Due to increasingly limited water resources, diminishing farmland acreage, and potentially
negative effects of climate change, an urgent need exists to improve agricultural productivity …

The aerial portion of a plant, namely the leaf, is inhabited by pathogenic and non-pathogenic
microbes. The leaf's physical and chemical properties, combined with fluctuating and often …

Plants serve as host to numerous microorganisms. The members of these microbial
communities interact among each other and with the plant, and there is increasing evidence …

The phytohormone network consisting of jasmonate, ethylene, PHYTOALEXIN-DEFICIENT4,
and salicylic acid signaling is required for the two modes of plant immunity, pattern-triggered …

The penetration of substances from the surface to deep inside plant tissues is called
infiltration. Although various plant tissues may be effectively saturated with externally …

Popular naive Bayes taxonomic classifiers for amplicon sequences assume that all species
in the reference database are equally likely to be observed. We demonstrate that …

Plants are resistant to most microbial species due to nonhost resistance (NHR), providing
broad-spectrum and durable immunity. However, the molecular components contributing to …

Spatiotemporal coordination of protein trafficking among organelles is essential for
eukaryotic cells. The post-Golgi interface, including the trans-Golgi network (TGN), is a …

Highlights•Sequencing plants and microbiota has identified mechanisms of communal
interactions.•Identification of host traits, responsible for microbial community structure.•Plant …

Plants are not only challenged by pathogenic organisms but also colonized by commensal
microbes. The network of interactions these microbes establish with their host and among …