Evaluating the lettuce metatranscriptome with MinION sequencing for future spaceflight food production applications

Healthy plants are vital for successful, long-duration missions in space, as they provide the crew with life support, food production, and psychological benefits. The microorganisms that associate with plant tissues play a critical role in improving plant health and production. To that end, we developed a methodology to investigate the transcriptional activities of the microbiome of red romaine lettuce, a key salad crop that was grown under International Space Station (ISS)-like conditions. Microbial transcripts enriched from host-microbe total RNA were sequenced using the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencing platform. Results show that this enrichment approach was highly reproducible and could be an effective approach for the on-site detection of microbial transcriptional activity. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of using metatranscriptomics of enriched microbial RNA as a potential method for on-site monitoring of the transcriptional activity of crop microbiomes, thereby helping to facilitate and maintain plant health for on-orbit space food production.

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

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NPJ microgravity - 7(2021), 1 vom: 17. Juni, Seite 22

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Haveman, Natasha J [VerfasserIn]
Khodadad, Christina L M [VerfasserIn]
Dixit, Anirudha R [VerfasserIn]
Louyakis, Artemis S [VerfasserIn]
Massa, Gioia D [VerfasserIn]
Venkateswaran, Kasthuri [VerfasserIn]
Foster, Jamie S [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 03.02.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41526-021-00151-x

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NLM326880550