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Nature
Soil microbial functional diversity can effectively indicate soil health in agriculture. This study, conducted in Mediterranean and semiarid regions of Israel, identified community level physiological profiling (CLPP) as a rapid...
Journal of Applied Microbiology
The review discusses the potential of actinobacteria, particularly Streptomyces, as sustainable biofertilizers in agriculture. These microorganisms enhance plant growth, yield, and stress resistance, offering a viable alternative to chemical fertilizers....
Frontiers in Plant Science
Streptomyces aureoverticillatus HN6 is an effective biofertilizer for improving soil fertility and controlling plant diseases. Compared to frame composting, natural composting optimizes conditions for higher temperatures and thorough decomposition. The...
Microbial Ecology
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) enhance SOC sequestration under water stress (WS) by increasing glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) production. AMF increased GRSP production and SOC, and soil aggregate stability, particularly under...
Plant and Soil
Phosphorus (P) is crucial for understory plant growth under elevated CO2 (eCO2); P limits plant responses to eCO2 and microorganisms have an indirect role. This commentary discusses the challenges of...
Nature
This study presents a multi-omics analysis of 880 microbial community samples from the Earth Microbiome Project. Standardized methods reveal habitat-specific metabolite diversity and microbial associations, highlighting key taxa and metabolites...
Nature
Soil microbiomes are essential for agroecosystem functions like fertility, productivity, and stress tolerance. This review highlights how soil structure influences microbiome functions and how agricultural practices impact this relationship. It...
Environmental Research
Microorganisms significantly enhance plant growth and resilience by converting nutrients, inhibiting pathogens, and inducing defense responses.** Despite advances in omics and gene editing for crop improvement, the role of beneficial...
Journal of Applied Microbiology
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are vital for enhancing plant growth and development in the rhizosphere. They support nutrient acquisition, soil improvement, and stress response through various mechanisms, including hormone production...
Journal of Applied Microbiology
Harnessing the rhizosphere microbiome to benefit crops is still in development, despite extensive advances in horticulture tools. Plants selectively recruit beneficial microbes through root exudates, enhancing nutrition and stress resilience....
Journal of Applied Microbiology
Combining Sewage Sludge and Cyanobacteria is a promising strategy for enhancing soil quality and carbon gain in dryland agriculture.
Journal of Applied Ecology
In East African drylands, both the quantity and quality of woody vegetation enhance soil health. Increased aboveground biomass boosts soil infiltrability (Kfs), and certain plant traits, like low leaf thickness,...
Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
Inoculation of bacterial strains isolated from saline soils promotes oat plant growth, which may be a promising strategy to improve salt–resistance in plants. In this study, inoculation with the salt-tolerant...
Pedosphere
The use of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) can significantly enhance phosphorus (P) uptake and use efficiency in rice, while reducing the need for chemical fertilizers. In a two-year field trial, a...
PNAS
Streptomyces bacteria exhibit a complex life cycle with a newly identified growth mode called "exploration," which enables rapid colony expansion on solid surfaces. This process, influenced by nutrient availability like...
Frontiers in Plant Science
Root phenotypes influence microbial colonization by creating heterogeneous microhabitats at the root-soil interface. This mini-review explores how variations in root anatomy and architecture affect microbial resource availability and spatial distribution....
Science of The Total Environment
Microbe-aided phytoremediation offers a cost-effective, eco-friendly alternative for remediating metal-contaminated soils, addressing the limitations of conventional methods. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) enhance metal removal through various mechanisms, such as adsorption...
Nature
The root-to-soil delivery of specialized plant metabolites, which shape the rhizosphere microbiome and thereby affect crop fitness, occurs via root-plant transporters. This study demonstrated that cucurbitacins in cucurbit plants are...
Applied Soil Ecology
In contaminated soils, heavy metal-resistant bacteria (VITMSJ3) combined with earthworms effectively removed 65–70% of Pb, Ni, and Cd, enhancing enzymatic activity and reducing DNA damage in earthworms. SEM and EDAX...
PubMed
A novel chemical communication between Streptomyces rapamycinicus and Aspergillus nidulans requires the bacterium-produced polaramycin B, not physical contact, for orsellinic acid (ORS) production in the fungus. This study shows that...
Journal of Hazardous Materials
This study explored the metabolomic interactions between Pteris vittata and its rhizospheric microorganisms during arsenic (As) phytoextraction. Increased water-soluble As and decreased soil pH indicated that acidic metabolites enhance As...
Nature
Application of Trichoderma bio-organic fertilizer (BF) significantly improved crop growth and yield compared to organic fertilizer (OF) in a three-year field study. Soil analysis revealed that BF influenced soil fungal...
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Nematode-based indices (NBIs) are crucial for assessing soil health and sustainability. This review evaluates the use and evolution of NBIs, emphasizing the Channel Index and Metabolic Footprints. It provides a...
Science of The Total Environment
This study investigated the role of plant-associated bacteria in enhancing phytoremediation of lead (Pb) and arsenic (As) in grey willow (Salix atrocinerea) on a contaminated brownfield. Pyrosequencing revealed diverse bacterial...
Journal of Environmental Sciences
Intercropping eggplant with the hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii and inoculating it with endophytic bacteria SaMR12 improved soil nutrient availability and enhanced Cd phytoextraction, despite inhibiting plant growth. While intercropping increased Cd...
