Claim · model-written summary
Canonical correspondence analysis identified electrical conductivity, Na2O, K2O and carbonate fractions as the main abiotic drivers.
- Taxon
- native halophytese0
- Treatment
- electrical conductivity (EC), Na₂O, K₂O, and carbonate fractionse3
- Outcome
- main abiotic driverse3
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Verbatim
e0“bacterial communities of native halophytes”
e3“Canonical correspondence analysis identified electrical conductivity (EC), Na₂O, K₂O, and carbonate fractions as the main abiotic drivers”
Title
Ghita Amechatte; Nabil Radouane; Ayoub El Mouttaqi; et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2026. doi:10.1128/aem.00061-26
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- Association Alpha diversity declined progressively from bulk soil to rhizosphere soil, root and shoot.
- Association Beta diversity showed clear compartmental separation driven by environmental factors.
- Observation Bacterial communities converged toward a stable halophilic core dominated by Halomonas, Kushneria and Marinococcus across plant species.
- Observation 66% of amplicon sequencing variants were shared across compartments.
- Observation Host identity played a secondary role, as environmental filtering overshadowed host-specific associations.
- Observation Culture-dependent isolation recovered 19 halophilic and halotolerant bacterial strains.
- Observation The isolates grew robustly on saline Marine Agar, indicating strong salt tolerance.
- Observation The cultured isolates and the metabarcoding profile showed strong concordance.
- Mechanism Sabkha plant microbiomes are primarily shaped by deterministic abiotic filtering.