Zuo Yiling, Li Xia, Yang Jingya, Liu Jiaqiang, Zhao Lili, He Xueli
School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China.
J Fungi (Basel). 2021 Jul 20;7(7):578. doi: 10.3390/jof7070578.
Despite desert ecosystem being crucial to our understanding of natural geography, species evolution and global climate change, there is limited information on the dynamics of their composition and the diversity of endophytic fungi communities driven by plant identity and organ differentiation. Here, an extensive investigation of endophytic fungal microbiome in root, stem, and leaf organs associated with five xerophyte shrubs in an extremely arid desert, Northwest China, were examined. The fungal community dominated by and . Shrub species strongly drive the niche-based processes of endophytic fungi across the root, stem and leaf compartments. The diversity and composition of endophytic fungi in stem showed higher variability among plant species than leaf and root. The fungal communities in root libraries were more diverse and exhibited a remarkable differentiation of community composition. We further demonstrated the significant host preferences and tissue specificity of desert endophytic fungi, and unique specific taxa were also observed. The co-occurrence network revealed the coexistence of fungal endophytes in arid desert, and the root fungal network harbored the highest interspecies connectivity. Members of were the most common keystone species in the root fungal network. This is the first report of mycobiota in both plant species and organ differentiation in an extremely arid desert ecosystem.
尽管沙漠生态系统对于我们理解自然地理、物种进化和全球气候变化至关重要,但关于其组成动态以及由植物身份和器官分化驱动的内生真菌群落多样性的信息有限。在此,我们对中国西北部极度干旱沙漠中与五种旱生灌木相关的根、茎和叶器官中的内生真菌微生物组进行了广泛调查。真菌群落以 和 为主。灌木物种强烈驱动了内生真菌在根、茎和叶各部分基于生态位的过程。茎中内生真菌的多样性和组成在植物物种间表现出比叶和根更高的变异性。根文库中的真菌群落更加多样,并且群落组成表现出显著分化。我们进一步证明了沙漠内生真菌显著的宿主偏好和组织特异性,还观察到了独特的特定分类群。共生网络揭示了干旱沙漠中内生真菌的共存,并且根真菌网络具有最高的种间连通性。 的成员是根真菌网络中最常见的关键物种。这是关于极度干旱沙漠生态系统中植物物种和器官分化的真菌群落的首次报告。