Endophytic Microbiome of Vitis vinifera

The aim of this work was to determine the origin of the microbial endophytes inhabiting grapevine. We focused on a single commercial vineyard in California over a two-year period and used an amplicon metagenomics approach to profile the bacterial (16S -V4) and fungal (ITS) communities of the microbiome across a continuum of six grapevine compartments; bulk soil, rhizosphere, root, cordon, cane and sap.