Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

This study identifies key residues in plant receptors that enable expanded flg22 perception and develops a framework for rational receptor engineering to enhance pathogen restriction.

This study identifies genetic loci in grapevine that influence berry-associated microbial communities, including pathogenic fungi and fermentative yeasts, revealing broad genetic control over microbiome assembly.

This study examines how temperature affects hormone signaling in tomato plants infected with a bacterial pathogen.

This study examines how microbial inoculation affects sagebrush seedlings under drought conditions, finding context-dependent impacts on plant health and survival.

This study shows Streptomyces coelicolor enhances ergothioneine levels in wheat plants and colonizes them as an endophyte, linking soil and human health through EGT production.

This study shows that T6SS-mediated competition by S. rhizophila influences seed microbiota composition and seed-to-seedling transmission dynamics.

AlphaFold 3 oligomer models separate paired plant NLRs: helpers score higher pTM and form funnel-shaped resistosomes unlike sensors, including some rice pairs lacking integrated-domain annotations.

The study shows that intra-genus competition among Pseudomonas strains in synthetic communities determines their protective effect against a pathogenic isolate in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The paper examines how pea genotypes influence root microbiota composition and abundance in response to soil-borne pathogens and links these changes to root rot resistance.

The study shows that field conditions override the growth-defense tradeoff in Arabidopsis thaliana by modulating ACD6 activity, unlike greenhouse conditions.

The paper identifies taxonomically diverse rhizobacteria that induce systemic resistance in tomato plants against Botrytis, revealing varied mechanisms of action.

This study identifies RACB interaction partners in barley-Bh pathosystem and shows their roles in disease resistance or susceptibility through lipid interactions.

The paper identifies an efflux pump family in plant commensal bacteria that detoxifies host-specific glucosinolates, enabling host- and organ-specific colonization.

This study identifies potato cultivars with microbiome interactive traits to enhance sustainable agriculture by improving plant growth and stress resistance through soil microbiome interactions.

This study identifies ferritin-mediated iron homeostasis and microbial shifts in sorghum under drought, showing their roles in stress adaptation and plant resilience.

This study shows that extracellular vesicles from a plant-beneficial bacterium affect plant physiology and defense gene expression, revealing their role in plant-bacteria interactions.

The paper identifies structural determinants of the DM3 alpha/beta hydrolase that trigger NLR-mediated genetic incompatibility in plants by disrupting dimer interface integrity.

This study shows that rhizobacteria inoculation of barley induces dynamic molecular pathways that enhance plant defense and nutritional responses, reducing aphid populations over time.

This study shows that plant-soil feedbacks from drought-adapted genotypes of Tripsacum dactyloides affect root traits and microbiomes under drought conditions.

The paper demonstrates that co-transferring sensor and helper NLRs from Solanaceae to rice, soybean, and Arabidopsis can extend immune receptor functionality across plant families.

This paper optimizes a culturomics protocol to isolate and identify hundreds of bacterial isolates from plant microbiomes using dilution-to-extinction culturing and a two-step barcoding PCR strategy with NGS and DADA2.

The paper investigates how host genotype, phylogeny, and growing site shape bacterial composition in the switchgrass rhizosphere using genetic and microbial analyses.

This study identifies iron retention and symbiotic associations as mechanisms enabling soybean tolerance to combined iron deficiency and drought.

The paper identifies a consistent depletion of prophages, plasmids, and defense systems in plant-associated bacterial genomes across multiple ecosystems.

This study shows that in vitro biofilm formation by Pseudomonas fluorescens does not fully predict its ability to protect plants against pathogens in the rhizosphere.

This study identifies distinct roles of BIR1 and BIR3 in modulating antiviral resistance in Arabidopsis through different molecular mechanisms.

This study shows that Oligo-Mix, a mixture of DAMP/MAMP oligosaccharides, promotes cucumber growth and enhances resistance to fungal pathogens by inducing defense responses and structural reinforcement.

The paper investigates how host plant genotypes and microbial interactions non-additively affect plant growth and pathogen defense in Medicago truncatula.

The paper examines how soil nutrition affects the root-associated microbiome of rice across seasons and conditions, finding nitrogen-fixing bacteria dominate in non-fertilized fields and a machine learning model can predict soil fertilization status from microbiome data.

The paper assembles a synthetic microbial community (SynCom) from maize-associated bacteria to study emergent colony architecture as a proxy for biofilm formation.