culture dependent analysis which has been complemented by 16S rRNA gene sequence confirmed that increasing trends were observed for Xanthomonadaceae, Pseudomonadaceae, Lactobacillaceae and Flavobacteriaceae, while Bacillaceae and Enterobacteriaceae showed progressive decrease from zero to the third stage. Particularly, the 16S rRNA data showed that Xanthomonadaceae increased significantly from zero to different (2.5 × 102 times at the onset of disease and 1.0-2.0 × 104 times at the second and third) stages of enset infection. Most physicochemical results showed that a decreasing trends from zero to third stage, while few parameters are showing an increasing trend. Moisture content (R2 ≥ 0.951, P ≤ 0.049) of the soil and plant samples positively influenced Xanthomonas abundance, while this bacterium showed a strongly negative significant correlation with pH (R2 ≥ -0.962, P ≤ 0.038), temperature (R2 ≥ -0.958, P ≤ 0.042), OM (R2 ≥ -0.952, P ≤ 0.048), and TN (R2 ≥ -0.951, P ≤ 0.049). A strongly negative significant correlation (R2 ≥ -0.948, P ≤ 0.050) was also observed between Xanthomonas and nutrients (K, Mg, Ca, and Cu). Overall, this study implies that different environmental factors found a key driving force of Xanthomonas proportional increment from low abundance at zero stage to higher abundance at the last stage of enset infection suggesting that considering these factors help to design an effective enset disease management strategy, for which further studies will be needed.
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- Birhanu Gemeda
- Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, 21, Ethiopia; Biodiversity Research and Conservation Center, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, 21, Ethiopia
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- Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, 21, Ethiopia
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- Addis Ababa University, Institute of Biotechnology, Industrial Biotechnology Unit, Ethiopia
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- University of Gonder, Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Industrial Biotechnology, Ethiopia
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- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, 21, Ethiopia; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, PR China.
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Abdullaeva Y, Ratering S, Ambika Manirajan B, Rosado-Porto D, Schnell S, Cardinale M. Domestication Impacts the Wheat-Associated Microbiota and the Rhizosphere Colonization by Seed- and Soil-Originated Microbiomes, Across Different Fields. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 12:806915. [PMID: 35095978 PMCID: PMC8789879 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.806915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The seed-transmitted microorganisms and the microbiome of the soil in which the plant grows are major drivers of the rhizosphere microbiome, a crucial component of the plant holobiont. The seed-borne microbiome can be even coevolved with the host plant as a result of adaptation and vertical transmission over generations. The reduced genome diversity and crossing events during domestication might have influenced plant traits that are important for root colonization by seed-borne microbes and also rhizosphere recruitment of microbes from the bulk soil. However, the impact of the breeding on seed-transmitted microbiome composition and the plant ability of microbiome selection from the soil remain unknown. Here, we analyzed both endorhiza and rhizosphere microbiome of two couples of genetically related wild and cultivated wheat species (Aegilops tauschii/Triticum aestivum and T. dicoccoides/T. durum) grown in three locations, using 16S rRNA gene and ITS2 metabarcoding, to assess the relative contribution of seed-borne and soil-derived microbes to the assemblage of the rhizosphere microbiome. We found that more bacterial and fungal ASVs are transmitted from seed to the endosphere of all species compared with the rhizosphere, and these transmitted ASVs were species-specific regardless of location. Only in one location, more microbial seed transmission occurred also in the rhizosphere of A. tauschii compared with other species. Concerning soil-derived microbiome, the most distinct microbial genera occurred in the rhizosphere of A. tauschii compared with other species in all locations. The rhizosphere of genetically connected wheat species was enriched with similar taxa, differently between locations. Our results demonstrate that host plant criteria for soil bank's and seed-originated microbiome recruitment depend on both plants' genotype and availability of microorganisms in a particular environment. This study also provides indications of coevolution between the host plant and its associated microbiome resulting from the vertical transmission of seed-originated taxa.
