Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest that the Takakia microbiome may indicate features of early land plants.
- Outcome
- microbiome features of early land plantse0
- Qualifier
- remote locale not strongly influenced by human activitiese0
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Verbatim
e0“this study of plants of a remote locale not strongly influenced by human activities may indicate microbiome features of early land plants.”
t0“moss Takakia as Earth's most archaic modern land plant”
Title
Anchittha Satjarak; G. Karen Golinski; Marie T. Trest; et al. Scientific Reports 2022. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-10186-z
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation T. lepidozioides shares secretion of microbe harboring mucilage with streptophyte algae.
- Observation T. lepidozioides has bacterial taxa including Rhizobium.
- Observation T. lepidozioides has genes indicating nitrogen fixation.
- Observation Takakia root analogs produce lateral mucilage organs more complex than previously understood.
- Observation Takakia lateral mucilage organs contain intracellular microbes.
- Observation Takakia has structural and metagenomic evidence of mycorrhiza like glomalean fungi including Rhizophagus irregularis.
- Observation Takakia also has evidence of associated ascomycete fungi such as Rhizoscyphus ericae.