Microorganisms colonizing the plant rhizosphere provide a number of beneficial functions
for their host. Although an increasing number of investigations clarified the great functional …

Microorganisms drive several processes needed for robust plant growth and health.
Harnessing microbial functions is thus key to productive and sustainable food production …

Highlights•Soil microbiomes induce reproducible plant phenotypes.•Large collections of
plant-associated microbes are available for research.•Plant growth promoting microbial …

Chemical exchange often serves as the first step in plant–microbe interactions and
exchanges of various signals, nutrients, and metabolites continue throughout the interaction …

The reuse of treated wastewater (TWW) and sewage sludge are considered as solutions to
the limited water resource and sludge disposal issues, respectively. The associated …

The soil microbiota is critical to plant performance. Improving the ability of plant-associated
soil probiotics is thus essential for establishing dependable and sustainable crop yields …

Although the importance of the soil microbiome in mediating plant community structures and
functions has been increasingly emphasized in ecological studies, the biological processes …

Biochar, a solid coproduct of biomass pyrolysis, has recently been proposed as soil
amendment in agriculture. We studied the effect of biochar on soil and substrate …

Maize-soybean relay intercropping is an effective approach to improve the crop yield and
nutrient use efficiency, which is widely practiced by farmers in southwest of China. To …

Plant growth depends on a range of functions provided by their associated rhizosphere
microbiome, including nutrient mineralization, hormone co-regulation and pathogen …