Journal
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY
Volume 94, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy118
Keywords
Antibiotic resistance; bacterial antagonism; ecological differentiation; culture collection; plant microbiota; medicinal plants
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- Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze [2013.0657, 2016.0936]
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A key factor in the study of plant-microbes interactions is the composition of plant microbiota, but little is known about the factors determining its functional and taxonomic organization. Here we investigated the possible forces driving the assemblage of bacterial endophytic and rhizosphenc communities, isolated from two congeneric medicinal plants, Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench and Echinacea angustifolia (DC) Heller, grown in the same soil, by analysing bacterial strains (isolated from three different compartments, i.e. rhizospheric soil, roots and stem/leaves) for phenotypic features such as antibiotic resistance, extracellular enzymatic activity, siderophore and indole 3-acetic acid production, as well as cross-antagonistic activities. Data obtained highlighted that bacteria from different plant compartments were characterized by specific antibiotic resistance phenotypes and antibiotic production, suggesting that the bacterial communities themselves could be responsible for structuring their own communities by the production of antimicrobial molecules selecting bacterial-adaptive phenotypes for plant tissue colonization.
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