Is there foul play in the leaf pocket? The metagenome of floating fern Azolla reveals endophytes that do not fix N2 but may denitrify

New Phytologist

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 453-466

  Dijkhuizen, Laura W ^a   Brouwer, Paul ^a   Bolhuis, Henk ^a   Reichart, Gert Jan ^a   Koppers, Nils ^b   Huettel, Bruno ^c   Bolger, Anthony M ^d   Li, Fay Wei ^e,f   Cheng, Shifeng ^g   Liu, Xin ^g   Wong, Gane Ka Shu ^g,h   Pryer, Kathleen ^e   Weber, Andreas ^b   Bräutigam, Andrea ^b   Schluepmann, Henriette ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^g BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

15N isotope; Azolla; denitrification; ditch water microbiome; metagenome; N2 fixation; Nostoc; Rhizobiales

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; ENDOPHYTE; FERN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; GREENHOUSE GAS; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION;

AZOLLA; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; NOSTOC; RHIZOBIALES;

NITROGEN; OXYGEN; WATER;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOMASS; DENITRIFICATION; ENDOPHYTE; FERN; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NOSTOC; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOMASS; DENITRIFICATION; ENDOPHYTES; FERNS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NOSTOC; OXYGEN; PLANT LEAVES; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 85035311947     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14843     Document Type: Article

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