An Integrative View of the Phyllosphere Mycobiome of Native Rubber Trees in the Brazilian Amazon
2022
Paula Luize Camargos Fonseca | Demetra Skaltsas | Felipe Ferreira da Silva | Rodrigo Bentes Kato | Giovanni Marques de Castro | Glen Jasper Yupanqui García | Gabriel Quintanilha-Peixoto | Thairine Mendes-Pereira | Anderson Oliveira do Carmo | Eric Roberto Guimarães Rocha Aguiar | Daniel Santana de Carvalho | Diogo Henrique Costa-Rezende | Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos | Fernanda Badotti | Alice Ferreira-Silva | Guilherme Oliveira | Priscila Chaverri | Aline Bruna Martins Vaz | Aristóteles Góes-Neto
The rubber tree, <i>Hevea brasiliensis</i>, is a neotropical Amazonian species. Despite its high economic value and fungi associated with native individuals, in its original area in Brazil, it has been scarcely investigated and only using culture-dependent methods. Herein, we integrated in silico approaches with novel field/experimental approaches and a case study of shotgun metagenomics and small RNA metatranscriptomics of an adult individual. Scientific literature, host fungus, and DNA databases are biased to fungal taxa, and are mainly related to rubber tree diseases and in non-native ecosystems. Metabarcoding retrieved specific phyllospheric core fungal communities of all individuals, adults, plantlets, and leaves of the same plant, unravelling hierarchical structured core mycobiomes. Basidiomycotan yeast-like fungi that display the potential to produce antifungal compounds and a complex of non-invasive ectophytic parasites (Sooty Blotch and Flyspeck fungi) co-occurred in all samples, encompassing the strictest core mycobiome. The case study of the same adult tree (previously studied using culture-dependent approach) analyzed by amplicon, shotgun metagenomics, and small RNA transcriptomics revealed a high relative abundance of insect parasite-pathogens, anaerobic fungi and a high expression of <i>Trichoderma</i> (a fungal genus long reported as dominant in healthy wild rubber trees), respectively. Altogether, our study unravels new and intriguing information/hypotheses of the foliar mycobiome of native <i>H. brasiliensis</i>, which may also occur in other native Amazonian trees.
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