Host species shape the community structure of culturable endophytes in fruits of wild berry species (<em>Vaccinium myrtillus</em> L., <em>Empetrum nigrum</em> L. and <em>Vaccinium vitis-idaea</em> L.)
Nguyen, Minh-Phuong; Lehosmaa, Kaisa; Martz, Françoise; Koskimäki, Janne J.; Pirttilä, Anna Maria; Häggman, Hely (2021-07-12)
Minh-Phuong Nguyen, Kaisa Lehosmaa, Françoise Martz, Janne J Koskimäki, Anna Maria Pirttilä, Hely Häggman, Host species shape the community structure of culturable endophytes in fruits of wild berry species (Vaccinium myrtillus L., Empetrum nigrum L. and Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.), FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 97, Issue 8, August 2021, fiab097, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab097
© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of FEMS. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021092747154
Tiivistelmä
Abstract
Wild berries are interesting research subjects due to their rich sources of health-beneficial phenolic compounds. However, the internal microbial communities, endophytes, associated with the wild berry fruits are currently unknown. Endophytes are bacteria or fungi inhabiting inside plant tissues, and their functions vary depending on the host species and environmental parameters. The present study aimed to examine community composition of fungal and bacterial endophytes in fruits of three wild berry species (bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus L., lingonberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. and crowberry Empetrum nigrum L.) and the effects of host plant species and their growth sites on shaping the endophytic communities. We found that the endophytic community structures differed between the berry species, and fungi were predominant over bacteria in the total endophytic taxa. We identified previously unknown endophytic fungal taxa including Angustimassarina, Dothidea, Fellozyma, Pseudohyphozyma, Hannaella coprosmae and Oberwinklerozyma straminea. A role of soluble phenolic compounds, the intracellular components in wild berry fruits, in shaping the endophytic communities is proposed. Overall, our study demonstrates that each berry species harbors a unique endophytic community of microbes.
Kokoelmat
- Avoin saatavuus [31935]