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies – DiSTeBA, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
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Tian L, Chang J, Shi S, Ji L, Zhang J, Sun Y, Li X, Li X, Xie H, Cai Y, Chen D, Wang J, van Veen JA, Kuramae EE, Tran LSP, Tian C. Comparison of methane metabolism in the rhizomicrobiomes of wild and related cultivated rice accessions reveals a strong impact of crop domestication. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 803:150131. [PMID: 34788940 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Microbial communities from rhizosphere (rhizomicrobiomes) have been significantly impacted by domestication as evidenced by a comparison of the rhizomicrobiomes of wild and related cultivated rice accessions. While there have been many published studies focusing on the structure of the rhizomicrobiome, studies comparing the functional traits of the microbial communities in the rhizospheres of wild rice and cultivated rice accessions are not yet available. In this study, we used metagenomic data from experimental rice plots to analyze the potential functional traits of the microbial communities in the rhizospheres of wild rice accessions originated from Africa and Asia in comparison with their related cultivated rice accessions. The functional potential of rhizosphere microbial communities involved in alanine, aspartate and glutamate metabolism, methane metabolism, carbon fixation pathways, citrate cycle (TCA cycle), pyruvate metabolism and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis pathways were found to be enriched in the rhizomicrobiomes of wild rice accessions. Notably, methane metabolism in the rhizomicrobiomes of wild and cultivated rice accessions clearly differed. Key enzymes involved in methane production and utilization were overrepresented in the rhizomicrobiome samples obtained from wild rice accessions, suggesting that the rhizomicrobiomes of wild rice maintain a different ecological balance for methane production and utilization compared with those of the related cultivated rice accessions. A novel assessment of the impact of rice domestication on the primary metabolic pathways associated with microbial taxa in the rhizomicrobiomes was performed. Results indicated a strong impact of rice domestication on methane metabolism; a process that represents a critical function of the rhizosphere microbial community of rice. The findings of this study provide important information for future breeding of rice varieties with reduced methane emission during cultivation for sustainable agriculture.
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- Lei Tian
- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, the Netherlands; Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Life Science, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
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- Jiangxi Super-rice Research and Development Center, National Engineering Laboratory for Rice, Nanchang, China
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- Jiangxi Super-rice Research and Development Center, National Engineering Laboratory for Rice, Nanchang, China
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- Jiangxi Super-rice Research and Development Center, National Engineering Laboratory for Rice, Nanchang, China
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- Jiangxi Super-rice Research and Development Center, National Engineering Laboratory for Rice, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, the Netherlands; Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Viet Nam; Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, TX 79409, USA.
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China.
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Yu Z, Zou S, Li N, Kerfahi D, Lee C, Adams J, Kwak HJ, Kim J, Lee S, Dong K. Elevation-related climatic factors dominate soil free-living nematode communities and their co-occurrence patterns on Mt. Halla, South Korea. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:18540-18551. [PMID: 35003691 PMCID: PMC8717350 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Nematodes play vital roles in soil ecosystems. To understand how their communities and coexistence patterns change along the elevation as well as to determine the best explanatory factors underlying these changes, we investigated free-living soil nematodes on Mt. Halla, South Korea, using an amplicon sequencing approach targeting the 18S rRNA gene. Our results showed that there was significant variation in the community diversity and composition of soil nematodes in relation to elevation. The network interactions between soil nematodes were more intensive at the lower elevations. Climatic variables were responsible explaining the elevational variation in community composition and co-occurrence pattern of the nematode community. Our study indicated that climatic factors served as the critical environmental filter that influenced not only the community structure but also the potential associations of soil nematodes in the mountain ecosystem of Mt. Halla. These findings enhance the understanding of the community structure and co-occurrence network patterns and mechanisms of soil nematode along elevation, and the response of soil nematodes to climate change on the vertical scale of mountain ecosystems.
