ArticleScientific reports2018
Root exudate metabolomes change under drought and show limited capacity for recovery.
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- Drought stress increases total C released from roots.Annals of botany · 2026Pooled it
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- Drought Stress Mediated Changes in Food Crops: Mechanisms and Remediation Strategies.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Increased pine root exudation of phenolic acids and amino acids under drought.Tree physiology · 2026Article
- Thermal imaging as a tool for studying circadian rhythms in roots.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Abiotic Stress Reshapes Rhizosphere Community Assembly and Tea Quality: Root Exudates, Plant-Soil Interactions and Microbial Management.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Foxtail Millet (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Interpretable multi-omics machine learning reveals drought-driven shifts in plant-microbe interactions.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Exudate compositions differ between the cover crops vetch and oat.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Drought Reduces Formation, but Enhances Persistence, of Mineral-Associated Organic Matter in a Grassland Soil.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Magnetotactic bacteria as biostimulants for enhancing the growth and yield of tomato and paddy under abiotic stress.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Bridging scales: integrated multi-omics and deep phenotyping for climate resilience in crop plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Oxalic acid-mediated phosphorus availability regulates the variations of karst soil organic carbon fractions under drought.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Effects of moisture-preserving yellowing process optimization on cell physiology and post-curing chemical composition.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Drought response of the maize plant-soil-microbiome system is influenced by plant size and presence of root hairs.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Responses of maize roots, rhizosphere enzyme kinetics and prokaryote diversity to alternating precipitation: insights from a three-year field study.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Unearthing the hidden organ: vital role of the root in drought tolerance of plants.Plant molecular biology · 2025Review
- Synergistic Effects of Nitrogen Application Enhance Drought Resistance inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Metagenomic and Metabolomic Perspectives on the Drought Tolerance of Broomcorn Millet (Microorganisms · 2025Article
- The Rice-Microbe Nexus: Unlocking Productivity Through Soil Science.Rice (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Root exudates comprise a large variety of compounds released by plants into the rhizosphere, including low-molecular-weight primary metabolites (particularly saccharides, amino acids and organic acids) and secondary metabolites (phenolics, flavonoids and terpenoids). Changes in exudate composition could have impacts on the plant itself, on other plants, on soil properties (e.g. amount of soil organic matter), and on soil organisms. The effects of drought on the composition of root exudates, however, have been rarely studied. We used an ecometabolomics approach to identify the compounds in the exudates of Quercus ilex (holm oak) under an experimental drought gradient and subsequent recovery. Increasing drought stress strongly affected the composition of the exudate metabolome. Plant exudates under drought consisted mainly of secondary metabolites (71% of total metabolites) associated with plant responses to drought stress, whereas the metabolite composition under recovery shifted towards a dominance of primary metabolites (81% of total metabolites). These results strongly suggested that roots exude the most abundant root metabolites. The exudates were changed irreversibly by the lack of water under extreme drought conditions, and the plants could not recover.
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