Ishizawa H, Tada M, Kuroda M, Inoue D, Futamata H, Ike M. Synthetic Bacterial Community of Duckweed: A Simple and Stable System to Study Plant-microbe Interactions.
Microbes Environ 2021;
35. [PMID:
33268659 PMCID:
PMC7734406 DOI:
10.1264/jsme2.me20112]
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Abstract
A complete understanding of the plant microbiome has not yet been achieved due to its complexity and temporal shifts in the community structure. To overcome these issues, we created a synthetic bacterial community of the aquatic plant, duckweed. The synthetic community established with six bacterial strains showed a stable composition for 50 days, which may have been because duckweed maintains a similar physiological status through its clonal reproduction. Additionally, the synthetic community reflected the taxonomic structure of the natural duckweed microbiome at the family level. These results suggest the potential of a duckweed-based synthetic community as a useful model system for examining the community assembly mechanisms of the plant microbiome.
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