Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought-resilient crop production

FT de Vries, RI Griffiths, CG Knight, O Nicolitch… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Root-associated microbes can improve plant growth, and they offer the potential to increase
crop resilience to future drought. Although our understanding of the complex feedbacks …

Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

S Louca, MF Polz, F Mazel, MBN Albright… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Microbial communities often exhibit incredible taxonomic diversity, raising questions
regarding the mechanisms enabling species coexistence and the role of this diversity in …

A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

D Ning, M Yuan, L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …

PICRUSt2: An improved and extensible approach for metagenome inference

GM Douglas, VJ Maffei, J Zaneveld, SN Yurgel… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
One major limitation of microbial community marker gene sequencing is that it does not
provide direct information on the functional composition of sampled communities. Here, we …

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

FT de Vries, RI Griffiths, M Bailey, H Craig… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Soil microbial communities play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning, but it is unknown
how co-occurrence networks within these communities respond to disturbances such as …

Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

Genomics and taxonomy in diagnostics for food security: soft-rotting enterobacterial plant pathogens

L Pritchard, RH Glover, S Humphris… - Analytical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft rot Enterobacteriaceae (SRE) are bacterial plant pathogens that cause blackleg, wilt
and soft rot diseases on a broad range of important crop and ornamental plants worldwide …

A heritable subset of the core rumen microbiome dictates dairy cow productivity and emissions

RJ Wallace, G Sasson, PC Garnsworthy, I Tapio… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
A 1000-cow study across four European countries was undertaken to understand to what
extent ruminant microbiomes can be controlled by the host animal and to identify …

Microbes as engines of ecosystem function: when does community structure enhance predictions of ecosystem processes?

EB Graham, JE Knelman, A Schindlbacher… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Microorganisms are vital in mediating the earth's biogeochemical cycles; yet, despite our
rapidly increasing ability to explore complex environmental microbial communities, the …

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

MGI Langille, J Zaneveld, JG Caporaso… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Profiling phylogenetic marker genes, such as the 16S rRNA gene, is a key tool for studies of
microbial communities but does not provide direct evidence of a community's functional …