title: Restructuring of endophytic bacterial communities in grapevine yellows-diseased and recovered Vitis vinifera L. plants.
abstract: Length heterogeneity-PCR assays, combined with statistical analyses, highlighted that the endophytic bacterial community associated with healthy grapevines was characterized by a greater diversity than that present in diseased and recovered plants. The findings suggest that phytoplasmas can restructure the bacterial community by selecting endophytic strains that could elicit a plant defense response.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale, Sezione Patologia Vegetale, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bulgari
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Casati
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crepaldi
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Daffonchio
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Quaglino
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brusetti
authors.forename: Piero Attilio
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Bianco
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics; D044822:Biodiversity; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D059013:Microbial Consortia; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D027843:Vitis / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S