Forests are essential biomes for global biogeochemical cycles, and belowground
microorganisms have a key role in providing relevant ecosystem services. To predict the …

Plants interact throughout their lives with environmental microorganisms. These interactions
determine plant development, nutrition, and fitness in a dynamic and stressful environment …

Background Plants have developed defense strategies for phytopathogen and herbivore
protection via coordinated metabolic mechanisms. Low-molecular weight metabolites …

To better understand the relationship between soil bacterial communities, soil
physicochemical properties, land use and geographical distance, we considered for the first …

Amplicon-based analysis of 16S rRNA genes and transcripts was used to assess the effect
of tree species composition on soil bacterial community structure and function in a temperate …

Plant roots are inhabited by a large diversity of microbes, some of which are beneficial for
the growth of plants and known as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). In this …

Forest-to-agriculture conversion has been identified as a major threat to soil biodiversity and
soil processes resilience, although the consequences of long-term land use change to …

Mixed forest stands tend to be more resistant to drought than species-specific stands
partially due to complementarity in root ecology and physiology. We asked whether …

In a desert, plants as holobionts quickly respond to resource pulses like precipitation.
However, little is known on how environment and plants modulate the rhizosphere …

Host–microbiome interactions are specific and not random, making them defining entities for
the host. The hypothesis proposed by various researchers earlier, that both plants and …