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Bacterial Community Richness Shifts the Balance Between Volatile Organic Compound-mediated Microbe–pathogen and Microbe–plant Interactions by Waseem Raza; Jianing Wang; Alexandre Jousset; Ville-Petri Friman; Xinlan Mei; Shimei Wang; Zhong Wei; Qirong Shen is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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Even though bacteria are important in determining plant growth and health via volatile organic compounds (VOCs), it is unclear how these beneficial effects emerge in multi-species microbiomes. Here we studied this using a model plant–bacteria system, where we manipulated bacterial community richness and composition and determined the subsequent effects on VOC production and VOC-mediated pathogen suppression and plant growth-promotion. We assembled VOC-producing bacterial communities in different richness levels ranging from one to 12 strains using three soil-dwelling bacterial genera ( Bacillus , Paenibacillus and Pseudomonas ) and investigated how the composition and richness of bacterial community affect the production and functioning of VOCs. We found that VOC production correlated positively with pathogen suppression and plant growth promotion and that all bacteria produced a diverse set of VOCs. However, while pathogen suppression was maximized at intermediate community richness levels when the relative amount and the number of VOCs were the highest, plant growth promotion was maximized at low richness levels and was only affected by the relative amount of plant growth-promoti
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- Author
- Waseem Raza; Jianing Wang; Alexandre Jousset; Ville-Petri Friman; Xinlan Mei; Shimei Wang; Zhong Wei; Qirong Shen
- Publisher
- The Royal Society (ISSN 0080-4649)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Life Sciences)