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Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study
The aerial surfaces of plants harbor diverse communities of microorganisms. The rising awareness concerning the potential roles of these phyllosphere microbiota for airborne pollutant remediation and plant growth promotion, advocates for a better understanding of their community structure and dynami...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6460055/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00675 |
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author | Espenshade, Jordan Thijs, Sofie Gawronski, Stanislaw Bové, Hannelore Weyens, Nele Vangronsveld, Jaco |
author_facet | Espenshade, Jordan Thijs, Sofie Gawronski, Stanislaw Bové, Hannelore Weyens, Nele Vangronsveld, Jaco |
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description | The aerial surfaces of plants harbor diverse communities of microorganisms. The rising awareness concerning the potential roles of these phyllosphere microbiota for airborne pollutant remediation and plant growth promotion, advocates for a better understanding of their community structure and dynamics in urban ecosystems. Here, we characterized the epiphytic microbial communities on leaves of Platanus × hispanica trees in the city centre of Hasselt (Belgium), and the nearby forest area of Bokrijk, Genk (Belgium). We compared the influences of season, site, and air pollutants concentration variations on the tree’s phyllosphere microbiome by determining the intra- and inter-individual variation in leaf bacterial communities. High-throughput amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene revealed large variation in the bacterial community structure and diversity throughout the years but also allowed to discriminate an environment effect on community assembly. Partial drivers for this environment effect on composition can be correlated with the huge differences in ultrafine particulate matter (UFP) and black carbon on the leaves. A change in bacterial community composition was noted for trees growing in the city center compared to the natural site, and also more human-associated genera were found colonizing the leaves from the city center. These integrated results offer an original and first insight in the Platanus phyllomicrobiota, which can offer new opportunities to use phyllosphere microorganisms to enhance air pollution degradation. |
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spelling | pubmed-64600552019-04-25 Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study Espenshade, Jordan Thijs, Sofie Gawronski, Stanislaw Bové, Hannelore Weyens, Nele Vangronsveld, Jaco Front Microbiol Microbiology The aerial surfaces of plants harbor diverse communities of microorganisms. The rising awareness concerning the potential roles of these phyllosphere microbiota for airborne pollutant remediation and plant growth promotion, advocates for a better understanding of their community structure and dynamics in urban ecosystems. Here, we characterized the epiphytic microbial communities on leaves of Platanus × hispanica trees in the city centre of Hasselt (Belgium), and the nearby forest area of Bokrijk, Genk (Belgium). We compared the influences of season, site, and air pollutants concentration variations on the tree’s phyllosphere microbiome by determining the intra- and inter-individual variation in leaf bacterial communities. High-throughput amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene revealed large variation in the bacterial community structure and diversity throughout the years but also allowed to discriminate an environment effect on community assembly. Partial drivers for this environment effect on composition can be correlated with the huge differences in ultrafine particulate matter (UFP) and black carbon on the leaves. A change in bacterial community composition was noted for trees growing in the city center compared to the natural site, and also more human-associated genera were found colonizing the leaves from the city center. These integrated results offer an original and first insight in the Platanus phyllomicrobiota, which can offer new opportunities to use phyllosphere microorganisms to enhance air pollution degradation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6460055/ /pubmed/31024477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00675 Text en Copyright © 2019 Espenshade, Thijs, Gawronski, Bové, Weyens and Vangronsveld. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Espenshade, Jordan Thijs, Sofie Gawronski, Stanislaw Bové, Hannelore Weyens, Nele Vangronsveld, Jaco Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study |
title | Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study |
title_full | Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study |
title_fullStr | Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study |
title_short | Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study |
title_sort | influence of urbanization on epiphytic bacterial communities of the platanus × hispanica tree leaves in a biennial study |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6460055/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00675 |
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