Login Join Sitemap Contact us  


Research 
 
 
  Longitudinal transmission of bacterial and fungal communities from seed to seed in rice  
 
 
  Authours
 Hyun Kim1, Jongbum Jeon2ΆΣ, Kiseok Keith Lee1ΆΤ, and Yong-Hwan Lee1,2,3,4,5*
  Title  Longitudinal transmission of bacterial and fungal communities from seed to seed in rice
  Journal  , 2022 (5) ~
  Abstract
 Vertical transmission of microbes is crucial for the persistence of host-associated microbial communities. Although vertical transmission of seed microbes has been reported from diverse plants, ecological mechanisms and dynamics of microbial communities from parent to progeny remain scarce. Here we reveal the veiled ecological mechanism governing transmission of bacterial and fungal communities in rice across two consecutive seasons. We identify 29 bacterial and 34 fungal members transmitted across generations. Abundance-based regression models allow to classify colonization types of the microbes. We find that they are late colonizers dominating each community at the ripening stage. Ecological models further show that the observed temporal colonization patterns are affected by niche change and neutrality. Source-sink modeling reveals that parental seeds and stem endosphere are major origins of progeny seed microbial communities. This study gives empirical evidence for ecological mechanism and dynamics of bacterial and fungal communities as an ecological continuum during seed-to-seed transmission.
  Link
 
 
     
 
     
 
 
. About us
. Research
. Course
. News
. Board
. Sitelink
 
     
 
  Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Korea
Tel) +82-2-880-4674, +82-2-880-4684    Fax) +82-2-873-2317