Claim · model-written summary
Ant-handled seeds had different plant pathogen communities from non-ant-handled seeds.
- Taxon
- myrmecochorous plant speciese1
- Treatment
- Ant‐handled seedse0
- Interactor
- plant pathogene0pathogen
- Outcome
- plant pathogen communitiese0
- Direction
- differente0
- Comparator
- non‐ant‐handled seedse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Ant‐handled seeds harboured different overall fungal communities and plant pathogen communities than non‐ant‐handled seeds.”
t0“myrmecochore seed coat microbiomes and alters diversity of seed‐borne plant pathogenic fungi”
e1“We investigated the effects of ant handling on the diversity of seed coat fungal communities of three myrmecochorous plant species.”
e2“The myrmecochore pathogenic fungal community showed high dissimilarity (high pairwise community turnover) between ant‐handled and control seeds”
Title
Chloe L. Lash; Melissa A. Cregger; Anne M. Kinkopf; et al. Functional Ecology 2024. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14517
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Ant handling altered alpha diversity of seed coat fungal communities.
- Intervention effect Ant handling altered beta diversity of seed coat fungal communities.
- Intervention effect Ant-handled seeds had different overall fungal communities from non-ant-handled seeds.
- Intervention effect Pathogenic fungal communities differed strongly between ant-handled and control seeds.
- Intervention effect Beta diversity between ant-handled and elaiosome-removed seeds was less dissimilar.
- Mechanism Ant handling may reduce the seed coat pathogenic community.