Community standards and future opportunities for synthetic communities in plant–microbiota research

TR Northen, M Kleiner, M Torres, ÁT Kovács… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Harnessing beneficial microorganisms is seen as a promising approach to enhance
sustainable agriculture production. Synthetic communities (SynComs) are increasingly …

Roots of synthetic ecology: microbes that foster plant resilience in the changing climate

E Kozaeva, AA Eida, EF Gunady, JL Dangl… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
HighlightsInfluences of abiotic stresses on assembly and function of rhizo-microbiomeHow
ecology shapes plant and microbial stress resilienceExamples in which microbial abiotic …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce soil N2O emissions by altering root traits and soil denitrifier community composition

T He, W Lin, S Yang, J Du, B Giri, C Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) increase the ability of plants to obtain nitrogen (N) from
the soil, and thus can affect emissions of nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a long-lived potent …

Mitigating sediment cadmium contamination through combining PGPR Enterobacter ludwigii with the submerged macrophyte Vallisneria natans

X Liu, Y Guo, Y Li, Q Li, L Yao, J Yu, H Chen… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sediment cadmium contamination poses risks to aquatic ecosystems. Phytoremediation is
an environmentally sustainable method to mitigate cadmium contamination. Submerged …

Fabricated devices for performing bacterial-fungal interaction experiments across scales

JM Kelliher, LYD Johnson, AJ Robinson… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Diverse and complex microbiomes are found in virtually every environment on Earth.
Bacteria and fungi often co-dominate environmental microbiomes, and there is growing …

From synthetic communities to synthetic ecosystems: exploring causalities in plant–microbe–environment interactions

G Chesneau, J Herpell, R Garrido‐Oter… - New …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The plant microbiota research field has rapidly shifted from efforts aimed at gaining a
descriptive understanding of microbiota composition to a focus on acquiring mechanistic …

Automated annotation of scientific texts for ML-based keyphrase extraction and validation

OO Amusat, H Hegde, CJ Mungall, A Giannakou… - Database, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Advanced omics technologies and facilities generate a wealth of valuable data daily;
however, the data often lack the essential metadata required for researchers to find, curate …

Nitrate supply increases the resistance of cucumber to Fusarium wilt disease by regulating root exudation

J Zeng, Z Gu, J Li, R Wang, M Huang, M Wang… - Biology and Fertility of …, 2025 - Springer
Yield losses caused by Fusarium wilt pose a risk to global food security. Nitrogen fertilizer
regime affected the soil bacterial community and could reduce the occurrence of diseases …

Assessing horizontal gene transfer in the rhizosphere of Brachypodium distachyon using fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs)

S Priya, S Rossbach, T Eng, HH Lin… - Applied and …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major process by which genes are transferred between
microbes in the rhizosphere. However, examining HGT remains challenging due to the …

Tansley insight

S Hacquard - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The plant microbiota research field has rapidly shifted from efforts aimed at gaining a
descriptive understanding of microbiota composition to a focus on acquiring mechanistic …