Covariation of soil bacterial composition with plant rarity.
Rare and common plants are predicted to host different rhizospheric microbes. To evaluate this prediction, we used terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis to compare rhizospheric bacteria from eight native grass species whose local abundances in their natural ecosystem spanned a 15-fold range. We observed that locally rare versus common plants are associated with divergent bacterial communities.
Huguet
Valérie
V
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. Valerie.M.Huguet@rice.edu
Rudgers
Jennifer A
JA
D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D044822:Biodiversity; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D058441:Rhizosphere; D012988:Soil Microbiology
D004269:DNA, Bacterial