Heritable Epichloe symbiosis shapes fungal but not bacterial communities of plant leaves
: Riitta Nissinen, Marjo Helander, Manoj Kumar, Kari Saikkonen
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
: 2019
: Scientific Reports
: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
: SCI REP-UK
: ARTN 5253
: 9
: 7
: 2045-2322
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41603-5(external)
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/40090673(external)
Keystone microbial species have driven eco-evolutionary processes since the origin of life. However, due to our inability to detect the majority of microbiota, members of diverse microbial communities of fungi, bacteria and viruses have largely been ignored as keystone species in past literature. Here we tested whether heritable Epichloe species of pooidae grasses modulate microbiota of their shared host plant.
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