Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Lineage overwhelms environmental conditions in determining rhizosphere bacterial community structure in a cosmopolitan invasive plant

  • Jennifer L. Bowen,
  • Patrick J. Kearns,
  • Jarrett E. K. Byrnes,
  • Sara Wigginton,
  • Warwick J. Allen,
  • Michael Greenwood,
  • Khang Tran,
  • Jennifer Yu,
  • James T. Cronin,
  • Laura A. Meyerson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00626-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Environmental factors often outweigh host heritable factors in structuring host-associated microbiomes. Here, Bowen et al. show that host lineage is crucial for determination of rhizosphere bacterial communities in Phragmites australis, a globally distributed invasive plant.