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Thiergart, Thorsten, Duran, Paloma, Ellis, Thomas, Vannier, Nathan, Garrido-Oter, Ruben, Kemen, Eric ORCID: 0000-0002-7924-116X, Roux, Fabrice, Alonso-Blanco, Carlos ORCID: 0000-0002-4738-5556, Agren, Jon ORCID: 0000-0001-9573-2463, Schulze-Lefert, Paul and Hacquard, Stephane (2020). Root microbiota assembly and adaptive differentiation among European Arabidopsis populations. Nat. Ecol. Evol., 4 (1). S. 122 - 143. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP. ISSN 2397-334X

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Abstract

Across large spatial scales, climate is more important than soil conditions for plant adaptation and variation in root-associated filamentous eukaryotic communities. Factors that drive continental-scale variation in root microbiota and plant adaptation are poorly understood. We monitored root-associated microbial communities in Arabidopsis thaliana and co-occurring grasses at 17 European sites across 3 years. We observed strong geographic structuring of the soil biome, but not of the root microbiota. A few phylogenetically diverse and geographically widespread bacteria consistently colonized plant roots. Among-site and across-year similarity in microbial community composition was stronger for the bacterial root microbiota than for filamentous eukaryotes. In a reciprocal transplant between two A. thaliana populations in Sweden and Italy, we uncoupled soil from location effects and tested their contributions to root microbiota variation and plant adaptation. Community differentiation in plant roots was explained primarily by location for filamentous eukaryotes and by soil origin for bacteria, whereas host genotype effects were marginal. Strong local adaptation between the two A. thaliana populations was observed, with differences in soil properties and microbes of little importance for the observed magnitude of adaptive differentiation. Our results suggest that, across large spatial scales, climate is more important than soil conditions for plant adaptation and variation in root-associated filamentous eukaryotic communities, whereas soil properties are primary drivers of bacterial community differentiation in roots.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Thiergart, Thorsten UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Duran, Paloma UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ellis, Thomas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Vannier, Nathan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Garrido-Oter, Ruben UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kemen, Eric UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7924-116X UNSPECIFIED Roux, Fabrice UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Alonso-Blanco, Carlos UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4738-5556 UNSPECIFIED Agren, Jon UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9573-2463 UNSPECIFIED Schulze-Lefert, Paul UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hacquard, Stephane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-351397
DOI:	10.1038/s41559-019-1063-3
Journal or Publication Title:	Nat. Ecol. Evol.
Volume:	4
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 122 - 143
Date:	2020
Publisher:	NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	2397-334X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language LOCAL ADAPTATION; FLOWERING TIME; BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; THALIANA; PLANT; SELECTION; DIVERGENCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTE; DIVERSITY Multiple languages Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/35139