Claim · model-written summary
Aerial-root mucilage was enriched in carbohydrates.
- Taxon
- Heterotis rotundifolia
Heterotis rotundifoliae1 - Organ / stage
- aerial root mucilagee0
- Outcome
- carbohydratese0
- Direction
- enriched ine0
Verbatim
e0“Metabolite and microbiota profiling showed that the aerial root mucilage is enriched in carbohydrates and diazotrophic bacteria.”
e1“using pink lady ( Heterotis rotundifolia ) as a study plant”
Title
Microbiota-mediated nitrogen fixation and microhabitat homeostasis in aerial root-mucilage
Zhiqiang Pang; Xinyu Mao; Shaoqun Zhou; et al. Microbiome 2023. doi:10.1186/s40168-023-01525-x
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Aerial-root mucilage was enriched in diazotrophic bacteria.
- Mechanism The aerial-root mucilage microbiota fixed atmospheric nitrogen and supported plant growth.
- Observation Other environmental and pathogenic microbes were not highly abundant inside the mucilage.
- Observation A fungus isolated from the mucilage had broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity.
- Observation The mucilage fungus allowed growth of diazotrophic bacteria.
- Mechanism The authors propose the fungus as a key driver of sustained mucilage nitrogen fixation.