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Endophytic bacterial diversity in plants presents the level of interaction between culturable and non-culturable endophytic bacteria, thereby providing an appropriate insight into the endophytic environment. This study was conducted to determine the trend of culturable and non-culturable endophytic bacteria at two different sites encompassing four consecutive growth stages. For culturable endophytic bacteria, isolation was carried out using the dilution plate technique, and the obtained colonies were compared using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Different RFLP-types were identified to their nearest neighbour using 16S rRNA sequencing. The non-culturable endophytic bacterial diversity was obtained by next generation sequencing. Results suggested a similar trend among the culturable and non-culturable bacteria for observed operational taxonomic units and diversity indices. It is noticeable that the endophytic bacteria inhabiting in stage 1 disappeared, and instead, different endophytic bacteria appeared. Moreover, the temporal persistence of certain culturable and non-culturable bacteria was also observed. In conclusion, the endophytic bacterial diversity in cucumber initially increased with the plant growth and then decreased at a later stage. Furthermore, it was suggested that plants regulate the number and diversity of endophytes throughout the lifecycle of plants.
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This work was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [KAKENHI Grant Number 18H02319]. Ahmad Mahmood would like to express gratitude to the Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation for the scholarship. We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.jp) for English language editing.
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Mahmood, A., Takagi, K., Ito, K. et al. Changes in endophytic bacterial communities during different growth stages of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). World J Microbiol Biotechnol 35, 104 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-019-2676-z
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