Feed your friends: do plant exudates shape the root microbiome?

J Sasse, E Martinoia, T Northen - Trends in plant science, 2018 - cell.com
Plant health in natural environments depends on interactions with complex and dynamic
communities comprising macro-and microorganisms. While many studies have provided …

The soil microbiome—from metagenomics to metaphenomics

JK Jansson, KS Hofmockel - Current opinion in microbiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil microorganisms carry out important processes, including support of plant growth and
cycling of carbon and other nutrients. However, the majority of soil microbes have not yet …

The core metabolome and root exudation dynamics of three phylogenetically distinct plant species

S McLaughlin, K Zhalnina, S Kosina… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Root exudates are plant-derived, exported metabolites likely shaping root-associated
microbiomes by acting as nutrients and signals. However, root exudation dynamics are …

Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly

K Zhalnina, KB Louie, Z Hao, N Mansoori… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Like all higher organisms, plants have evolved in the context of a microbial world, shaping
both their evolution and their contemporary ecology. Interactions between plant roots and …

Metabolic cooperation and spatiotemporal niche partitioning in a kefir microbial community

S Blasche, Y Kim, RAT Mars, D Machado… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Microbial communities often undergo intricate compositional changes yet also maintain
stable coexistence of diverse species. The mechanisms underlying long-term coexistence …

Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly

JE Goldford, N Lu, D Bajić, S Estrela, M Tikhonov… - Science, 2018 - science.org
A major unresolved question in microbiome research is whether the complex taxonomic
architectures observed in surveys of natural communities can be explained and predicted by …

Nutrient and moisture limitations reveal keystone metabolites linking rhizosphere metabolomes and microbiomes

NR Baker, K Zhalnina, M Yuan, D Herman… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Plants release a wealth of metabolites into the rhizosphere that can shape the composition
and activity of microbial communities in response to environmental stress. The connection …

Evidence of niche partitioning among bacteria living on plastics, organic particles and surrounding seawaters

C Dussud, AL Meistertzheim, P Conan… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution is widespread in ocean ecosystems worldwide, but it is unknown if plastic
offers a unique habitat for bacteria compared to communities in the water column and …

Yeast creates a niche for symbiotic lactic acid bacteria through nitrogen overflow

O Ponomarova, N Gabrielli, DC Sévin, M Mülleder… - Cell systems, 2017 - cell.com
Many microorganisms live in communities and depend on metabolites secreted by fellow
community members for survival. Yet our knowledge of interspecies metabolic …

The biology of ergothioneine, an antioxidant nutraceutical

I Borodina, LC Kenny, CM McCarthy… - Nutrition Research …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Ergothioneine (ERG) is an unusual thio-histidine betaine amino acid that has potent
antioxidant activities. It is synthesised by a variety of microbes, especially fungi (including in …