bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/261602; this version posted February 7, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.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. 1 In situ relationships between microbiota and potential pathobiota in Arabidopsis thaliana 2 Claudia Bartoli1¶, Léa Frachon1¶, Matthieu Barret2, Mylène Rigal1, Carine Huard-Chauveau1, 3 Baptiste Mayjonade1, Catherine Zanchetta3, Olivier Bouchez3, Dominique Roby1, Sébastien 4 Carrère1, Fabrice Roux1* 5 6 Affiliations: 7 1 LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France 8 2 IRHS, INRA, AGROCAMPUS-Ouest, Université d’Angers, SFR4207 QUASAV, 42, rue 9 Georges Morel, 49071 Beaucouzé, France 10 3 INRA, GeT-PlaGe, Genotoul, Castanet-Tolosan, France 11 ¶These authors contributed equally to this work. 12 13 Corresponding author:
[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/261602; this version posted February 7, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.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. 14 ABSTRACT 15 A current challenge in microbial pathogenesis is to identify biological control agents that may 16 prevent and/or limit host invasion by microbial pathogens. In natura, hosts are often infected 17 by multiple pathogens. However, most of the current studies have been performed under 18 laboratory controlled conditions and by taking into account the interaction between a single 19 commensal species and a single pathogenic species.