Under more intensified cropping conditions agriculture will face increasing incidences of soil-
borne plant pests and pathogens, leading to increasingly higher yield losses world-wide …

Plant roots are built of concentric cell layers that are thought to respond to microbial
infections by employing specific, genetically defined programs. Yet, the functional impact of …

In nature, roots of healthy plants are colonized by multikingdom microbial communities that
include bacteria, fungi, and oomycetes. A key question is how plants control the assembly of …

Root-associated microbiota is important for plant health, but there is limited knowledge of
how plant pathological condition influences the succession of soil microbial communities …

Jasmonic acid (JA) is an essential hormone in plant development and defense responses in
Arabidopsis thaliana. Exogenous treatment with JA has recently been shown to alter root …

The rhizosphere is the immediate area of soil encompassing plant roots that is inhabited by
a large population of microorganisms and invertebrates, making its environment highly …

The establishment of beneficial interactions with microbes has helped plants to modulate
root branching plasticity in response to environmental cues. However, how the plant …

Plant‐derived low‐molecular weight compounds play a crucial role in shaping soil
microbiome functionality. While various compounds have been demonstrated to affect soil …

Plants are teeming with microbial organisms including those that colonize internal tissues as
well as those that adhere to external surfaces. In the rhizosphere, the plant‐associated …

The roots of plants have the ability to influence its surrounding microbiology, the so-called
rhizosphere microbiome, through the creation of specific chemical niches in the soil …