Characterization of the<i>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</i>phycosphere reveals conserved features of the plant microbiota

Abstract Microscopic algae release organic compounds to the region immediately surrounding their cells, known as the phycosphere, constituting a niche for colonization by heterotrophic bacteria. These bacteria take up algal photoassimilates and provide beneficial functions to their host, in a process that resembles the establishment of microbial communities associated with the roots and rhizospheres of land plants. Here, we characterize the microbiota of the model algaChlamydomonas reinhardtiiand reveal extensive taxonomic and functional overlap with the root microbiota of land plants. Reconstitution experiments using synthetic communities derived fromC. reinhardtiiandArabidopsis thalianashow that phycosphere and root bacteria assemble into taxonomically equivalent communities on either host. We show that provision of diffusible metabolites is not sufficient for phycosphere community establishment, which additionally requires physical proximity to the host. Our data suggests that the microbiota of photosynthetic organisms, including green algae and flowering plants, assembles according to core ecological principles..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 20. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Durán, Paloma [VerfasserIn]
Flores-Uribe, José [VerfasserIn]
Wippel, Kathrin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Pengfan [VerfasserIn]
Guan, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Garrido-Oter, Ruben [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2021.03.04.433956

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XBI020077793