A cell-free bacterial signal orchestrates trans-kingdom fitness tradeoff to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants
Arijit Mukherjee, Mrinmoy Mazumder, Arun Kumar Verma, Hitesh Tikariha, Raktim Bhattacharya, Qi En Ooi, Sanjay Swarup
The paper identifies a bacterial signal, glutathione, that improves plant growth under sulfur deficiency by orchestrating a trans-kingdom fitness tradeoff in the rhizosphere microbiome.
Cell Host & Microbe · Sep 27, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology