The Endophytic Plant Growth Promoting Methylobacterium oryzae CBMB20 Integrates and Persists into the Seed-Borne Endophytic Bacterial Community of Rice

Endophytic persistence of inoculated plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) involves interaction with the host and host’s indigenous endophytic bacterial communities. This study investigated Methylobacterium oryzae CBMB20 into rice endosphere together impact inoculation on diversity community structure root shoot endophytes in Oryza sativa L. spp. indica cv. IR29. Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis showed that M. was able to integrate persist without causing drastic shifts composition. The communities are very similar seeds IR29, suggesting most them seed-borne. uninoculated IR29 plants more diverse compared shoots terms richness indices. dominant T-RFs belong Microbacterium, Delftia, Pseudomonas, Xanthomonas Stenotrophomonas, Herbaspirillum, Enterobacter, Sphingomonas, as observed three restriction enzyme T-RFLP profiles. Bacterial clades identified Curtobacterium, were distinctly both communities, these groups also endosphere. could incorporate long-term antagonistic interactions its native microbiota.