Frontiers in Plant Science
Root system architecture (RSA) in Cupressus funebris adapts to varying environmental variations and soil conditions by altering its foraging strategies to optimize resource acquisition like water and nutrient uptake. This...
Soil Use and Management
The growing demand for soil microbial inoculants in agriculture is driven by the need for sustainable crop production and pest management. While some inoculants, like rhizobia, have proven effective, others...
MDPI
Beneficial microorganisms, particularly from the Bacillus genus, play a crucial role in enhancing soil and plant health by supplying nutrients, controlling pathogens, and stimulating growth. This review discusses their role...
Restoration of Ecology
Ecosystem restoration requires more than just replanting; reestablishing microbial communities is crucial for nutrient cycling and organic matter decomposition. Using microbial fertilizers and assessing symbiotic interactions can aid plant establishment....
Frontiers in Plant Science
This study highlights how specific root phenotypes, like Topsoil Foraging and Steep, Cheap and Deep ideotypes, improve plant growth under nutrient and water stress. It emphasizes that root traits influence...
Science
Soil degradation, especially in drylands, impairs soil hydrology and ecosystem services. This review discussed soil hydraulic properties, identified resilient microorganisms for soil restoration, and proposed future strategies for long-term land...
Journal of Hazardous Materials
Inoculating the hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii with the ABA-catabolizing bacterium Rhodococcus qingshengii increased concentrations of Zn, Cd, Ni, and Pb in plant shoots by up to 112% compared to control plants....
Science of The Total Environment
Exposure to antimony (Sb) reduced biomass and altered Pteris cretica var. nervosa growth, but arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) mitigated these effects, enhancing Sb accumulation and maintaining protein functions. Proteomics identified...
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
The root microbiome, comprising mutualists, pathogens, and commensals, plays a crucial role in plant health. Recent advances reveal how soil and plants drive commensal community assembly using root exudates and...
Nature
Vegetative processes, particularly phenology, significantly control methane (CH4) emissions from tropical wetlands. This study highlights that in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, phenological cycles of vegetation like papyrus modulate net CH4...
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Sulfur is crucial for plant growth and metabolism, impacting protein synthesis and stress responses. This review explores sulfur's role in plant nutrition, its uptake and transport mechanisms, and the benefits...
New Phytologist Foundation
Understanding how root metabolites influence plant-microbe interactions under environmental stress is crucial. Recent advances suggest that synthetic biology approaches can fine-tune root metabolomes to improve plant stress resistance, providing promising...
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Drought manipulation in wheat fields revealed that bacterial community composition varies significantly between plant compartments, not due to precipitation. Osmotic stress-resistant microorganisms were less represented in the rhizosphere than in...
Journal of Applied Ecology
Soil microbial communities, crucial for dryland restoration, showed no significant changes in diversity or composition after 1 year of monoculture or polyculture revegetation at eight sites. This suggests that soil...
Frontiers in Microbiology
Drought reduces root microbial diversity and alters the composition in Populus trees, notably increasing Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria. Beneficial microbes, including Streptomyces rochei and Bacillus arbutinivorans, were isolated from drought-stressed...
New Phytologist Foundation
Root traits and soil fungal communities respond to drought in species-specific ways. A glasshouse experiment on 24 plant species found that drought-induced changes in fungal beta diversity, with saprotrophs increasing...
MDPI
Drought stress restructures grapevine root microbial communities. Under reduced irrigation (25% field capacity), fungal composition shifted significantly, with the root endosphere showing the greatest change. Black-foot disease fungi increased at...
ASM
Four newly isolated plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strains enhanced Arabidopsis thaliana growth through ACC deaminase activity, indole acetic acid production, and phosphorus solubilization. Some strains also provided protection against pathogens,...
Plant, Cell & Environment
Modulating root growth angle enhances nutrient and water acquisition, improving crop performance under stress. This study in maize revealed several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) linked to root angle; one of...
Nature
Warming will cause significant global soil organic carbon (SOC) losses due to increased microbial activity despite uncertainties. The evidence includes increased soil respiration with temperature and SOC accumulation in colder...
Nature
This study shows that nutrient amendment reduced bacterial diversity, centralizing carbon flow through fewer taxa. Key genera (Bradyrhizobium, RB41, Streptomyces) were responsible for 45–57% of carbon flux. Bacteria that used...
Nature
Lower order roots exert the greatest selective pressure on microbial communities, impacting microbial composition and abundance. This study found that lower order roots of six temperate tree species have a...
Cell
Using TRAP-seq, root responses to Verticillium longisporum, Phytophthora parasitica, and Serendipita indica revealed distinct reactions to pathogens and mutualists: pathogen suppression of endodermal barriers and differential antimicrobial compound production. This...
Frontiers in Microbiology
The distribution of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase gene (acdS)-carrying bacteria in the maize rhizosphere is influenced by soil type, depth, and root hairs. Amplicon sequencing revealed that acdS-carrying bacteria, mostly Actinobacteria and...
Journal of Experimental Botany
Enhancing root system traits in cereals through integrated genomic and phenomic approaches is crucial for improving yield and sustainability under drought stress. This review explores root system variations in cereals...
