Bacterial endophyte communities of Shatangju mandarin and Shatian pomelo
Two-years old seedlings of HLB-tolerant Citrus maxima cv. Shatian (Shatian pomelo) and HLB-susceptible Citrus reticulate cv. Shatangju (Shatangju mandarin) were used as host plants for grafting with CLas-infected buds. Both leaf and root samples from CLas-infected plants were collected at 10 months after grafting and applied for 16S rDNA-based microbiome analyses.