Feed Your Friends: Do Plant Exudates Shape the Root Microbiome?

TL;DR: In this article, soil respiration was measured under untreated control, root exclusion, litterfall exclusion, and combined litterfall and root exclusion (NRNL) in a subtropical Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation and a secondary Castanopsis carlesii forest for three years.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of triterpene esters biosynthetic pathways and bioactivities is provided, providing a foundation for subsequent studies on the bioactivities of triterpene esters and their commercial applications, agricultural production and biological disaster prevention.

TL;DR: The in vitro approach confirmed its potential to both investigate the contribution of plant metabolism in the biosynthesis of masked mycotoxins and to foresee the development of biocatalytic tools to develop nature-like mixtures to be used as reference materials.

TL;DR: In this article , a microcosm experiment using the combination of 16 S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and high-throughput qPCR array was conducted to reveal the effects of manure fertilization on microbiomes of soils and plants and how such impact is translated into endophytic pathogens.

TL;DR: The pyrosequencing of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene of more than 600 Arabidopsis thaliana plants is reported to test the hypotheses that the root rhizosphere and endophytic compartment microbiota of plants grown under controlled conditions in natural soils are sufficiently dependent on the host to remain consistent across different soil types and developmental stages.

TL;DR: Dynamic changes observed during microbiome acquisition, as well as steady-state compositions of spatial compartments, support a multistep model for root microbiome assembly from soil wherein the rhizoplane plays a selective gating role.

TL;DR: Methodology is described to characterize and compare soil- and root-inhabiting bacterial communities, which reveals not only a function for metabolically active plant cells but also for inert cell-wall features in the selection of soil bacteria for host colonization.

TL;DR: This finding indicates that hosts can benefit from microbial competition when this competition dampens cooperative networks and increases stability, and indicates that stability is promoted by limiting positive feedbacks and weakening ecological interactions.