Affiliation:
1. Agriculture & Agri‐Food Canada Kentville Research and Development Centre Kentville Nova Scotia Canada
2. Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture Dalhousie University Truro Nova Scotia Canada
3. Grain Legume Genetics and Physiology Research Unit USDA, ARS Prosser Washington USA
Abstract
AbstractThe maintenance of the beneficial plant microbiome to control plant pathogens is an emerging concept of disease management, and necessitates a clear understanding of these microbial communities and the environmental factors that affect their diversity and compositional structure. As such, studies investigating the microbiome of economically significant cultivars within each growing region are necessary to develop adequate disease management strategies. Here, we assessed the relative impacts of growing season, management strategy, and geographical location on the fungal microbiome of ‘Honeycrisp’ apples from seven different orchard locations in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone for two consecutive growing years. Though apple fruit tissue was dominated by relatively few fungal genera, significant changes in their fungal communities were observed as a result of environmental factors, including shifts in genera with plant‐associated lifestyles (symbionts and pathogens), such as Aureobasidium, Alternaria, Penicillium, Diplodia, and Mycosphaerella. Variation in fungal composition between different tissues of fruit was also observed. We demonstrate that growing season is the most significant factor affecting fungal community structure and diversity of apple fruit, suggesting that future microbiome studies should take place for multiple growing seasons to better represent the host–microbiome of perennial crops under different environmental conditions.
Subject
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Biochemistry,Bioengineering,Biotechnology
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