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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.708475
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endophytic microbiota; niche differentiation; rice; vertical transmission; seedling growth
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) [2020R1A2B5B03096402, 2018R1A5A1023599]
- Korea Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, and Forestry through Agricultural Microbiome R&D Program - Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) [918017-04]
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Seeds carry genetic information and microbial communities that influence plant vigor. Seed coats serve as microbial niches affecting the composition and diversity of bacterial and fungal communities. Microbial communities originating from seeds persist in the leaf, stem, and root endospheres throughout the plant's life cycle.
Seeds harbor not only genetic information about plants but also microbial communities affecting plants' vigor. Knowledge on the movement and formation of seed microbial communities during plant development remains insufficient. Here, we address this knowledge gap by investigating endophytic bacterial and fungal communities of seeds, seedlings, and adult rice plants. We found that seed coats act as microbial niches for seed bacterial and fungal communities. The presence or absence of the seed coat affected taxonomic composition and diversity of bacterial and fungal communities associated with seeds and seedlings. Ordination analysis showed that niche differentiation between above- and belowground compartments leads to compositional differences in endophytic bacterial and fungal communities originating from seeds. Longitudinal tracking of the composition of microbial communities from field-grown rice revealed that bacterial and fungal communities originating from seeds persist in the leaf, stem, and root endospheres throughout the life cycle. Our study provides ecological insights into the assembly of the initial endophytic microbial communities of plants from seeds.
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