Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

The paper develops a scalable screening method to assess bacterial antagonism against potato pathogens and identifies phylogenetic patterns in antagonistic activity.

This study shows how engineered tandem kinase immune receptors in plants can recognize different fungal effectors, expanding their disease resistance capabilities.

This study tracks how feather hydrolysate affects soil microbiome succession over 30 days, showing a shift toward copiotrophic and plant-beneficial taxa.

The paper evaluates rhizosphere sampling methods, introducing RhizoCore to improve reproducibility and scalability in agricultural microbiome studies.

The paper examines how leaf bacterial communities in milkweeds change over a season, showing shifts from dispersal-driven homogenization to dispersal limitation, with host-specific effects on community composition and arthropod interactions.

The paper shows that iron availability influences microbiota homeostasis in Arabidopsis leaves, with iron supplementation restoring dysbiosis in a mutant.

This study tracks microbial dynamics during drought and rewetting in soybean soils, identifying Trinickia as a key genus linked to drought resilience.

The paper investigates how Arabidopsis, Barley, and Lotus plants recruit specific bacteria from synthetic communities, finding that functional capacities drive microbiota assembly.

This study identifies two new non-pathogenic Xanthomonas species associated with citrus and describes a community of diverse NPX species similar to those found in rice.

The paper identifies conserved inhibitory mechanisms in root-associated bacteria that affect both Arabidopsis thaliana and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, using a scalable algal model to study cryptic inhibition.

This study shows that Trichoderma atroviride dynamically adjusts its gene expression in response to different plant pathogens, revealing transcriptional plasticity in its antagonistic strategies.

This study characterizes Caulobacter sp. RL271, a hub taxon in the soybean root endosphere, revealing its unique biofilm formation and riboflavin-mediated mutualism with Bradyrhizobium.

This study identifies chromatin features and the role of H3K4me3 demethylase JMJ14 in transcriptional memory in Arabidopsis, showing that engineered H3K4me3 can enhance immune resistance.

The paper identifies tryptophan-driven metabolic shifts in Acidobacteriaceae, revealing phytohormones and antifungal metabolites through metabolomic and genomic analysis.

This study identifies AtNHR2A and AtNHR2B as proteins involved in both conventional and unconventional secretion pathways in Arabidopsis, contributing to plant immunity and stress responses.

The paper uses single-cell genomics to identify Enterobacterales bacteria in soybean rhizoplane soils associated with red crown rot, showing they carry cationic antimicrobial peptide resistance genes.

The paper uses CRISPRi-seq to identify genes required for Bacillus subtilis root colonization in Arabidopsis thaliana, revealing roles in cell envelope remodeling and metabolic shifts.

The paper examines rhizosphere microbiome dynamics in plant mixtures and finds non-additive effects in legume-grass combinations under nitrogen addition.

The study examines how climate gradients affect Populus trichocarpa stress responses and microbial communities across different soil niches.

This study shows that a root pathogen activates antimicrobial production in beneficial bacteria, enhancing plant defense against itself.

This study identifies effector proteins from the fungal symbiont Serendipita indica that modulate plant stress signaling pathways, enhancing abiotic stress resilience and pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis.

This study shows that the bacterium Pantoea sp. R4 enhances myo-inositol (MI) in plant shoots during drought, improving water retention and protecting plants.

This study identifies two cryptic phytocytokines, PC13 and PC14, released from multifunctional proteins via SA-triggered proteolysis, which have opposing effects on plant immunity.

The paper investigates how foliar pathogens and drought affect root microbiomes across different microbial communities, finding that stress responses are reproducible but depend on the initial community composition.

This study identifies three bacterial strains that promote tomato growth and control bacterial canker caused by Clavibacter michiganensis, with two strains showing significant disease reduction and growth enhancement.

This study shows that seed microbiome transfer can restore disease resistance and microbiome function in tomato progeny affected by parental antibiotic-induced dysbiosis.

The paper shows salicylic acid modulates SnRK1 and TOR to regulate NPR1 phosphorylation, linking immune responses with metabolic control in plants.

This study shows that Bacillus subtilis improves garden pea growth under alkaline stress by altering host gene expression and rhizosphere microbiome composition.

This study shows that ADFs in Arabidopsis have a nuclear role in plant immunity by interacting with WRKY transcription factors to regulate the transcriptome during immune responses.

This study identifies Microbacterium bengalense GB16_1_BI as a plant growth promoter that manipulates rhizosphere microbiota to enhance nitrogen cycling and plant development.