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- Title
Forest Tree Microbiomes and Associated Fungal Endophytes: Functional Roles and Impact on Forest Health.
- Authors
Terhonen, Eeva; Blumenstein, Kathrin; Kovalchuk, Andriy; Asiegbu, Fred O.
- Abstract
Terrestrial plants including forest trees are generally known to live in close association with microbial organisms. The inherent features of this close association can be commensalism, parasitism or mutualism. The term "microbiota" has been used to describe this ecological community of plant-associated pathogenic, mutualistic, endophytic and commensal microorganisms. Many of these microbiota inhabiting forest trees could have a potential impact on the health of, and disease progression in, forest biomes. Comparatively, studies on forest tree microbiomes and their roles in mutualism and disease lag far behind parallel work on crop and human microbiome projects. Very recently, our understanding of plant and tree microbiomes has been enriched due to novel technological advances using metabarcoding, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics approaches. In addition, the availability of massive DNA databases (e.g., NCBI (USA), EMBL (Europe), DDBJ (Japan), UNITE (Estonia)) as well as powerful computational and bioinformatics tools has helped to facilitate data mining by researchers across diverse disciplines. Available data demonstrate that plant phyllosphere bacterial communities are dominated by members of only a few phyla (Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes). In bulk forest soil, the dominant fungal group is Basidiomycota, whereas Ascomycota is the most prevalent group within plant tissues. The current challenge, however, is how to harness and link the acquired knowledge on microbiomes for translational forest management. Among tree-associated microorganisms, endophytic fungal biota are attracting a lot of attention for their beneficial health- and growth-promoting effects, and were preferentially discussed in this review.
- Subjects
ENDOPHYTIC fungi; ENDOMYCORRHIZAS; BIODIVERSITY; PLANT species; ENDOPHYTIC bacteria
- Publication
Forests (19994907), 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
1999-4907
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/f10010042