Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry

NW Sokol, E Slessarev, GL Marschmann… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil microorganisms shape global element cycles in life and death. Living soil
microorganisms are a major engine of terrestrial biogeochemistry, driving the turnover of soil …

Plant–microbiome interactions: from community assembly to plant health

P Trivedi, JE Leach, SG Tringe, T Sa… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Healthy plants host diverse but taxonomically structured communities of microorganisms, the
plant microbiota, that colonize every accessible plant tissue. Plant-associated microbiomes …

Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks

DJ Hernandez, AS David, ES Menges… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Environmental stress is increasing worldwide, yet we lack a clear picture of how stress
disrupts the stability of microbial communities and the ecosystem services they provide …

Cross-kingdom nutrient exchange in the plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus–bacterium continuum

S Duan, G Feng, E Limpens, P Bonfante… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The association between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) affects plant
performance and ecosystem functioning. Recent studies have identified AMF-associated …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi conducting the hyphosphere bacterial orchestra

L Zhang, J Zhou, TS George, E Limpens, G Feng - Trends in plant science, 2022 - cell.com
More than two-thirds of terrestrial plants acquire nutrients by forming a symbiosis with
arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. AM fungal hyphae recruit distinct microbes into their …

Conserved and reproducible bacterial communities associate with extraradical hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

BD Emmett, V Lévesque-Tremblay… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Extraradical hyphae (ERH) of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) extend from plant roots
into the soil environment and interact with soil microbial communities. Evidence of positive …

Mechanisms of stress tolerance and their effects on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizal fungi

S Branco, A Schauster, HL Liao, J Ruytinx - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stress is ubiquitous and disrupts homeostasis, leading to damage, decreased fitness, and
even death. Like other organisms, mycorrhizal fungi evolved mechanisms for stress …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance plant phosphorus uptake through stimulating hyphosphere soil microbiome functional profiles for phosphorus turnover

G Wang, Z **, TS George, G Feng, L Zhang - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The extraradical hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are colonized by different
bacteria in natural and agricultural systems, but the mechanisms by which AM fungi interact …

Functional analysis of the OsNPF4. 5 nitrate transporter reveals a conserved mycorrhizal pathway of nitrogen acquisition in plants

S Wang, A Chen, K **e, X Yang, Z Luo… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Low availability of nitrogen (N) is often a major limiting factor to crop yield in most nutrient-
poor soils. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are beneficial symbionts of most land plants …

HT-SIP: a semi-automated stable isotope probing pipeline identifies cross-kingdom interactions in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

EE Nuccio, SJ Blazewicz, M Lafler, AN Campbell… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Linking the identity of wild microbes with their ecophysiological traits and
environmental functions is a key ambition for microbial ecologists. Of many techniques that …