Plant disease outbreaks pose significant risks to global food security and environmental
sustainability worldwide, and result in the loss of primary productivity and biodiversity that …

Structural changes in the gut microbial community have been shown to accompany the
progressive development of colorectal cancer. In this review we discuss recent hypotheses …

Background Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can protect plants against
pathogenic microbes through a diversity of mechanisms including competition for nutrients …

Microbial communities that are associated with plant roots are highly diverse and harbor
tens of thousands of species. This so-called microbiome controls plant health through …

Plant-inhabiting microorganisms interact directly with each other, forming complex microbial
interaction networks. These interactions can either prevent or facilitate the establishment of …

Plant microbiomes are not only diverse, but also appear to host a vast pool of secondary
metabolites holding great promise for bioactive natural products and drug discovery. Yet …

There is an increasing interest in studying interspecies bacterial interactions in diseases of
animals and plants as it is believed that the great majority of bacteria found in nature live in …

Increasing evidence suggests that the plant rhizosphere may recruit beneficial microbes to
suppress soil-borne pathogens, but microbiome assembly due to foliar pathogen infection …

Highlights•Efficiency of host colonization depends on microbe–microbe interactions.•
Eukaryotic symbionts induce biofilm formation.•Generalist communities depend on …

Controlling Salmonella in the food chain is complicated by the ability of Salmonella to
colonize livestock without causing clinical symptoms/disease. Salmonella-carrier animals …