articleNew PhytologistOct 15, 2015HYBRID OA

Plant compartment and biogeography affect microbiome composition in cultivated and native Agave species

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Joint Genome Institute · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

Desert plants are hypothesized to survive the environmental stress inherent to these regions in part thanks to symbioses with microorganisms, and yet these microbial species, the communities they form, and the forces that influence them are poorly understood. Here we report the first comprehensive investigation of the microbial communities associated with species of Agave, which are native to semiarid and arid regions of Central and North America and are emerging as biofuel feedstocks. We examined prokaryotic and fungal communities in the rhizosphere, phyllosphere, leaf and root endosphere, as well as proximal and distal soil samples from cultivated and native agaves, through Illumina amplicon sequencing.…

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