Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities
Ghada Yousif, Francisco Zorrilla, Swagatika Dash, Leonardo Oña, Ankit Shekhar, Samir Giri, Rui Guan, Sharvari Harshe, Michael Itermann, D. Welter, Vladimı́r Beneš, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Christian Kost
The paper shows that many soil bacteria depend on metabolite supplementation from other community members, revealing widespread cross-feeding in soil microbial communities.
Nature Microbiology · Aug 24, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology