Drought and host selection influence bacterial community dynamics in the grass root microbiome

Naylor, D. and DeGraaf, S. and Purdom, E. and Coleman-Derr, D. and etl, . (2017) Drought and host selection influence bacterial community dynamics in the grass root microbiome. The ISME Journal, 11 (12). pp. 2691-2704.

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Abstract

Root endophytes have been shown to have important roles in determining host fitness under periods of drought stress, and yet the effect of drought on the broader root endosphere bacterial community remains largely uncharacterized. In this study, we present phylogenetic profiles of bacterial communities associated with drought-treated root and rhizosphere tissues of 18 species of plants with varying degrees of drought tolerance belonging to the Poaceae family, including important crop plants. Through 16S rRNA gene profiling across two distinct watering regimes and two developmental time points, we demonstrate that there is a strong correlation between host phylogenetic distance and the microbiome dissimilarity within root tissues, and that drought weakens this correlation by inducing conserved shifts in bacterial community composition. We identify a significant enrichment in a wide variety of Actinobacteria during drought within the roots of all hosts, and demonstrate that this enrichment is higher within the root than it is in the surrounding environments. Furthermore, we show that this observed enrichment is the result of an absolute increase in Actinobacterial abundance and that previously hypothesized mechanisms for observed enrichments in Actinobacteria in drought-treated soils are unlikely to fully account for the phenomena observed here within the plant root.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Root endophytes, drought stress, phylogenetic,bacterial,plant root
Author Affiliation: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Subjects: Crop Improvement
Divisions: General
Depositing User: Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited: 03 Jan 2019 05:35
Last Modified: 03 Jan 2019 05:35
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/15720

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