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CELL HOST & MICROBE
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 392-403Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.01.011
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- Max Planck Society
- European Research Council advanced grant (ROOTMICROBIOTA)
- Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences'' program - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Government
- Marie Curie Actions
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The microbial communities inhabiting the root interior of healthy plants, as well as the rhizosphere, which consists of soil particles firmly attached to roots, engage in symbiotic associations with their host. To investigate the structural and functional diversification among these communities, we employed a combination of 16S rRNA gene profiling and shotgun metagenome analysis of the microbiota associated with wild and domesticated accessions of barley (Hordeum vulgare). Bacterial families Comamonadaceae, Flavobacteriaceae, and Rhizobiaceae dominate the barley root-enriched microbiota. Host genotype has a small, but significant, effect on the diversity of root-associated bacterial communities, possibly representing a footprint of barley domestication. Traits related to pathogenesis, secretion, phage interactions, and nutrient mobilization are enriched in the barley root-associated microbiota. Strikingly, protein families assigned to these same traits showed evidence of positive selection. Our results indicate that the combined action of microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions drives microbiota differentiation at the root-soil interface.
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