Functional capacities drive recruitment of bacteria into plant root microbiota
Gijs Selten, Florian Lamouche, Adrián Gómez-Repollés, José Luis López, Xiao-mei Zhang, Caitlan J. Smart, Zuzana Blahovska, Geovanna Zárate Camargo, Simon J. Kelly, Ronnie de Jonge, Simona Radutoiu
The paper investigates how Arabidopsis, Barley, and Lotus plants recruit specific bacteria from synthetic communities, finding that functional capacities drive microbiota assembly.
Nature Microbiology · Sep 17, 2026Peer-reviewedPlant Biology