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- Zhi Yu
- Department of Integrative BiotechnologySungkyunkwan UniversitySuwonSouth Korea
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- Department of Integrative BiotechnologySungkyunkwan UniversitySuwonSouth Korea
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu GulfGuangxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Intelligent SimulationNanning Normal UniversityNanningChina
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- Department of Biological SciencesSchool of Natural SciencesKeimyung UniversityDaeguKorea
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- Department of Forestry, Environment and SystemsKookmin UniversitySeoulSouth Korea
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- School of Geographic and Oceanographic SciencesNanjing UniversityNanjingChina
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- Department of Biological SciencesKyonggi UniversitySuwon‐siSouth Korea
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- Department of Biological SciencesKyonggi UniversitySuwon‐siSouth Korea
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- Department of Integrative BiotechnologySungkyunkwan UniversitySuwonSouth Korea
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- Department of Biological SciencesKyonggi UniversitySuwon‐siSouth Korea
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González-Benítez N, Martín-Rodríguez I, Cuesta I, Arrayás M, White JF, Molina MC. Endophytic Microbes Are Tools to Increase Tolerance in Jasione Plants Against Arsenic Stress. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:664271. [PMID: 34690941 PMCID: PMC8527096 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.664271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Seed microbiota is becoming an emergent area of research. Host plant microbial diversity is increasingly well described, yet relatively little is known about the stressors driving plant endomicrobiota at the metaorganism level. The present work examines the role of horizontal and vertical transmission of bacterial microbiota in response to abiotic stress generated by arsenic. Horizontal transmission is achieved by bioaugmentation with the endophyte Rhodococcus rhodochrous, while vertical transmission comes via maternal inheritance from seeds. To achieve this goal, all experiments were conducted with two Jasione species. J. montana is tolerant to arsenic (As), whereas J. sessiliflora, being phylogenetically close to J. montana, was not previously described as As tolerant. The Jasione core bacterial endophytes are composed of genera Pseudomonas, Ralstonia, Undibacterium, Cutibacterium, and Kocuria and family Comamanadaceae across different environmental conditions. All these operational taxonomic units (OTUs) coexisted from seeds to the development of the seedling, independently of As stress, or bioaugmentation treatment and Jasione species. R. rhodochrous colonized efficiently both species, driving the endomicrobiota structure of Jasione with a stronger effect than As stress. Despite the fact that most of the OTUs identified inside Jasione seeds and seedlings belonged to rare microbiota, they represent a large bacterial reservoir offering important physiological and ecological traits to the host. Jasione traits co-regulated with R. rhodochrous, and the associated microbiota improved the host response to As stress. NGS-Illumina tools provided further knowledge about the ecological and functional roles of plant endophytes.
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- Natalia González-Benítez
- Department of Biology, Geology, Physics, and Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Geology, Physics, and Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Bioinformática, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Área de Electromagnetismo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- Department of Biology, Geology, Physics, and Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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Fernández-González AJ, Ramírez-Tejero JA, Nevado-Berzosa MP, Luque F, Fernández-López M, Mercado-Blanco J. Coupling the endophytic microbiome with the host transcriptome in olive roots. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:4777-4789. [PMID: 34504670 PMCID: PMC8411203 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.08.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The connection between olive genetic responses to environmental and agro-climatic conditions and the composition, structure and functioning of host-associated, belowground microbiota has never been studied under the holobiont conceptual framework. Two groups of cultivars growing under the same environmental, pedological and agronomic conditions, and showing highest (AH) and lowest (AL) Actinophytocola relative abundances, were earlier identified. We aimed now to: i) compare the root transcriptome profiles of these two groups harboring significantly different relative abundances in the above-mentioned bacterial genus; ii) examine their rhizosphere and root-endosphere microbiota co-occurrence networks; and iii) connect the root host transcriptome pattern to the composition of the root microbial communities by correlation and co-occurrence network analyses. Significant differences in olive gene expression were found between the two groups. Co-occurrence networks of the root endosphere microbiota were clearly different as well. Pearson's correlation analysis enabled a first portray of the interaction occurring between the root host transcriptome and the endophytic community. To further identify keystone operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and genes, subsequent co-occurrence network analysis showed significant interactions between 32 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and 19 OTUs. Overall, negative correlation was detected between all upregulated genes in the AH group and all OTUs except of Actinophytocola. While two groups of olive cultivars grown under the same conditions showed significantly different microbial profiles, the most remarkable finding was to unveil a strong correlation between these profiles and the differential gene expression pattern of each group. In conclusion, this study shows a holistic view of the plant-microbiome communication.
