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The Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis and Vessel-Occlusion Formation in Stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg Trees Induced by Wounding Treatments without Variation of Microbial Communities
As widely recognized, agarwood formation in Aquilaria trees is induced by external wounding. Because agarwood usually harbors specific microbes, the function of microbes in agarwood formation has been debated for almost a century. In this study, two wounding methods, the burning-chisel-drilling meth...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25530613 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms151223589 |
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author | Zhang, Zheng Wei, Jianhe Han, Xiaomin Liang, Liang Yang, Yun Meng, Hui Xu, Yanhong Gao, Zhihui |
author_facet | Zhang, Zheng Wei, Jianhe Han, Xiaomin Liang, Liang Yang, Yun Meng, Hui Xu, Yanhong Gao, Zhihui |
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description | As widely recognized, agarwood formation in Aquilaria trees is induced by external wounding. Because agarwood usually harbors specific microbes, the function of microbes in agarwood formation has been debated for almost a century. In this study, two wounding methods, the burning-chisel-drilling method (BCD) and the whole-tree agarwood-inducing method (Agar-Wit), were used under the non-contamination of environmental microorganisms. After pyrosequencing the small rRNA subunits of the wounds induced by the BCD and Agar-Wit, no substantial variation was observed either in fungal and bacterial enrichment and diversity or in the relative abundances of taxa. By contrast, significant variations in fungal and bacterial communities were detected following the partial tree pruning (PTP)-wounding. The wound-induced sesquiterpene biosynthesis and vessel-occlusion formation, however, were found to be similar in all types of wounded trunks. We thus infer that wounding in the absence of variations in microbial communities may induce agarwood formation. This result does not support the long-standing notion that agarwood formation depends on microbes. |
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spelling | pubmed-42847822015-01-21 The Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis and Vessel-Occlusion Formation in Stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg Trees Induced by Wounding Treatments without Variation of Microbial Communities Zhang, Zheng Wei, Jianhe Han, Xiaomin Liang, Liang Yang, Yun Meng, Hui Xu, Yanhong Gao, Zhihui Int J Mol Sci Article As widely recognized, agarwood formation in Aquilaria trees is induced by external wounding. Because agarwood usually harbors specific microbes, the function of microbes in agarwood formation has been debated for almost a century. In this study, two wounding methods, the burning-chisel-drilling method (BCD) and the whole-tree agarwood-inducing method (Agar-Wit), were used under the non-contamination of environmental microorganisms. After pyrosequencing the small rRNA subunits of the wounds induced by the BCD and Agar-Wit, no substantial variation was observed either in fungal and bacterial enrichment and diversity or in the relative abundances of taxa. By contrast, significant variations in fungal and bacterial communities were detected following the partial tree pruning (PTP)-wounding. The wound-induced sesquiterpene biosynthesis and vessel-occlusion formation, however, were found to be similar in all types of wounded trunks. We thus infer that wounding in the absence of variations in microbial communities may induce agarwood formation. This result does not support the long-standing notion that agarwood formation depends on microbes. MDPI 2014-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4284782/ /pubmed/25530613 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms151223589 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Zheng Wei, Jianhe Han, Xiaomin Liang, Liang Yang, Yun Meng, Hui Xu, Yanhong Gao, Zhihui The Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis and Vessel-Occlusion Formation in Stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg Trees Induced by Wounding Treatments without Variation of Microbial Communities |
title | The Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis and Vessel-Occlusion Formation in Stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg Trees Induced by Wounding Treatments without Variation of Microbial Communities |
title_full | The Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis and Vessel-Occlusion Formation in Stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg Trees Induced by Wounding Treatments without Variation of Microbial Communities |
title_fullStr | The Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis and Vessel-Occlusion Formation in Stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg Trees Induced by Wounding Treatments without Variation of Microbial Communities |
title_full_unstemmed | The Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis and Vessel-Occlusion Formation in Stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg Trees Induced by Wounding Treatments without Variation of Microbial Communities |
title_short | The Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis and Vessel-Occlusion Formation in Stems of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg Trees Induced by Wounding Treatments without Variation of Microbial Communities |
title_sort | sesquiterpene biosynthesis and vessel-occlusion formation in stems of aquilaria sinensis (lour.) gilg trees induced by wounding treatments without variation of microbial communities |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25530613 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms151223589 |
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