Highlights•Abundance-occupancy distributions can be systematically explored to determine
the core subset and to quantify its contributions to beta diversity.•A standardized approach to …

Community assembly is mediated by selection, dispersal, drift, and speciation.
Environmental selection is mostly used to date to explain patterns in plant microbiome …

The concept of a core microbiome has been broadly used to refer to the consistent presence
of a set of taxa across multiple samples within a given habitat. The assignment of taxa to …

The full potential of managing microbial communities to support plant health is yet-
unrealized, in part because it remains difficult to ascertain which members are most …

Methodological advances over the past two decades have propelled plant microbiome
research, allowing the field to comprehensively test ideas proposed over a century ago and …

The term “core microbiome” has become widely used in microbial ecology over the last
decade. Broadly, the core microbiome refers to any set of microbial taxa, or the genomic and …

Highlights•Each plant microbiome type differs predictably with its surrounding
environment.•While most soil microbes are dormant, the bulk of rhizospheric microbes are …

Plants host distinct microbial communities on and inside their tissues designated the plant
microbiota. Microbial community profiling enabled the description of the phylogenetic …

Most eukaryotes develop close interactions with microorganisms that are essential for their
performance and survival. Thus, eukaryotes and prokaryotes in nature can be considered as …

Microorganisms colonizing plant surfaces and internal tissues provide a number of life-
support functions for their host. Despite increasing recognition of the vast functional …