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The microbial complexes of soil, the rhizosphere, and the rhizoplane of the apogeotropic (coralloid) roots of cycad plants were comparatively studied. The aseptically prepared homogenates of the surface-sterilized coralloid roots did not contain bacterial microsymbiont, indicating that in the root tissues the symbiosis is a two-component one (plant–cyanobacteria). At the same time, associated bacteria belonging to different taxonomic groups were detected in increasing amounts in the cycad rhizoplane, rhizosphere, and the surrounding soil. The bacterial communities found in the cycad rhizoplane and the surrounding soil were dominated by bacteria from the genus Bacillus. The saprotrophic bacteria and fungi colonizing the cycad rhizosphere and rhizoplane were dominated by microorganisms capable of degrading the plant cell walls. The local degradation of the cell wall was actually observed on the micrographs of the thin sections of cycad roots in the form of channels through which symbiotic cyanobacterial filaments can penetrate into the cortical parenchyma.
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Lobakova, E.S., Orazova, M.K. & Dobrovol'skaya, T.G. Microbial Complexes Occurring on the Apogeotropic Roots and in the Rhizosphere of Cycad Plants. Microbiology 72, 628–633 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026015921930
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