Claim · model-written summary
Healthy oats had higher bacterial diversity, especially in spikes and stems.
- Taxon
- oats
Avena sativat0 - Organ / stage
- spikes and stemse0
- Outcome
- bacterial diversitye0
- Direction
- highere0
UstilagoVerbatim
t0“oats”
t1“Ustilago”
e0“higher bacterial diversity in healthy oats, particularly in the spikes and stems”
Title
Microbial community differences between healthy and Ustilago-infected oats
Chao Cheng; Songhe Xu; Zhiguo Liu; et al. Genomics 2026. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2026.111202
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Diseased oats showed significant microbial community shifts across all tissues.
- Observation Healthy oat microbiomes were dominated by beneficial bacteria including Exiguobacterium indicum.
- Observation Infected oats were largely colonized by Ustilago hordei.
- Observation Infected oats were largely colonized by Pyrenophora chaetomioides.
- Observation Infected oats were largely colonized by Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens.
- Observation Predicted enriched microbial pathways mainly involved metabolism, then genetic information processing and environmental signal transduction.
- Observation Malondialdehyde content was significantly lower in most healthy oat tissues than in infected oats.
- Observation Superoxide dismutase and peroxidase activities were markedly higher in healthy oat tissues than in infected oats.
- Mechanism The authors infer that Ustilago infection caused oxidative membrane damage and weakened scavenging of superoxide ions and hydrogen peroxide.
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