Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, Key Laboratory of State Ethnic Affairs Commission for Biological Technology, Center for the Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Resources, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China.
College of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinzhong, China.
PLoS One. 2020 Nov 19;15(11):e0242258. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242258. eCollection 2020.
Endophytic fungi play an important role in plant growth. The composition and structure of endophytes vary in different plant tissues, which are specific habitats for endophyte colonization. To analyze the diversity and structural composition of endophytic fungi from toothed clubmoss (Huperzia serrata) that was artificially cultivated for 3 years, we investigated endophytic fungi from the roots, stems and leaves using comparative sequence analysis of the ITS2 region of the fungal rRNA genes sequenced with high-throughput sequencing technology. Seven fungal phyla were identified, and fungal diversity and structure varied across different tissues, with the most distinctive community features found in the roots. A total of 555 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were detected, and 198 were common to all samples, and 43, 16, 16 OTUs were unique to the root, stem, leaf samples, respectively. Taxonomic classification showed that Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were dominant phyla, and Cladosporium, Oidiodendron, Phyllosticta, Sebacina and Ilyonectria were dominant genera. The relative abundance heat map at the genus level suggested that H. serrata had characteristic endophytic fungal microbiomes. Line discriminant analysis effect size analysis and principal coordinate analysis demonstrated that fungal communities were tissue-type and tissue-site specific. Overall, our study provides new insights into the complex composition of endophytic fungi in H. serrata.
内生真菌在植物生长中起着重要作用。内生菌的组成和结构在不同的植物组织中有所不同,这些组织是内生菌定殖的特定栖息地。为了分析人工栽培 3 年的齿牙鳞毛蕨(Huperzia serrata)内生真菌的多样性和结构组成,我们采用高通量测序技术对真菌 rRNA 基因 ITS2 区进行测序的比较序列分析,研究了内生真菌从根、茎和叶中的分布。鉴定出 7 个真菌门,不同组织的真菌多样性和结构不同,其中根的群落特征最为独特。共检测到 555 个操作分类单元(OTU),其中 198 个在所有样本中共同存在,43、16、16 个 OTU 分别是根、茎、叶样本所特有的。分类学分类表明,子囊菌门和担子菌门是主要的门,而半知菌属、寡雄霉属、叶点霉属、Sebacina 和 Ilyonectria 是主要的属。属水平的相对丰度热图表明,H. serrata 具有特征性的内生真菌微生物组。线判别分析效应量分析和主坐标分析表明,真菌群落是组织类型和组织部位特异性的。总的来说,我们的研究为齿牙鳞毛蕨内生真菌的复杂组成提供了新的见解。