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- Antonio J. Fernández-González
- Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Calle Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Experimental, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Olivar y Aceites de Oliva, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Experimental, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Olivar y Aceites de Oliva, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Experimental, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Olivar y Aceites de Oliva, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Calle Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Protección de Cultivos, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, CSIC, Campus ‘Alameda del Obispo’ s/n, Avd. Menéndez Pidal s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
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Ecological Study of Aquaponics Bacterial Microbiota over the Course of a Lettuce Growth Cycle. WATER 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/w13152089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The study of microorganisms in aquaponics is an important topic which requires more research before exploiting the full potential of beneficial microorganisms. In this experiment, we focused on the evolution over time of the bacterial communities in four compartments of an aquaponic system i.e., the sump, the biofilter, the lettuce rhizoplane and lettuce root. We studied these communities over the course of a lettuce growth cycle via regular sampling and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene of the collected bacteria. We also followed the physicochemical parameters of the aquaponic water throughout the experiment. Results show that a different community could be found in each compartment and that all four communities were stable throughout time and resilient to naturally occurring water parameter changes which characterize functioning aquaponic systems. Furthermore, the communities of the sump and biofilter also seem stable over the years as the predominant taxa (Luteolibacter, Flavobacterium, Nitrospira) observed in our study are similar to the ones previously reported for this aquaponic system. Finally, our results provide proof for similarities between aquaponic and soil borne lettuce root communities (gammaproteobacteria, Flavobacterium, Pseudomonadaceae, Sphingomonadaceae) thus showing that aquaponics can be similar to soil production in terms of microbial life.
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Sauer S, Dlugosch L, Kammerer DR, Stintzing FC, Simon M. The Microbiome of the Medicinal Plants Achillea millefolium L. and Hamamelis virginiana L. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:696398. [PMID: 34354692 PMCID: PMC8329415 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.696398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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In the recent past many studies investigated the microbiome of plants including several medicinal plants (MP). Microbial communities of the associated soil, rhizosphere and the above-ground organs were included, but there is still limited information on their seasonal development, and in particular simultaneous investigations of different plant organs are lacking. Many studies predominantly addressed either the prokaryotic or fungal microbiome. A distinction of epi- and endophytic communities of above-ground plant organs has rarely been made. Therefore, we conducted a comprehensive investigation of the bacterial and fungal microbiome of the MP Achillea millefolium and studied the epi- and endophytic microbial communities of leaves, flower buds and flowers between spring and summer together with the microbiome of the associated soil at one location. Further, we assessed the core microbiome of Achillea from four different locations at distances up to 250 km in southern Germany and Switzerland. In addition, the bacterial and fungal epi- and endophytic leaf microbiome of the arborescent shrub Hamamelis virginiana and the associated soil was investigated at one location. The results show a generally decreasing diversity of both microbial communities from soil to flower of Achillea. The diversity of the bacterial and fungal endophytic leaf communities of Achillea increased from April to July, whereas that of the epiphytic leaf communities decreased. In contrast, the diversity of the fungal communities of both leaf compartments and that of epiphytic bacteria of Hamamelis increased over time indicating plant-specific differences in the temporal development of microbial communities. Both MPs exhibited distinct microbial communities with plant-specific but also common taxa. The core taxa of Achillea constituted a lower fraction of the total number of taxa than of the total abundance of taxa. The results of our study provide a basis to link interactions of the microbiome with their host plant in relation to the production of bioactive compounds.
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- Simon Sauer
- WALA Heilmittel GmbH, Bad Boll, Germany
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Invasive Lactuca serriola seeds contain endophytic bacteria that contribute to drought tolerance. Sci Rep 2021; 11:13307. [PMID: 34172799 PMCID: PMC8233371 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92706-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The mutualistic relationship between alien plant species and microorganisms is proposed to facilitate or hinder invasive success, depending on whether plants can form novel associations with microorganisms in the introduced habitats. However, this hypothesis has not considered seed endophytes that would move together with plant propagules. Little information is available on the seed endophytic bacteria of invasive species and their effects on plant performance. We isolated the seed endophytic bacteria of a xerophytic invasive plant, Lactuca serriola, and examined their plant growth-promoting traits. In addition, we assessed whether these seed endophytes contributed to plant drought tolerance. Forty-two bacterial species were isolated from seeds, and all of them exhibited at least one plant growth-promoting trait. Kosakonia cowanii occurred in all four tested plant populations and produced a high concentration of exopolysaccharides in media with a highly negative water potential. Notably, applying K. cowanii GG1 to Arabidopsis thaliana stimulated plant growth under drought conditions. It also reduced soil water loss under drought conditions, suggesting bacterial production of exopolysaccharides might contribute to the maintenance of soil water content. These results imply that invasive plants can disperse along with beneficial bacterial symbionts, which potentially improve plant fitness and help to establish alien plant species.
