bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/608729; this version posted February 17, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. A suite of rare microbes interacts with a dominant, heritable, fungal endophyte to influence plant trait expression Joshua G. Harrison1, Lyra P. Beltran2, C. Alex Buerkle1, Daniel Cook3, Dale R. Gardner3, Thomas L. Parchman2, Simon R. Poulson4, Matthew L. Forister2 1Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA 2Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Program, Biology Department, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA 3Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, Logan, UT 84341, USA 4Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA Corresponding author: Joshua G. Harrison 1000 E. University Ave. Department of Botany, 3165 University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071, USA
[email protected] Keywords: endophytes, plant traits, Astragalus, locoweed, swainsonine, microbial ecology Running title: Endophytes affect plant traits Author contributions: JGH, LPB, and MLF conducted the field experiment. LPB and JGH performed culturing. JGH executed analyses. Analytical chemistry was conducted by DC and DRG. All authors contributed to experimental design and manuscript preparation. 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/608729; this version posted February 17, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.