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,” …

Since the colonization of land by ancestral plant lineages 450 million years ago, plants and
their associated microbes have been interacting with each other, forming an assemblage of …

Plants interact throughout their lives with environmental microorganisms. These interactions
determine plant development, nutrition, and fitness in a dynamic and stressful environment …

Our knowledge of host-associated microorganisms and their role in host functions is rapidly
evolving. Stress-affected plants assemble beneficial microbes in their rhizosphere to …

The plant holobiont comprises the plant and its associated microbiota, which interact with
each other and determine holobiont functioning and plant performance. We have started to …

Highlights•New molecular methods have revealed microbiomes to be key components of
plant health.•Plant microbiomes are mainly recruited from soil, but also from seeds and …

Background Research on beneficial mechanisms by plant-associated microbiomes, such as
plant growth stimulation and protection from plant pathogens, has gained considerable …

Plants do not grow as axenic organisms in nature, but host a diverse community of
microorganisms, termed the plant microbiota. There is an increasing awareness that the …

Healthy plants host diverse but taxonomically structured communities of microorganisms, the
plant microbiota, that colonize every accessible plant tissue. Plant-associated microbiomes …

Plants rooted in soil have intimate associations with a diverse array of soil microorganisms.
While the microbial diversity of soil is enormous, the predominant bacterial phyla associated …