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Wang J, Wu H, Wu L, Liu Y, Letuma P, Qin X, Chen T, Rensing C, Lin S, Lin W. Revealing Microbiome Structure and Assembly Process in Three Rhizocompartments of Achyranthes bidentata Under Continuous Monoculture Regimes. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:677654. [PMID: 34194412 PMCID: PMC8236951 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.677654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The complex composition and interaction of root-associated microbes are critical to plant health and performance. In this study, we presented a detailed characterization of three rhizocompartment (rhizosphere, rhizoplane, and root) microbiomes of Achyranthes bidentata under different years of consecutive monoculture by deep sequencing in order to determine keystone microorganisms via co-occurrence network analysis. The network analysis showed that multiple consecutive monoculture (MCM, represented 5Y and 10Y) soils generated some distinct beneficial bacterial taxa such as Bacillus, Fictibacillus, Bradyrhizobium, Shinella, and Herbaspirillum. For fungi, Mortierella substituted for Fusarium in occupying an important position in different rhizocompartments under A. bidentate monoculture. Quantitative PCR analysis confirmed a significant increase in Bacillus, Pseudomonas, and Burkholderia spp. The results of the inoculation assay showed that addition of beneficial bacteria Bacillus subtilis 74 and Bacillus halodurans 75 significantly increased the root length and fresh weight of A. bidentata. Furthermore, three types of phytosterones, as the main allochemicals, were identified both in the rhizosphere soil and in culture medium under sterile conditions by LC-MS/MS. When looking at in vitro interactions, it was found that phytosterones displayed a positive interaction with dominant beneficial species (Bacillus amyloliquefaciens 4 and B. halodurans 75) and had a negative effect on the presence of the pathogenic fungi Fusarium solani and Fusarium oxysporum. Overall, this study demonstrated that consecutive monoculture of A. bidentata can alter the bacterial and fungal community by secreting root exudates, leading to recruitment of beneficial microbes and replacement of plant-specific pathogenic fungi with plant beneficial fungi.
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- Juanying Wang
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education, College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education, College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education, College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education, College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Crop Science, National University of Lesotho, Maseru, Lesotho
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- Key Laboratory for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education, College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education, College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education, College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Genetics, Breeding and Multiple Utilization of Crops, Ministry of Education, College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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Nakayasu M, Ohno K, Takamatsu K, Aoki Y, Yamazaki S, Takase H, Shoji T, Yazaki K, Sugiyama A. Tomato roots secrete tomatine to modulate the bacterial assemblage of the rhizosphere. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 186:270-284. [PMID: 33619554 PMCID: PMC8154044 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Saponins are the group of plant specialized metabolites which are widely distributed in angiosperm plants and have various biological activities. The present study focused on α-tomatine, a major saponin present in tissues of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants. α-Tomatine is responsible for defense against plant pathogens and herbivores, but its biological function in the rhizosphere remains unknown. Secretion of tomatine was higher at the early growth than the green-fruit stage in hydroponically grown plants, and the concentration of tomatine in the rhizosphere of field-grown plants was higher than that of the bulk soil at all growth stages. The effects of tomatine and its aglycone tomatidine on the bacterial communities in the soil were evaluated in vitro, revealing that both compounds influenced the microbiome in a concentration-dependent manner. Numerous bacterial families were influenced in tomatine/tomatidine-treated soil as well as in the tomato rhizosphere. Sphingomonadaceae species, which are commonly observed and enriched in tomato rhizospheres in the fields, were also enriched in tomatine- and tomatidine-treated soils. Moreover, a jasmonate-responsive ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR 4 mutant associated with low tomatine production caused the root-associated bacterial communities to change with a reduced abundance of Sphingomonadaceae. Taken together, our results highlight the role of tomatine in shaping the bacterial communities of the rhizosphere and suggest additional functions of tomatine in belowground biological communication.
