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Host preference and invasiveness of commensal bacteria in the Lotus and Arabidopsis root microbiota

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NATURE MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 1150-+

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-021-00941-9

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  1. Max Planck Society
  2. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy, EXC [390686111, 2048/1]
  3. Chinese Scholarship Council
  4. Novo Nordisk programme InRoot [NNF19SA0059362]
  5. '2125 DECRyPT' Priority Programme

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The study reveals that commensal bacteria in root microbiota exhibit host preferences, which are associated with their invasiveness into established root-associated communities, as shown in systematic analyses of synthetic bacterial communities in a gnotobiotic system.
Roots of different plant species are colonized by bacterial communities, that are distinct even when hosts share the same habitat. It remains unclear to what extent the host actively selects these communities and whether commensals are adapted to a specific plant species. To address this question, we assembled a sequence-indexed bacterial culture collection from roots and nodules of Lotus japonicus that contains representatives of most species previously identified using metagenomics. We analysed taxonomically paired synthetic communities from L. japonicus and Arabidopsis thaliana in a multi-species gnotobiotic system and detected signatures of host preference among commensal bacteria in a community context, but not in mono-associations. Sequential inoculation experiments revealed priority effects during root microbiota assembly, where established communities are resilient to invasion by latecomers, and that host preference of commensal bacteria confers a competitive advantage in their cognate host. Our findings show that host preference in commensal bacteria from diverse taxonomic groups is associated with their invasiveness into standing root-associated communities. Host preferences of commensal bacteria in the root microbiota are revealed using systematic analyses of synthetic bacterial communities in a gnotobiotic system.

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