AUTHOR=Amacker Nathalie , Gao Zhilei , Agaras Betina C. , Latz Ellen , Kowalchuk George A. , Valverde Claudio F. , Jousset Alexandre , Weidner Simone TITLE=Biocontrol Traits Correlate With Resistance to Predation by Protists in Soil Pseudomonads JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=11 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.614194 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2020.614194 ISSN=1664-302X ABSTRACT=
Root-colonizing bacteria can support plant growth and help fend off pathogens. It is clear that such bacteria benefit from plant-derived carbon, but it remains ambiguous why they invest in plant-beneficial traits. We suggest that selection via protist predation contributes to recruitment of plant-beneficial traits in rhizosphere bacteria. To this end, we examined the extent to which bacterial traits associated with pathogen inhibition coincide with resistance to protist predation. We investigated the resistance to predation of a collection of