Clonal Plants as Meta-Holobionts

The holobiont concept defines a given organism and its associated symbionts as a potential level of selection over evolutionary time. In clonal plants, recent experiments demonstrated vertical transmission of part of the microbiota from one ramet (i.e., potentially autonomous individual) to another...

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Main Authors: Nathan Vannier, Cendrine Mony, Anne-Kristel Bittebiere, Kevin R. Theis, Eugene Rosenberg, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-03-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00213-18