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- Masaru Nakayasu
- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji 611-0011, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji 611-0011, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji 611-0011, Japan
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- Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8573, Japan
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- Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8573, Japan
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- Faculty of Bioenvironmental Science, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Kameoka, Kyoto 621-8555, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji 611-0011, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji 611-0011, Japan
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Thomas-Barry G, St Martin CCG, Lynch MDJ, Ramsubhag A, Rouse-Miller J, Charles TC. Driving factors influencing the rhizobacteriome community structure of plants adapted to multiple climatic stressors in edaphic savannas. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 769:145214. [PMID: 33493909 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Revised: 01/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The natural variation of multiple abiotic stresses in hyper-seasonal edaphic savanna provides a unique opportunity to study the rhizobacteriome community structure of plants adapted to climate change-like conditions in the humid tropics. In this study, we evaluated changes in soil, plant and rhizobacteriome community structure parameters across seasons (wet and dry) in two edaphic savannas (SV-1 and SV-5) using four dominant plant species. We then examined relationships between rhizobacteriome community structure and soil properties, plant biomass, and conventional and novel root traits. We further hypothesized that plants adapted to the Aripo Savanna had a core rhizobacteriome, which was specific to plant species and related to root foraging traits. Our results showed that cation exchange capacity (CEC) and the concentration of micronutrients (Fe, Cu and B) were the only soil factors that differed across savanna and season, respectively. Plant biomass traits were generally higher in the dry season, with a higher allocation to root growth in SV-5. Root traits were more plastic in SV-5, and network length-distribution was the only root trait which showed a consistent pattern of lower values in the dry season for three of the dominant plant species. Rhizobacterial community compositions were dominated by Proteobacteria and Acidobacteria, as well as WPS-2, which is dominant in extreme environments. We identified a shared core rhizobacteriome across plant species and savannas. Cation exchange capacity was a major driver of rhizobacterial community assemblies across savannas. Savanna-specific drivers of rhizobacterial community assemblies included CEC and Fe for SV-1, and CEC, TDS, NH4+, NO3-, Mn, K, and network length-distribution for SV-5. Plant factors on the microbiome were minimal, and host selectivity was mediated by the seasonal changes. We conclude that edaphoclimatic factors (soil and season) are the key determinants influencing rhizobacteriome community structure in multiple stressed-environments, which are ecologically similar to the Aripo Savanna.
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- Gem Thomas-Barry
- Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
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- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; Metagenom Bio Life Science Inc, Waterloo, ON N2L 5V4, Canada
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; Metagenom Bio Life Science Inc, Waterloo, ON N2L 5V4, Canada
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Qian Y, Xu M, Deng T, Hu W, He Z, Yang X, Wang B, Song D, Chen L, Huang Y, Sun G. Synergistic interactions of Desulfovibrio and Petrimonas for sulfate-reduction coupling polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2021; 407:124385. [PMID: 33229269 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Microbial sulfate-reduction coupling polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) degradation is an important process for the remediation of contaminated sediments. However, little is known about core players and their mechanisms in this process due to the complexity of PAH degradation and the large number of microorganisms involved. Here we analyzed potential core players in a black-odorous sediment using gradient-dilution culturing, isolation and genomic/metagenomic approaches. Along the dilution gradient, microbial PAH degradation and sulfate consumption were not decreased, and even a significant (p = 0.003) increase was observed in the degradation of phenanthrene although the microbial diversity declined. Two species, affiliated with Desulfovibrio and Petrimonas, were commonly present in all of the gradients as keystone taxa and showed as the dominant microorganisms in the single colony (SB8) isolated from the highest dilution culture with 93.49% and 4.73% of the microbial community, respectively. Desulfovibrio sp. SB8 and Petrimonas sp. SB8 could serve together as core players for sulfate-reduction coupling PAH degradation, in which Desulfovibrio sp. SB8 could degrade PAHs to hexahydro-2-naphthoyl through the carboxylation pathway while Petrimonas sp. SB8 might degrade intermediate metabolites of PAHs. This study provides new insights into the microbial sulfate-reduction coupling PAH degradation in black-odorous sediments.
