Organisms seldom exist in isolation and are usually involved in interactions with several
hosts and these interactions in conjunction with the physicochemical parameters of the soil …

Highly diverse microbial assemblages colonize plant roots. It is still poorly understood
whether different members of this root microbiome act synergistically by supplying different …

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) has been championed as a promising bioenergy crop
due to its high productivity across a wide environmental range. The switchgrass microbiome …

Summary Bacteria, ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi, and land plants have been coevolving for
nearly 200 million years, and their interactions presumably contribute to the function of …

Background Cassava (Manibot esculenta Crantz) is one of the most important among tuber
crops. The amount of nitrogen fertilizer used for cassava production is relatively high (400 kg …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and nitrogen-fixing bacteria (expressing the nifH gene)
play an important role in maintaining plant growth and soil function, and the reconstruction …

Plant mutualists including arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi have been postulated as being
important drivers of plant community diversity and succession. Late successional plants …

Nitrogen is a macronutrient which plays an important role in the net primary productivity of
terrestrial ecosystems, and is critical to understand how nitrogen addition affects above-and …

Mycorrhizal response is the most common metric for characterizing how much benefit a plant
derives from mycorrhizal symbiosis. Traditionally, ecologists have used these metrics to …

Summer-growing perennial grasses such as Panicum coloratum L. cv. Bambatsi (Bambatsi
panic), Chloris gayana Kunth cv. Katambora (Rhodes grass) and Digitaria eriantha Steud …