Journal
MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
Volume 75, Issue 1, Pages 74-87Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-017-1020-0
Keywords
Arid land; Community structure; Endophyte diversity; Fungi
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- Research Training Program (RTP) scheme by Murdoch University, Australia
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In arid regions of northern Australia, plants survive under water deficit, high temperatures, intense solar radiation and nutrient-impoverished soils. They employ various morpho-physiological and biochemical adaptations including interaction with microbial symbionts. We evaluated identity, host and tissue association with geographical distribution of fungal endophytes isolated from above- and below-ground tissues of plants of three indigenous Australian Nicotiana species. Isolation frequency and alpha-diversity were significantly higher for root endophyte assemblages than those of stem and leaf tissues. We recorded no differences in endophyte species richness or diversity as a function of sampling location, but did detect differences among different host genotypes and plant tissues. There was a significant pattern of community similarity associated with host genotypes but no consistent pattern of fungal community structuring associated with sampling location and tissue type, regardless of the community similarity measurements used.
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