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DOI 10.3390/microorganisms7120585
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Title (Primary) First insights into the microbiome of a mangrove tree reveal significant differences in taxonomic and functional composition among plant and soil compartments
Author Purahong, W.; Sadubsarn, D.; Tanunchai, B.; Wahdan, S.F.M.; Sansupa, C.; Noll, M.; Wu, Y.-T.; Buscot, F.
Source Titel Microorganisms
Year 2019
Department BOOEK
Volume 7
Issue 12
Page From art. 585
Language englisch
Keywords bacterial diversity; fungal diversity; endophytic phytopathogens; fungal cenoses; halophytic plants; mangrove forest ecosystem; next-generation sequencing; plant epigeous compartments; Rhizophora stylosa microbiome
Abstract Mangrove forest trees play important ecological functions at the interface between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, despite playing crucial roles in plant health and productivity, there is little information on microbiomes of the tree species in mangrove ecosystems. Thus, in this study we aimed to characterize the microbiome in soil (rhizosphere) and plant (root, stem, and leaf endosphere) compartments of the widely distributed mangrove tree Rhizophora stylosa. Surprisingly, bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were only confidently detected in rhizosphere soil, while fungal OTUs were detected in all soil and plant compartments. The major detected bacterial phyla were affiliated to Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Planctomycetes, and Chloroflexi. Several nitrogen-fixing bacterial OTUs were detected, and the presence of nitrogen-fixing bacteria was confirmed by nifH gene based-PCR in all rhizosphere soil samples, indicating their involvement in N acquisition in the focal mangrove ecosystem. We detected taxonomically (54 families, 83 genera) and functionally diverse fungi in the R. stylosa mycobiome. Ascomycota (mainly Dothideomycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Sordariomycetes) were most diverse in the mycobiome, accounting for 86% of total detected fungal OTUs. We found significant differences in fungal taxonomic and functional community composition among the soil and plant compartments. We also detected significant differences in fungal OTU richness (p < 0.002) and community composition (p < 0.001) among plant compartments. The results provide the first information on the microbiome of rhizosphere soil to leaf compartments of mangrove trees and associated indications of ecological functions in mangrove ecosystems.
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Purahong, W., Sadubsarn, D., Tanunchai, B., Wahdan, S.F.M., Sansupa, C., Noll, M., Wu, Y.-T., Buscot, F. (2019):
First insights into the microbiome of a mangrove tree reveal significant differences in taxonomic and functional composition among plant and soil compartments
Microorganisms 7 (12), art. 585 10.3390/microorganisms7120585