Zhu Hongjuan, Zeng Wending, Chen Manman, He Dan, Cheng Xialan, Yu Jing, Liu Ya, Wu Yougen, Yang Dongmei
School of Breeding and Multiplication (Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication), Hainan University, Sanya 572025, China.
School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Danzhou 571737, China.
Plants (Basel). 2024 Feb 29;13(5):685. doi: 10.3390/plants13050685.
Microbial communities are an important component of mangrove ecosystems. In order to reveal the diversity of endophytic fungi in the mangrove ferns and in China, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of endophytic fungi in four plant tissues (leaves, petioles, roots, and rhizomes) from three locations (Zhanjiang, Haikou, and Wenchang) were sequenced. The richness, species composition, and community similarity were analyzed. The main results are as follows: the dominant fungi in and belonged to the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, accounting for more than 75% of the total identified fungi; in terms of species composition at the operational taxonomic unit (OTU) level, the endophytic fungi in were more diverse than those in , and the endophytic fungi in rhizomes were more diverse than in other tissues. In Zhanjiang, both and showed the richest diversity of endophytic fungi, both at the OTU classification level and in terms of species composition. Conversely, the richness of endophytic fungi in the samples of from Wenchang and Haikou is extremely low. The regional differences in dominant fungi increase with the degrading of taxonomic levels, and there were also significant differences in the number of unique fungi among different origins, with Zhanjiang samples having a larger number of unique fungi than the other locations. There were significant differences in the dominant fungi among different tissues, with Xylariales being the dominant fungi in rhizomes of and Hypocreales being the dominant fungi in the petioles, roots, and rhizomes of . Overall, the community similarity of endophytic fungi among locations is moderately dissimilar (26-50%), while the similarity between tissues is moderately similar (51-75%). The low diversity of endophytic fungi could be one of the main reasons for the endangerment of . The protection of the diversity of endophytic fungi in the underground parts of is essential for the conservation of this critically endangered mangrove fern.
微生物群落是红树林生态系统的重要组成部分。为揭示中国红树林蕨类植物内生真菌的多样性,对来自湛江、海口和文昌三个地点的四种植物组织(叶、叶柄、根和根茎)中的内生真菌的内转录间隔区(ITS)进行了测序。分析了其丰富度、物种组成和群落相似性。主要结果如下:中国红树林蕨类植物中的优势真菌属于子囊菌门和担子菌门,占已鉴定真菌总数的75%以上;在操作分类单元(OTU)水平上的物种组成方面,中国红树林蕨类植物中的内生真菌比其他地区的更具多样性,根茎中的内生真菌比其他组织中的更具多样性。在湛江,中国红树林蕨类植物和其他地区的内生真菌在OTU分类水平和物种组成方面均表现出最丰富的多样性。相反,文昌和海口的中国红树林蕨类植物样本中的内生真菌丰富度极低。优势真菌的区域差异随着分类水平的降低而增加,不同来源的独特真菌数量也存在显著差异,湛江样本中的独特真菌数量比其他地点的多。不同组织中的优势真菌存在显著差异,炭角菌目是中国红树林蕨类植物根茎中的优势真菌,肉座菌目是其他地区叶、根和根茎中的优势真菌。总体而言,不同地点内生真菌的群落相似性为中度不相似(26 - 50%),而不同组织之间的相似性为中度相似(51 - 75%)。内生真菌的低多样性可能是中国红树林蕨类植物濒危的主要原因之一。保护中国红树林蕨类植物地下部分内生真菌的多样性对于保护这种极度濒危的红树林蕨类植物至关重要。