Mining endophytic microbiome information from plant and animal transcriptome data

Abstract

Endophytic microorganisms play important physiological functions in plants and animals. In this paper, we developed a method to obtain endophytic microbiome information directly by analyzing transcriptome sequencing data files of plants and animals. Compared with the use of amplicon analysis or whole-genome sequencing of animal and plant tissues to analyze microbial composition information, this method can obtain endophytic microbiome information in addition to obtaining gene expression information of host plants and animals.