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- Youfen Qian
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Environmental Microbiomics Research Center and School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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Zheng W, Miao J, Luo L, Long G, Chen B, Shu X, Gu W, Peng K, Li F, Zhao H, Botchway BOA, Fang M, Jiang M. The Effects of Helicobacter pylori Infection on Microbiota Associated With Gastric Mucosa and Immune Factors in Children. Front Immunol 2021; 12:625586. [PMID: 33841407 PMCID: PMC8024644 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.625586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Background Helicobacter pylori infection is the main cause of chronic gastritis in children. Little is known about the effect of Helicobacter pylori on microbiota and immunity. This study was aimed at characterizing stomach microbiota and immune-regulatory properties of children with Helicobacter pylori colonization. Methods We studied 122 children who had undergone gastric endoscopy due to gastrointestinal symptoms, 57 were diagnosed with Helicobacter pylori infection. Endoscopic mucosal biopsy samples were obtained for DNA and RNA extraction. Microbiomes were analyzed by 16S rRNA profiling, with the differentially expressed genes analyzed using RNA sequencing. The RNA-sequencing results of selected genes were validated by qRT-PCR. Results Bacterial diversity of Helicobacter pylori-positive gastric specimens were lower than those of negative, and both groups were clearly separated according to beta diversity. Helicobacter pylori-positive group significantly reduced proportions of six phyla and eight genera; only Helicobacter taxa were more abundant in Helicobacter pylori-negative group. Gastric tissues RNA sequencing showed increased expression of multiple immune response genes in Helicobacter pylori -infection. Helicobacter pylori -infected children with restructured gastric microbiota had higher levels of FOXP3, IL-10, TGF-β1 and IL-17A expressions, which were consistent with increased CD4+T cell and macrophagocyte, compared with non-infected children. Conclusions Presence of Helicobacter pylori significantly influences gastric microbiota and results in lower abundance of multiple taxonomic levels in children. Meanwhile, it affects gastric immune environment and promotes the occurrence of gastritis. Clinical Trial Registration [http://www.chictr.org.cn], identifier [ChiCTR1800015190].
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- Wei Zheng
- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, National Children's Regional Medical Center, Hangzhou, China
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Wipf HML, Coleman-Derr D. Evaluating domestication and ploidy effects on the assembly of the wheat bacterial microbiome. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0248030. [PMID: 33735198 PMCID: PMC7971525 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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While numerous studies implicate the microbiome in host fitness, contributions of host evolution to microbial recruitment remain largely uncharacterized. Past work has shown that plant polyploidy and domestication can influence plant biotic and abiotic interactions, yet impacts on broader microbiome assembly are still unknown for many crop species. In this study, we utilized three approaches-two field studies and one greenhouse-based experiment-to determine the degree to which patterns in bacterial community assembly in wheat (Triticum sp.) roots and rhizospheres are attributable to the host factors of ploidy level (2n, 4n, 6n) and domestication status (cultivated vs. wild). Profiling belowground bacterial communities with 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we analyzed patterns in diversity and composition. From our initial analyses of a subsetted dataset, we observed that host ploidy level was statistically significant in explaining variation in alpha and beta diversity for rhizosphere microbiomes, as well as correlated with distinct phylum-level shifts in composition, in the field. Using a reduced complexity field soil inoculum and controlled greenhouse conditions, we found some evidence suggesting that genomic lineage and ploidy level influence root alpha and beta diversity (p-value<0.05). However, in a follow-up field experiment using an expanded set of Triticum genomes that included both wild and domesticated varieties, we did not find a strong signal for either diploid genome lineages, domestication status, or ploidy level in shaping rhizosphere bacterial communities. Taken together, these results suggest that while host ploidy and domestication may have some minor influence on microbial assembly, these impacts are subtle and difficult to assess in belowground compartments for wheat varieties. By improving our understanding of the degree to which host ploidy and cultivation factors shape the plant microbiome, this research informs perspectives on what key driving forces may underlie microbiome structuring, as well as where future efforts may be best directed towards fortifying plant growth by microbial means. The greatest influence of the host on the wheat microbiome appeared to occur in the rhizosphere compartment, and we suggest that future work focuses on this environment to further characterize how host genomic and phenotypic changes influence plant-microbe communications.
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- Heidi M. L. Wipf
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS, Albany, California, United States of America
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