Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Trends Plant Sci. 2022 Nov;27(11):1109-1123. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.06.007. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
The phyllosphere (i.e., the aerial parts of plants) harbors a rich microbial life, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and yeasts. Current knowledge of yeasts stems primarily from industrial and medical research on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans, both of which can be found on plant tissues. For most other yeasts found in the phyllosphere, little is known about their ecology and functions. Here, we explore the diversity, dynamics, interactions, and genomics of yeasts associated with plant leaves and how tools and approaches developed for model yeasts can be adopted to disentangle the ecology and natural functions of phyllosphere yeasts. A first genomic survey exemplifies that we have only scratched the surface of the largely unexplored functional potential of phyllosphere yeasts.
叶际（即植物的气生部分）栖息着丰富的微生物生命，包括细菌、真菌、病毒和酵母。目前对酵母的了解主要来自于工业和医学对酿酒酵母和白色念珠菌的研究，这两种酵母都可以在植物组织上找到。对于叶际中发现的大多数其他酵母，人们对它们的生态和功能知之甚少。在这里，我们探讨了与植物叶片相关的酵母的多样性、动态、相互作用和基因组学，以及如何采用为模式酵母开发的工具和方法来阐明叶际酵母的生态学和自然功能。首次基因组调查表明，我们只是触及了叶际酵母大部分尚未开发的功能潜力的表面。
