Herbaria preserve plant microbiota responses to environmental changes

Valeria Bianciotto; Marc-André Selosse; Florent Martos; Roland Marmeisse

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2021.11.012

Herbaria preserve plant microbiota responses to environmental changes

Trends Plant Sci. 2022 Feb;27(2):120-123. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.11.012. Epub 2021 Dec 18.

Authors

Valeria Bianciotto¹, Marc-André Selosse², Florent Martos³, Roland Marmeisse⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Viale Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italy.
² Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP39, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France; Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, ul. Wita Stwosza 59, Gdańsk, 80-308, Poland.
³ Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP39, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
⁴ Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Viale Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italy; Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP39, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France. Electronic address: roland.marmeisse@mnhn.fr.

PMID: 34933781
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.11.012

Abstract

Interaction between plants and their microbiota is a central theme to understand adaptation of plants to their environment. Considering herbaria as repositories of holobionts that preserved traces of ancient plant-associated microbial communities, we propose to explore these historical collections to evaluate the impact of long-lasting global changes on plant-microbiota interactions.

Keywords: ancient DNA; global changes; herbaria; holobionts; plant microbiota.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Microbiota*
Plants*