Resistance and Not Plant Fruit Traits Determine Root-Associated Bacterial Community Composition along a Domestication Gradient in Tomato

Autor: Lisanne Smulders, Victoria Ferrero, Eduardo de la Peña, María J. Pozo, Juan Antonio Díaz Pendón, Emilio Benítez, Álvaro López-García
Přispěvatelé: European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: Plants
Plants; Volume 11; Issue 1; Pages: 43
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Plants, Vol 11, Iss 43, p 43 (2022)
PLANTS-BASEL
Plants Volume 11, issue 1
ISSN: 2223-7747
DOI: 10.3390/plants11010043
Popis: Soil bacterial communities are involved in multiple ecosystem services, key in determining plant productivity. Crop domestication and intensive agricultural practices often disrupt species interactions with unknown consequences for rhizosphere microbiomes. This study evaluates whether variation in plant traits along a domestication gradient determines the composition of rootassociated bacterial communities; and whether these changes are related to targeted plant traits (e.g., fruit traits) or are side effects of less-often-targeted traits (e.g., resistance) during crop breeding. For this purpose, 18 tomato varieties (wild and modern species) differing in fruit and resistance traits were grown in a field experiment, and their root-associated bacterial communities were characterised. Root-associated bacterial community composition was influenced by plant resistance traits and genotype relatedness. When only considering domesticated tomatoes, the effect of resistance on bacterial OTU composition increases, while the effect due to phylogenetic relatedness decreases. Furthermore, bacterial diversity positively correlated with plant resistance traits. These results suggest that resistance traits not selected during domestication are related to the capacity of tomato varieties to associate with different bacterial groups. Taken together, these results evidence the relationship between plant traits and bacterial communities, pointing out the potential of breeding to affect plant microbiomes.
This research has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under Grant agreement No 765290 and grant AGL2015-67733-R funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033.
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