Keming Yang

TL;DR: Increased the number of phages in combinations decreased the incidence of disease by up to 80% in greenhouse and field experiments during a single crop season, and specific phage combinations have potential as precision tools to control plant pathogenic bacteria.

TL;DR: Overall, this study shows that land-use alters the composition and network structure of soil microbiota that determine the litter decomposition, and reveals that specialized keystone taxa are involved in the decomposition dynamics, and highlights an opportunity of harnessing such taxa for manipulating lignocellulose decomposition in soil ecosystems.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors used metagenomics and direct experiments to causally test if differences in rhizosphere phage communities could explain variation in soil suppressiveness and bacterial wilt plant disease outcomes by plant-pathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum bacterium.

TL;DR: It is shown that RIN affects microbiome-mediated disease resistance via root exudation, leading to recruitment of microbiota that suppresses soil-borne, phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum bacterium and thus suggests that while plant disease resistance is a complex trait driven by interactions between the plant, rhizosphere microbiome and the pathogen, it can be indirectly manipulated using 'prebiotic' compounds that promote the recruitment of disease-suppressive microbiota.