Functional Signatures of the Epiphytic Prokaryotic Microbiome of Agaves and Cacti.

ABSTRACT: Microbial symbionts account for survival, development, fitness and evolution of eukaryotic hosts. These microorganisms together with their host form a biological unit known as holobiont. Recent studies have revealed that the holobiont of agaves and cacti comprises a diverse and structured microbiome, which might be important for its adaptation to drylands. Here, we investigated the functional signatures of the prokaryotic communities of the soil and the episphere, that includes the rhizosphere and phyllosphere, associated with the cultivated Agave tequilana and the native and sympatric Agave salmiana, Opuntia robusta and Myrtillocactus geometrizans by mining shotgun metagenomic data. Consistent with previous phylogenetic profiling, we found that Proteobacteria, Actinob

SUBMITTER: Flores-Nunez VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6978686 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature