Root-associated bacterial communities play a vital role in maintaining health of the plant
host. These communities exist in complex relationships, where composition and abundance …

Rare species are increasingly recognized as crucial, yet vulnerable components of Earth's
ecosystems. This is also true for microbial communities, which are typically composed of a …

Anthropogenic climate change threatens ecosystem functioning. Soil biodiversity is essential
for maintaining the health of terrestrial systems, but how climate change affects the richness …

Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …

Like all higher organisms, plants have evolved in the context of a microbial world, sha**
both their evolution and their contemporary ecology. Interactions between plant roots and …

While interactions between roots and microorganisms have been intensively studied, we
know little about interactions among root‐associated microbes. We used random matrix …

Plants are hosts to complex communities of endophytic bacteria that colonize the interior of
both below-and aboveground tissues. Bacteria living inside plant tissues as endophytes can …

The active bacterial rhizobiomes and root exudate profiles of phytometers of six plant
species growing in central European temperate grassland communities were investigated in …

Background The plant compartments of Vitis vinifera, including the rhizosphere, rhizoplane,
root endosphere, phyllosphere and carposphere, provide unique niches that drive specific …

The rhizosphere is a hotspot for microbial carbon transformations, and is the entry point for
root polysaccharides and polymeric carbohydrates that are important precursors to soil …