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Of Microbes and Melons: Contributions of the Floral Transmission Pathway to Early Seed Bacterial Community Assembly
Of Microbes and Melons: Contributions of the Floral Transmission Pathway to Early Seed Bac...
Of Microbes and Melons: Contributions of the Floral Transmission Pathway to Early Seed Bacterial Community Assembly

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202104637
ISBN  
9798290647739
DDC  
574.5
저자명  
Bergmann, Gillian Elene Koenig.
서명/저자  
Of Microbes and Melons: Contributions of the Floral Transmission Pathway to Early Seed Bacterial Community Assembly
발행사항  
[Sl] : University of California, Davis, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
155 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-01, Section: B.
주기사항  
Advisor: Leveau, Johan H. J.;Vannette, Rachel L.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약Seed-associated bacterial communities are a source of inoculum between plant generations. However, there is high variability in bacterial communities between seeds due to interacting ecological processes, making it difficult to discern their effects and predict community assembly outcomes. I posit that studying the transmission pathway between flowers and developing seeds will provide new insight into the bacterial community assembly of developing seeds. Using commercial watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) as a model, I tested the effects of multiple factors on this transmission pathway.In chapter 1, I conducted a literature review on the ecological processes potentially involved in microbial community assembly during seed development. Using metacommunity theory as a framework, I argued that the processes of selection, dispersal and drift act on seed microbial communities across spatial scales. I also advocated for future research that is spatially explicit and multi-scale, with emphasis on the effects of plant topography and chemistry on micro-scale processes, the role of animal vectors on macro-scale dispersal, and the interactions between processes.In chapter 2, I used field and lab studies to 1) compare the bacterial communities of stigmas and seeds of C. lanatus, 2), determine if bee pollination affects seed community composition, 3), test if stigma- and seed-associated bacteria can transmit from flowers to seeds, and 4) screen these bacteria for their impact on seed fitness. In a field survey, I found that 2-40% of seed-associated taxa were also detected on stigmas and that these bacteria made up 40.4% of the seed community. Using a field pollinator exclusion experiment, I found that honeybee visitation did not alter bacterial community composition in seeds. By inoculating stigma- and seed-isolated bacteria onto stigmas, I validated that strains could transmit to seeds. Finally, I found that inoculating such bacteria onto seeds had variable effects on watermelon seedling development. This work demonstrates that floral transmission makes important contributions to both the assembly and potential health impacts of bacterial communities in C. lanatus seeds.In chapter 3, I used inoculation experiments to test how the composition of bacterial synthetic communities (SynComs) inoculated on C. lanatus stigmas affected 1) bacterial transmission to seeds, 2) transmission of the pathogen Paracidovorax citrulli to seeds, and 3) fruit set rates. Through culturing, I found that individual bacterial strains had variable rates of floral transmission to seeds, and that floral transmission increased in SynComs with higher species richness. Through amplicon sequencing, I similarly found that the total relative abundance of florally transmitted SynCom strains increased in SynComs with higher richness. I also determined through sequencing and qPCR that P. citrulli transmission to seeds was reduced in SynCom inoculations compared to inoculation alone. Finally, I found that individual bacterial strains had variable effects on fruit set, and that SynCom inoculations had negligible effects on fruit set compared to inoculation alone. While this experiment had various design issues and technical limitations, it provides proof of concept for testing floral transmission with SynCom experiments, and I make recommendations for future SynCom experiments to better test how stigma community composition can be manipulated to prevent pathogen transmission and improve fruit development.
일반주제명  
Ecology
일반주제명  
Microbiology
일반주제명  
Plant sciences
일반주제명  
Agriculture
키워드  
Community assembly
키워드  
Floral transmission
키워드  
Microbial ecology
키워드  
Seed microbiota
기타저자  
University of California, Davis Ecology
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-01B.
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