Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resource Use of the Mongolian Plateau & Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China.
Institute of Fundamental Sciences, College of Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand.
Genes (Basel). 2019 Jan 31;10(2):106. doi: 10.3390/genes10020106.
Metagenomics can be used to identify potential biocontrol agents for invasive species and was used here to identify candidate species for biocontrol of an invasive club moss in New Zealand. Profiles were obtained for collected from nine geographically disjunct locations in Northern New Zealand. These profiles were distinct from those obtained for the exotic club moss and the native club mosses and also collected in Northern New Zealand. Fungi and bacteria implicated elsewhere in causing plant disease were identified on plants of that exhibited signs of necrosis. Most notably, high densities of sequence reads from and were associated with some populations of but not . Since these bacteria are already in use as biocontrol agents elsewhere, further investigation into their potential as biocontrol of in New Zealand is suggested.
宏基因组学可用于鉴定入侵物种的潜在生物防治剂，本研究利用宏基因组学来鉴定新西兰入侵石松的生物防治候选物种。从新西兰北部九个地理位置不同的地点采集的样本进行了分析。这些样本与采集自新西兰北部的外来石松 和本地石松 的样本以及从新西兰北部采集的样本明显不同。在表现出坏死迹象的 植株上鉴定到了其他地方与植物病害有关的真菌和细菌。特别值得注意的是，与一些 种群相关的 和 序列读取的高密度，但与 无关。由于这些细菌已经在其他地方被用作生物防治剂，因此建议进一步研究它们在新西兰作为 生物防治剂的潜力。
