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Microbial Community, Metabolic Potential and Seasonality of Endosphere Microbiota Associated with Leaves of the Bioenergy Tree Paulownia elongata x fortunei

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23168978

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Paulownia; endomicrobiome; structural and functional diversity; bacteria; next-generation sequencing

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  1. National Science Centre, Poland [2016/23/N/NZ9/02157]

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This study evaluated the structure and functional profiles of endophytic bacterial communities associated with Paulownia elongata x fortunei, revealing a preference for carboxylic acids and amino acids. Main phyla identified were Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria. The analysis highlights the importance of understanding the plant endophytic microbiome for health control and management strategies in bioenergy tree plantations.
The microbial structure and metabolic function of plant-associated endophytes play a key role in the ecology of various environments, including trees. Here, the structure and functional profiles of the endophytic bacterial community, associated with Paulownia elongata x fortunei, in correlation with seasonality, were evaluated using Biolog EcoPlates. Biolog EcoPlates was used to analyse the functional diversity of the microbiome. The total communities of leaf endophyte communities were investigated using 16S rRNA V5-V7 region amplicon deep sequencing via Illumina MiSeq. Community level physiological profiling (CLPP) analysis by the Biolog EcoPlate (TM) assay revealed that the carboxylic acids (19.67-36.18%) and amino acids (23.95-35.66%) were preferred by all by all communities, whereas amines and amides (0.38-9.46%) were least used. Seasonal differences in substrate use were also found. Based on the sequencing data, mainly phyla Proteobacteria (18.4-97.1%) and Actinobacteria (2.29-78.7%) were identified. A core microbiome could be found in leaf-associated endophytic communities in trees growing in different locations. This work demonstrates the application of Biolog EcoPlates in studies of the functional diversity of microbial communities in a niche other than soil and shows how it can be applied to the functional analyses of endomicrobiomes. This research can contribute to the popularisation of Biolog EcoPlates for the functional analysis of the endomicrobiome. This study confirms that the analysis of the structure and function of the plant endophytic microbiome plays a key role in the health control and the development of management strategies on bioenergy tree plantations.

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