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Microbial Communities Accompanying Cultivated and Wild Boswellia sacra Trees

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Boswellia sacra has been studied with attention to the rhizosphere microbiota in its root zone. The current chapter discusses the bacterial and fungal rhizosphere communities living with both cultivated and wild B. sacra tree populations studied using next-generation sequencing approaches. The results revealed that Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were abundant in wild and cultivated populations, respectively. Furthermore, Actinobacteria were abundant in wild populations, and Proteobacteria and Acidobacteria were abundant in cultivated populations. Higher quantities of glucosidases, cellulases and IAA were found in cultivated than in wild tree rhizospheres.

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    Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Abdul Latif Khan, Sajjad Asaf & Ahmed Al-Rawahi

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Al-Harrasi, A., Khan, A.L., Asaf, S., Al-Rawahi, A. (2019). Microbial Communities Accompanying Cultivated and Wild Boswellia sacra Trees. In: Biology of Genus Boswellia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16725-7_8

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