期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
卷 73, 期 8, 页码 2682-2697出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac032
关键词
Bacterial endophytes; holobiont; metatranscriptome; microbial ecology; virome; Vitis vinifera
资金
- Foundation 'Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo'
- Italian Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry
- FSE project 'ESCinterfere' [CUP C94E19000770008]
This study investigates the influence of host health on the taxa profile and behavior of microbial communities associated with the wood of 20-year-old grapevine plants through metatranscriptomics. The results show that this approach can better define the microbial community and the use of total RNA enables the identification of bacteria with potential biocontrol activities against wood-degrading fungi. Additionally, a large number of new viral species associated with a single environment and with potential impact on the entire holobiont were discovered.
The importance of plants as complex entities influenced by genomes of the associated microorganisms is now seen as a new source of variability for a more sustainable agriculture, also in the light of ongoing climate change. For this reason, we investigated through metatranscriptomics whether the taxa profile and behaviour of microbial communities associated with the wood of 20-year-old grapevine plants are influenced by the health status of the host. We report for the first time a metatranscriptome from a complex tissue in a real environment, highlighting that this approach is able to define the microbial community better than referenced transcriptomic approaches. In parallel, the use of total RNA enabled the identification of bacterial taxa in healthy samples that, once isolated from the original wood tissue, displayed potential biocontrol activities against a wood-degrading fungal taxon. Furthermore, we revealed an unprecedented high number of new viral entities (similar to 120 new viral species among 180 identified) associated with a single and limited environment and with potential impact on the whole holobiont. Taken together, our results suggest a complex multitrophic interaction in which the viral community also plays a crucial role in raising new ecological questions for the exploitation of microbial-assisted sustainable agriculture.
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