RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Defining the root endosphere and rhizosphere microbiomes from the World Olive Germplasm Collection
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 636530
DO 10.1101/636530
A1 Antonio J. Fernández-González
A1 Pablo J. Villadas
A1 Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás
A1 Antonio Valverde-Corredor
A1 Angjelina Belaj
A1 Jesús Mercado-Blanco
A1 Manuel Fernández-López
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/05/13/636530.abstract
AB Up to date, the bacterial and fungal microbial communities from the olive (Olea europaea L.) root systems have not been simultaneously studied. In this work, we show that microbial communities from the olive root endosphere are less diverse than those from the rhizosphere. But more relevant was to unveil that olive belowground communities are mainly shaped by the genotype of the cultivar when growing under the same environmental, pedological and agronomic conditions. Furthermore, Actinophytocola, Streptomyces and Pseudonocardia are the most abundant bacterial genera in the olive root endosphere, Actinophytocola being the most prevalent genus by far. In contrast, Gp6, Gp4, Rhizobium and Sphingomonas are the main genera in the olive rhizosphere. Canalisporium, Aspergillus, Minimelanolocus and Macrophomina are the main fungal genera present in the olive root system. Interestingly enough, a high proportion of so far unclassified fungal sequences at class level were detected in the rhizosphere. From the belowground microbial profiles here reported, it can be concluded that the genus Actinophytocola may play an important role in olive adaptation to environmental stresses. Moreover, the huge unknown fungal diversity suggests that there are still some fungi with important ecological and biotechnological implications that have yet to be discovered.