The root microbiome: Community assembly and its contributions to plant fitness

B Bai, W Liu, X Qiu, J Zhang, J Zhang… - Journal of Integrative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The root microbiome refers to the community of microbes living in association with a plant's
roots, and includes mutualists, pathogens, and commensals. Here we focus on recent …

Plant secondary metabolites altering root microbiome composition and function

A Koprivova, S Kopriva - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Plants share their natural environment with numerous microorganisms, commensal as well
as harmful. Plant fitness and performance are thus dependent on an efficient communication …

A highly conserved core bacterial microbiota with nitrogen-fixation capacity inhabits the xylem sap in maize plants

L Zhang, M Zhang, S Huang, L Li, Q Gao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbiomes are important for crop performance. However, a deeper knowledge of crop-
associated microbial communities is needed to harness beneficial host-microbe interactions …

Cofunctioning of bacterial exometabolites drives root microbiota establishment

F Getzke, MA Hassani, M Crüsemann… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Soil-dwelling microbes are the principal inoculum for the root microbiota, but our
understanding of microbe–microbe interactions in microbiota establishment remains …

Co‐evolution within the plant holobiont drives host performance

F Mesny, S Hacquard, BPHJ Thomma - EMBO reports, 2023 - embopress.org
Plants interact with a diversity of microorganisms that influence their growth and resilience,
and they can therefore be considered as ecological entities, namely “plant holobionts,” …

Coordination of microbe–host homeostasis by crosstalk with plant innate immunity

KW Ma, Y Niu, Y Jia, J Ordon, C Copeland, A Emonet… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Plants grown in natural soil are colonized by phylogenetically structured communities of
microbes known as the microbiota. Individual microbes can activate microbe-associated …

Root colonization by beneficial rhizobacteria

Y Liu, Z Xu, L Chen, W Xun, X Shu… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Rhizosphere microbes play critical roles for plant's growth and health. Among them, the
beneficial rhizobacteria have the potential to be developed as the biofertilizer or …

[HTML][HTML] Microbes to support plant health: understanding bioinoculant success in complex conditions

SWM Poppeliers, JJ Sánchez-Gil… - Current opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
A promising, sustainable way to enhance plant health and productivity is by leveraging
beneficial microbes. Beneficial microbes are natural soil residents with proven benefits for …

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 …

Engineering plant microbiomes by integrating eco-evolutionary principles into current strategies

ZPM Moreira, MY Chen, DLY Ortuno… - Current Opinion in Plant …, 2023 - Elsevier
Engineering plant microbiomes has the potential to improve plant health in a rapid and
sustainable way. Rapidly changing climates and relatively long timelines for plant breeding …