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The study of the root-associated microbial complexes of affected and healthy rose plants of two cultivars (Grand gala and Royal velvet) grown in a greenhouse showed that the biomass of eukaryotic microorganisms in the rhizoplane and rhizosphere of healthy rose plants and in the surrounding soil was considerably lower than in the same loci of affected plants. In contrast, the biomass of root-associated prokaryotic microorganisms was higher in the case of healthy than in the case of affected rose plants. The root-associated bacterial complexes of both affected and healthy rose plants were dominated by the genera Arthrobacter, Rhodococcus, and Myxobacterium and did not contain phytopathogenic bacteria. The root-associated fungal complex of healthy roses was dominated by fungi of the genus Trichoderma, whereas that of the affected rose plants was dominated by the species Aureobasidium microstictum. The affected cane cuttings and cankers occurring on affected canes were found to contain Coniothyrium fuckelii (the causal fungus of rose stem canker) and sclerotia of Botrytis cinerea (the causal fungus of gray rot). The micromycete complex of healthy rose plants was not so diverse as was the micromycete complex of affected rose plants.
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Polyanskaya, L.M., Ozerskaya, S.M., Kochkina, G.A. et al. The Abundance and Structure of the Root-Associated Microbial Complexes of Two Greenhouse Rose Cultivars. Microbiology 72, 496–502 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025061210599
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