One of the major questions in contemporary plant science involves determining the
functional mechanisms that plants use to shape their microbiome. Plants produce a plethora …

Soil, the living terrestrial skin of the Earth, plays a central role in supporting life and is home
to an unimaginable diversity of microorganisms. This review explores key drivers for …

Clarifying the response of soil microbial communities and their potential functions during
succession is of great significance for understanding the biogeochemical processes and the …

Microplastics (MPs) can alter microbial communities and carbon (C) cycling in agricultural
soils. However, the mechanism by which MPs affect the decomposition of microbe-driven …

The land-use change from natural to managed farmland ecosystems can undergo
perturbations and significantly impact soil environment and communities. To understand …

Organic matter (OM) decomposition and breakdown of crop residues are directly linked to
carbon (C) sequestration in agricultural soils as a portion of the decomposed C becomes …

The effects of natural succession on plant communities and soil variables have been
established, but changes in microbial communities and their response to plants and soils …

For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and
animal communities vary across biomes. In contrast, we have only just begun exploring …

Plants are now recognized as metaorganisms which are composed of a host plant
associated with a multitude of microbes that provide the host plant with a variety of essential …

In the environment, bacteria live in complex multispecies communities. These communities
span in scale from small, multicellular aggregates to billions or trillions of cells within the …