Influence of seed treatment on microbiota and development of winter wheat seedlings

Рожкова, Т. О.; Stankevych, S.V.; Matsyura, А. V.

doi:10.15421/2021_8

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Microbial community dispersal in sourdough

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Amelot

Segond

et al. 2021

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Understanding how microbes disperse in ecosystems is critical to understand the dynamics and evolution of microbial communities. However, microbial dispersal is difficult to study because of uncertainty about the vectors that may contribute to their migration. This applies to both microbial communities in natural and human-associated environments. Here, we studied microbial dispersal among French sourdoughs and flours used to make bread. Sourdough is a naturally fermented mixture of flour and water. It hosts a community of bacteria and yeasts whose origins are only partially known. We analyzed whether flour is a carrier of sourdough yeast and bacteria and studied whether microbial migration occurs between sourdoughs. The microbial community of a collection of 46 sourdough samples, as well as that of the flour from which each was made, was studied by 16S rDNA and ITS1 metabarcoding. No sourdough yeast species were detected in the flours. Sourdough lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were found in only five flour samples, and they did not have the same amplicon sequence variant (ASV) as found in the corresponding sourdough. The species shared between the sourdough and flour samples are commonly found on plants and are not known to be alive in sourdough. Thus, the flour microorganisms did not appear to grow in the sourdough microbial community. Dispersal between sourdoughs was also studied. Sourdoughs shared no yeast ASV, except in few cases where groups of three to five bakers shared some. These results suggest that there is little migration between sourdoughs, except in a few situations where bakers may exchange sourdough or be vectors of yeast dispersal themselves.

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Microbial community dispersal in sourdough

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Microbial community dispersal from wheat grains to sourdoughs: A contribution of participatory research

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Understanding microbial dispersal is critical to understand the dynamics and evolution of microbial communities. However, microbial dispersal is difficult to study because of uncertainty about their vectors of migration. This applies to both microbial communities in natural and human‐associated environments. Here, we studied microbial dispersal along the sourdoughs bread‐making chain using a participatory research approach. Sourdough is a naturally fermented mixture of flour and water. It hosts a community of bacteria and yeasts whose origins are only partially known. We analysed the potential of wheat grains and flour to serve as an inoculum for sourdough microbial communities using 16S rDNA and ITS1 metabarcoding. First, in an experiment involving farmers, a miller and bakers, we followed the microbiota from grains to newly initiated and propagated sourdoughs. Second, we compared the microbiota of 46 sourdough samples collected everywhere in France, and of the flour used for their back‐slopping. The core microbiota detected on the seeds, in the flour and in the sourdough was composed mainly of microbes known to be associated with plants and not living in sourdoughs. No sourdough yeast species were detected on grains and flours. Sourdough lactic acid bacteria were rarely found in flour. When they were, they did not have the same amplicon sequence variant (ASV) as found in the corresponding sourdough. However, the low sequencing depth for bacteria in flour did not allow us to draw definitive conclusion. Thus, our results showed that sourdough yeasts did not come from flour, and suggest that neither do sourdough LAB.

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Influence of seed treatment on microbiota and development of winter wheat seedlings

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References 19 publications

Microbial community dispersal in sourdough

Microbial community dispersal in sourdough

Microbial community dispersal from wheat grains to sourdoughs: A contribution of participatory research

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