Université de Fribourg

The microbiome of the leaf surface of Arabidopsis protects against a fungal pathogen

Ritpitakphong, Unyarat ; Falquet, Laurent ; Vimoltust, Artit ; Berger, Antoine ; Métraux, Jean-Pierre ; L'Haridon, Floriane

In: New Phytologist, 2016, p. -

We have explored the importance of the phyllosphere microbiome in plant resistance in the cuticle mutants bdg (BODYGUARD) or lacs2.3 (LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID SYNTHASE 2) that are strongly resistant to the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea. The study includes infection of plants under sterile conditions, 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing of the phyllosphere microbiome, and isolation and high coverage...