The soil plastisphere

MC Rillig, SW Kim, YG Zhu - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024‏ - nature.com
Understanding the effects of plastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems is a priority in
environmental research. A central aspect of this suite of pollutants is that it entails particles …

Priority effects in microbiome assembly

R Debray, RA Herbert, AL Jaffe… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Advances in next-generation sequencing have enabled the widespread measurement of
microbiome composition across systems and over the course of microbiome assembly …

Core species impact plant health by enhancing soil microbial cooperation and network complexity during community coalescence

Y Qiao, T Wang, Q Huang, H Guo, H Zhang… - Soil Biology and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities mix and interact, a widespread phenomenon known as
community coalescence. However, in the context of different coalescence degrees, the …

Microbial community resilience across ecosystems and multiple disturbances

L Philippot, BS Griffiths… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2021‏ - journals.asm.org
The ability of ecosystems to withstand disturbances and maintain their functions is being
increasingly tested as rates of change intensify due to climate change and other human …

Microbial necromass in soils—linking microbes to soil processes and carbon turnover

M Kästner, A Miltner, S Thiele-Bruhn… - … in Environmental Science, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The organic matter of living plants is the precursor material of the organic matter stored in
terrestrial soil ecosystems. Although a great deal of knowledge exists on the carbon turnover …

[HTML][HTML] The physical structure of soil: determinant and consequence of trophic interactions

A Erktan, D Or, S Scheu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Trophic interactions play a vital role in soil functioning and are increasingly considered as
important drivers of the soil microbiome and biogeochemical cycles. In the last decade …

Diversity and biogeography of bacterial community in the Ili River network varies locally and regionally

J Geng, W Zhang, S Liang, N Xue, W Song, Y Yang - Water Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Microorganisms in rivers indeed play a crucial role in nutrient cycling within aquatic
ecosystems. Understanding the assembly mechanisms of bacterial communities in river …

Exploring rhizo-microbiome transplants as a tool for protective plant-microbiome manipulation

G Jiang, Y Zhang, G Gan, W Li, W Wan… - ISME …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
The development of strategies for effectively manipulating and engineering beneficial plant-
associated microbiomes is a major challenge in microbial ecology. In this sense, the efficacy …

Successive passaging of a plant-associated microbiome reveals robust habitat and host genotype-dependent selection

NM Morella, FCH Weng, PM Joubert… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
There is increasing interest in the plant microbiome as it relates to both plant health and
agricultural sustainability. One key unanswered question is whether we can select for a plant …

Soil microbial diversity plays an important role in resisting and restoring degraded ecosystems

A Pedrinho, LW Mendes, AP de Araujo Pereira… - Plant and Soil, 2024‏ - Springer
Background Land degradation and climate change pose serious threats to global
biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. The key role of plant diversity in resisting …