Zhengyuan Zhou, Ruiwen Hu, Yanmei Ni, Wei Zhuang, Zhiwen Luo, Weiming Huang, Qingyun Yan, Zhili He, Qiuping Zhong, Cheng Wang
Plant roots in soil host a repertoire of bacteria and fungi, whose ecological interactions could improve their functions and plant performance. However, the potential microbial interactions and underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown across the soil-mangrove root interface. We herein analyzed microbial intra- and inter-domain network topologies, keystone taxa, and interaction-related genes across four compartments (non-rhizosphere, rhizosphere, episphere, and endosphere) from a soil-mangrove root continuum, using amplicon and metagenome sequencing technologies...
2021: Frontiers in Microbiology