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Desert-Derived Tomato Salt Stress SynCom5

Community ID CommunityMech:000096
Ecological State ENGINEERED
Environment rhizosphere
ENVO:00005801

A five-member desert-root bacterial SynCom that protects tomato plants from high salt stress in non-sterile soil.

Taxonomy

Taxon Ontology ID Functional Roles Abundance
desert root bacterial SynCom members NCBITaxon:2
CROSS_FEEDER
N/A
  • PMID:35444261 - SUPPORT (IN_VITRO)
    "Here we show that a SynCom of five bacterial strains, originating from the root of the desert plant Indigofera argentea, protected tomato plants growing in a non-sterile substrate against a high salt stress."

Ecological Interactions

Ecological interaction network for Desert-Derived Tomato Salt Stress SynCom5 Bipartite graph where circle nodes represent taxa and colored rectangles represent ecological interactions (cross-feeding, mutualism, syntrophy, competition, commensalism).
Taxon
Cross-feeding
Mutualism
Syntrophy
Competition
Commensalism
Niche partitioning
Colonization facilitation
Strain competition
Predation

Desert Microbiome Salt Protection

MUTUALISM

Evidence

  • PMID:35444261 - SUPPORT (IN_VITRO)
    "Here we show that a SynCom of five bacterial strains, originating from the root of the desert plant Indigofera argentea, protected tomato plants growing in a non-sterile substrate against a high salt stress."

Environmental Factors

Factor Value Unit
defined synthetic community design Five bacterial strains originating from the root of Indigofera argentea were assembled into a SynCom. N/A
  • PMID:35444261 - SUPPORT (IN_VITRO)
    "Here we show that a SynCom of five bacterial strains, originating from the root of the desert plant Indigofera argentea, protected tomato plants growing in a non-sterile substrate against a high salt stress."