Arne Sinnesael

KU Leuven | ku leuven · Department of Biology

Organisms are increasingly facing multiple, potentially interacting stressors in natural populations. The ability of populations coping with combined stressors depends on their tolerance to individual stressors and how stressors interact, which may not be correctly captured in controlled laboratory settings. One largely unexplored reason for this i...

BACKGROUND & AIMS: The bacterial leaf nodule symbiosis is an interaction where bacteria are housed in specialised structures in the leaves of their plant host. In the Rubiaceae plant family, host plants interact with Burkholderia bacteria. This interaction might play a role in the host plant defence system. It is unique due to its high specificity;...

Background and aims The bacterial leaf nodule symbiosis is a close interaction between endophytes and their plant hosts, mainly within the coffee family. The interaction between Rubiaceae species and Burkholderia bacteria is unique due to its obligate nature, high specificity, and predominantly vertical transmission of the endophytes to the next ge...

In situ detection of Burkholderia endophytes in longitudinal sections of the three additional P. punctata embryos using FISH. (A) Merged epifluorescence images of the outer space of the embryo in close proximity of the cotyledons, showing FISH-labelled endophyte (red, arrow). (B) Same detail as (A), stained with TBO after FISH labelling. (C) Merged...

Detailed information on the identification of the endophytes in the different plant structures of Psychotria punctata. List of the detected endophytes, the plant structure from which their DNA was extracted, host plant acquisition numbers of the living collection at the Botanic Garden Meise (BGM), the identity of the endophytes on species level, Ge...