Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

This study uses drift-driven simplification to generate simplified microbial communities that retain ecological cohesiveness and function.

The paper shows that plant functional type composition, not species diversity, shapes soil microbial functional diversity and redundancy in cover crop systems.

The paper reduces a sorghum synthetic microbial community to identify a stable, growth-promoting variant that enhances flavonoid production and plant growth through dynamic gene expression and metabolomic changes.

This study investigates early rhizosphere community assembly in tomato using combinatorial community coalescence, revealing a consistent compositional and abundance structure across diverse inocula.

The paper identifies a tomato MIK2-clade receptor that perceives a Fusarium-derived elicitor, revealing its role in PTI and susceptibility to Fusarium oxysporum.

This study compares soil chemical properties and root-associated bacterial communities between Welsh onion and sweet potato under the same field conditions, finding differences in soil chemistry and microbial composition.

This study shows that Pseudomonas simiae WCS417r induces resistance in barley against powdery mildew through pathogen-dependent transcriptional changes without major shifts in the phyllosphere microbiome.

This study shows that bacterial community volatiles and direct contact differently affect plant growth under varying nutrient conditions, engaging distinct host regulatory pathways.

This study shows that NbRD21 protease regulates receptor-like kinase homeostasis in Nicotiana benthamiana by affecting their post-translational processing and endocytic recycling.

This study examines the relationship between root phenotypes and rhizosphere microbial diversity in maize under drought and optimal conditions, finding that root anatomy, not architecture, is more strongly associated with microbial diversity.

The paper develops a synthetic microbial community for maize roots and shows it enhances plant growth under nitrogen limitation.

The paper examines how drought affects the total and active microbiome in wheat roots, finding greater sensitivity in the active microbiome and VOC emissions in drought-sensitive wheat.

This study shows that O-glycosylation of immune kinases modulates plant immunity by sensing sugar availability, with implications for crop health.

The paper shows that bacterial motility reduces surface tension in soil, enhancing water infiltration and rewetting.

This study shows that wheat genotypes with different tolerance to Fusarium root rot influence bacterial communities and root traits, which are linked to metabolite profiles and disease resistance.

This paper isolates and characterizes Bacillus velezensis strains with antifungal activity against mushroom mycoparasites but finds they do not improve yield or control disease in field trials.

This study shows that repeated exposure of Bacillus velezensis to Pseudomonas secondary metabolites leads to an adapted subpopulation with enhanced root competitiveness and reduced Pseudomonas abundance in planta.

The paper isolates a Pantoea strain from quinoa that promotes plant growth under salt stress by producing salinity-responsive auxin.

This study shows that NBR1-mediated selective autophagy reduces bacterial susceptibility in Arabidopsis under warming by regulating ABI5 turnover and ABA signaling.

This study examines the spatiotemporal dynamics of the microbiome in desert C. colocynthis, linking microbial community changes to functional traits and cultivable traits relevant to arid survival.

The paper shows EXO70E2, an Arabidopsis exocyst subunit, is involved in defense against Pseudomonas syringae through autophagy.

The paper investigates how soil microbes affect phenotypic correlations in early-life traits of Medicago lupulina, finding that microbes alter leaf traits like area and trichome density independently of growth.

This study uses fluorescence in situ hybridization to show that Citrobacter sedlakii CESi7 colonizes roots both epiphytically and endophytically in different environments.

This study compares genomic and transcriptomic differences between highly and weakly parasitic Trichoderma atroviride strains to identify molecular mechanisms underlying mycoparasitic performance.

The paper investigates the structural role of zinc coordination in the wheat rust effector AvrSr33, showing it provides a scaffold necessary for immune recognition by Sr33.

This study shows that metabolically engineered oilcane alters rhizosphere microbial communities while maintaining overall functional capacity in greenhouse and field settings.

The paper investigates how co-introduced microbes affect host colonization success and finds that non-local microbes reduce host performance.

This study identifies a Paenibacillus sp. symbiont of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum that reduces disease severity in watermelon plants.