Harnessing plant‐associated microbiomes offers an invaluable strategy to help agricultural
production become more sustainable while also meeting growing demands for food, feed …

Domestication processes, amplified by breeding programs, have allowed the selection of
more productive genotypes and more suitable crop lines capable of coping with the …

In terrestrial ecosystems, plant leaves provide the largest biological habitat for highly diverse
microbial communities, known as the phyllosphere microbiota. However, the underlying …

Genetic and environmental factors collectively determine plant growth and yield. In the past
20 years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted on crops to …

Although complex interactions between hosts and microbial associates are increasingly well
documented, we still know little about how and why hosts shape microbial communities in …

Current disease resistance breeding, which is largely dependent on the exploitation of
resistance genes in host plants, faces the serious challenges of rapidly evolving …

Microbiomes play a pivotal role in plant growth and health, but the genetic factors involved in
microbiome assembly remain largely elusive. Here, we map the molecular features of the …

Plants interact with a diversity of microorganisms that influence their growth and resilience,
and they can therefore be considered as ecological entities, namely “plant holobionts,” …

Plant breeding for belowground traits that have a positive impact on the rhizosphere
microbiome is a promising strategy to sustainably improve crop yields. Root architecture and …

The development of strategies for effectively manipulating and engineering beneficial plant-
associated microbiomes is a major challenge in microbial ecology. In this sense, the efficacy …