Journal
MICROORGANISMS
Volume 11, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11092337
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alpha- and beta-diversity; amplicon sequencing variants; high-throughput sequencing; jam tomato; microbial diversity; round tomato; spoilage organisms
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This study used high-throughput next-generation sequencing to investigate the microbial diversity of two South African tomato cultivars at different storage intervals. The results showed that the bacterial communities of the two cultivars were more diverse than the fungal communities throughout the storage period. As the storage period increased, the microbial diversity between the two cultivars became distinct.
Even though the nutritional and economic values of Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) are substantially impacted by microbial spoilage, the available data on its microbial community, particularly during spoilage, are limited and have primarily been characterized using conventional culture-dependent methods. This study employed a targeted high-throughput next-generation sequencing method to longitudinally characterize the microbial diversity of two South African tomato cultivars (jam and round) at varied storage intervals (1, 6, and 12 days). Throughout the storage period, the bacterial communities of the two cultivars were more diverse than the fungal communities. The microbial diversity of both bacteria and fungi was greater and comparable between the cultivars on day 1, but becomes distinct as the storage period increases, with round tomatoes being more diverse than jam tomato, though, on day 12, jam tomato develops greater diversity than round tomato. Overall, the most abundant phyla (though Proteobacteria was most dominant) were Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteriodota in the bacterial communities, while Ascomycota and Basidiomycota formed most fungal communities with Ascomycota being dominant. At the genus level, Pantoea and Klebsiella (bacteria), Hanseniaspora, Stemphylium, and Alternaria (fungi) were prevalent. Taken together, this study casts light on a broad microbial diversity profile thus, confirms the cultivars' diversity and abundance differences.
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