PRJNA729168
The Core Bacterial Microbiome of Musa spp.
This project was conducted to characterise the factors that influence the diversity and composition of bacteria associated with Musa spp. We identified that bacterial communities were different between plants grown in different soils and different plant compartments, but similar between different genotypes. We then defined a core microbiome that persisted through these factors. The presence of core taxa was then confirmed in an independent survey of 52 genotypes of field-grown plants.