A survey of culturable fungal endophytes from festuca rubra subsp. pruinosa, a grass from Marine Cliffs, reveals a core microbiome

dc.contributor.authorPereira, Eric
dc.contributor.authorVázquez de Aldana, Beatriz R.
dc.contributor.authorSan Emeterio Garciandía, Leticia
dc.contributor.authorZabalgogeazcoa, Iñigo
dc.contributor.departmentInstitute on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Food Chain - ISFOODen
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-31T12:26:56Z
dc.date.available2019-07-31T12:26:56Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionPereira E, Vázquez de Aldana BR, San Emeterio L and Zabalgogeazcoa I (2019) A Survey of Culturable Fungal Endophytes From Festuca rubra subsp. pruinosa, a Grass From Marine Cliffs, Reveals a Core Microbiome. Front. Microbiol. 9:3321. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03321en
dc.description.abstractFestuca rubra subsp. pruinosa is a perennial grass that inhabits sea cliffs of the Atlantic coasts of Europe. In this unhospitable environment plants grow in rock crevices and are exposed to abiotic stress factors such as low nutrient availability, wind, and salinity. Festuca rubra subsp. pruinosa is a host of the fungal endophyte Epichloe festucae, which colonizes aerial organs, but its root mycobiota is unknown. The culturable endophytic mycobiota of FRP roots was surveyed in a set of 105 plants sampled at five populations in marine cliffs from the northern coast of Spain. In total, 135 different fungal taxa were identified, 17 of them occurred in more than 10% of plants and in two or more populations. Seven taxa belonging to Fusarium, Diaporthe, Helotiales, Drechslera, Slopeiomyces, and Penicillium appeared to be constituents of the core microbiome of Festuca rubra subsp. pruinosa roots because they occurred in more than 20% of the plants analyzed, and at three or more populations. Most fungal strains analyzed (71.8%) were halotolerant. The presence of Epichloe festucae in aboveground tissue was detected in 65.7% of the plants, but its presence did not seem to significantly affect the structure of the core or other root microbiota, when compared to that of plants free of this endophyte. When plants of the grass Lolium perenne were inoculated with fungal strains obtained from Festuca rubra subsp. pruinosa roots, a Diaporthe strain significantly promoted leaf biomass production under normal and saline (200 mM NaCI) watering regimes. These results suggest that the core mycobiome of Festuca rubra subsp. pruinosa could have a role in host plant adaptation, and might be useful for the improvement of agricultural grasses.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 676480. LS was funded through a Talent Recruitment grant from "Obra Social La Caixa-Fundacion CAN". We acknowledge support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI).en
dc.format.extent14 p.
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dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fmicb.2018.03321
dc.identifier.issn1664-302X
dc.identifier.urihttps://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/33786
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Microbiology, 9en
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03321
dc.rights© 2019 Pereira, Vázquez de Aldana, San Emeterio and Zabalgogeazcoa. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.en
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectMycobiomeen
dc.subjectDiaportheen
dc.subjectFusarium oxysporumen
dc.subjectEpichloeen
dc.subjectSalinityen
dc.subjectHalophyteen
dc.subjectGrassen
dc.titleA survey of culturable fungal endophytes from festuca rubra subsp. pruinosa, a grass from Marine Cliffs, reveals a core microbiomeen
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