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Soil microbiomes and regenerative agriculture

Regenerative agriculture is gaining attention as a way to make agriculture more sustainable and to better integrate natural processes. Here, we highlight how the soil microbiome critically contributes...

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Trichoderma swollenin activates AtABCB5-dependent auxin efflux to promote plant development

The beneficial fungus Trichoderma acts through the secreted swollenin ThSWO, which crosses the plant cell wall and engages AtABCB5, an auxin efflux carrier, at the host cell surface. This effector-tra...

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The disciplinary matrix of holobiont biology

Uniting life’s seen and unseen realms guides a conceptual advance in research

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Bacterial social interactions in synthetic <i>Bacillus</i> consortia enhance plant growth

Inoculation with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria SQR9 enhances cooperative behaviors and compatibility within the microbial community, promoting plant growth. Building on these interactions, syn...

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The host–microbiome dimension of ecological regime shifts

Rising climate and local pressures increase the risk of regime shifts, yet despite progress, thresholds remain difficult to identify early enough to take action. We argue that this shortfall reflects ...

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Second thoughts about first principles in biology

First-principles approaches, based on physics or chemistry, are key pillars of biological theory. Despite their value, there are recurrent problems with many first-principles approaches in biology: th...

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The plant microbiome: From ecological foundations to precision microbial engineering for sustainable agriculture

From ecological principles to precision engineering of plant microbiomes for sustainable agriculture. The plant holobiont integrates diverse microbial niches (including rhizosphere, endosphere, phyll...

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi orchestrate belowground microbiomes in plant holobionts

The traditional model of plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal coevolution, based solely on interactions between plants and AM fungi, became obsolete with the discovery of the critical roles that b...

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Fecal microbiome transplant in food allergy in humans and mice identifies a role for bile acid metabolites in oral tolerance

Fecal microbiome transplant up-regulates immune tolerance pathways in food allergy.

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<fi>Medicago truncatula</fi> genotype drives the plant nutritional strategy and its associated rhizosphere bacterial communities

Harnessing the plant microbiome through plant genetics is of increasing interest to those seeking to improve plant nutrition and health. While genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conduc...

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Trophic cascades drive sustainability in the agricultural heritage rice-fish coculture system

Wan et al. reveal that rice-fish coculture enhances invertebrate natural enemies (i.e., predators and parasitoids), suppresses pests (i.e., invertebrate herbivores, diseases, and weeds), and boosts ri...

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Engineering plant-associated microbiome for agriculture

Engineered plant-associated microbiomes provide a transformative approach for sustainable agriculture. In this Forum, we explore five strategies encompassing synthetic community design, native bacteri...

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Toward precision microbiome therapeutics: From black box to blueprint

The gut microbiome influences human health, yet microbiome-mediated therapies have lagged as metagenomics identifies gut-colonizing microbes without clarifying functional networks. Prior microbiome “r...

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Neighbours rewire plant–soil feedback patterns via reshaping root microbiomes - Nature Plants

In competition, plant performance in conspecific and heterospecific soils is determined not only by negative or positive plant–soil feedbacks but also by neighbours inducing changes in the root microb...

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Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms - Nature Microbiology

The evolutionary emergence of complex multicellularity in bacteria and fungi, such as the ability for mycelial growth, is strongly associated with increased genomic carriage of biosynthetic machinery ...

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Landscape quality drives ecological responses to habitat loss and fragmentation - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Habitat loss and fragmentation are among the greatest threats to biodiversity. Here the authors show that habitat quality of the surrounding landscape can also affect demographic rates and population ...

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Cross‐kingdom <fc>sRNA</fc> <fi>Ta_sRNA1</fi> silences <fi>PRIM2</fi> to fine‐tune Arabidopsis immunity during symbiosis with <fi>Trichoderma atroviride</fi>

Beneficial root-colonizing fungi such as Trichoderma promote plant growth and immunity, yet the contribution of fungal small RNAs (sRNAs) to these interactions remains poorly understood. Here, we id...

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Agricultural intensification, microbial homogenization and loss of rare microbiota - Nature Reviews Microbiology

In this Perspective, Banerjee, Dasgupta and van der Heijden discuss how intensive agricultural practices can lead to the taxonomic, physiological, genetic and functional homogenization of microbial co...

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Functional restructuring of the global soil microbiome under multiple stressors - Nature Communications

Soil microbes drive ecosystem functions but are vulnerable to environmental stressors triggered by global change. This study reveals that multiple environmental stressors drive community-level restruc...

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Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems - Nature Reviews Microbiology

In this Review, Rillig explores the diversity of fungi in the soil ecosystem, their ecological interactions and diverse ecological roles in terrestrial ecosystems as well as anthropogenic factors that...

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Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience

Despite growing investments in nature-based solutions for urban resilience, their design often overlooks a fundamental biological process: evolution. Populations of organisms that sustain nature-based...

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Steering plant-soil feedback for sustainable agriculture

The challenge of producing food at low monetary cost comes with high environmental impacts as yield maximization by excessive fertilization and chemical pest control drive farmers away from using the ...

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Root exudate‐associated microbiome assembly contributes to viral disease resistance in wheat

Proposed conceptual model of cultivar-dependent early rhizosphere microbiome assembly under WYMV disease pressure.

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Provenance legacies override species effects in shaping oak rhizosphere microbiomes and metabolomes

Graphical representation of experimental setup. Quercus spp. seeds were collected at two origins: upper Rhine basin (URB) and north German lowland (NGL).

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