Endophytic bacterial Metagenome. Bacteria

The study aimed to explore the endophytic bacterial communities and their dynamics in pre-flowering and post-flowering seasons in the horticulturally important Mango (Mangifera indica L.) and its hemiparasites Loranthus sp., and Macrosolen sp. The pathogenicity development in the mango plants may cause production loss and leads to the financial disaster. In the post-flowering season, the mango plants possess a lower number of endophytes. However, in the summer and rainy seasons i.e., pre-flowering season, the higher abundance of endophytic community was among which endophytic population may develop pathogenicity and leads to crop loss. In this concern, it can be suggested that removal of these two hemiparasites from the mango plants before the summer may reduce the probability of disease induction during fruit setting and ripening of fruit by the potential quiescent pathogens that reside in the hemiparasite plants.