ArticleMicrobiome2018
Root exudates drive the soil-borne legacy of aboveground pathogen infection.
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251 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Harnessing plant-microbe interactions: strategies for enhancing resilience and nutrient acquisition for sustainable agriculture.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Pooled it
- Root colonization by beneficial rhizobacteria.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
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- Light-Root Microbiome Interactions in Vegetable Crops: From Photoreceptor Signaling to Exudate-Mediated Recruitment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Synthetic communities and metabolite-driven enrichment of keystone rhizosphere microbial taxa suppress bacterial wilt disease in peanut.Plant communications · 2026Article
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- MAX3 deficiency recruits protective Pseudomonas via modulating the SL-ABA-flavonoid axis to suppress soil-borne pathogen infection.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Rhizosphere microbiome differentiation and soil environmental drivers in two Monotropastrum species.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- Distinct rhizosphere microbiomes and metabolomes mediate Fusarium crown rot resistance across wheat cultivars.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Article
- Potato foliar infection with Phytophthora infestans drives strong, cultivar-specific shifts in rhizosphere communities.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Streptomyces sesquiterpenes elicit 10-HCA secretion and recruit disease-suppressive microbiota to enhance banana Fusarium wilt resistance.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Host-guided microbiome-metabolite interactions enable cross-kingdom SynComs for disease suppression.Microbiome · 2026Article
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- Synthetic microbial communities rescues strawberry from soil-borne disease by enhancing soil functional microbial abundance and multifunctionality.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
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- Plant health in the era of global changes, holobiont biology, and microbiome-based solutions.Horticulture research · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundPlants are capable of building up beneficial rhizosphere communities as is evidenced by disease-suppressive soils. However, it is not known how and why soil bacterial communities are impacted by plant exposure to foliar pathogens and if such responses might improve plant performance in the presence of the pathogen. Here, we conditioned soil by growing multiple generations (five) of Arabidopsis thaliana inoculated aboveground with Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato (Pst) in the same soil. We then examined rhizosphere communities and plant performance in a subsequent generation (sixth) grown in pathogen-conditioned versus control-conditioned soil. Moreover, we assessed the role of altered root exudation profiles in shaping the root microbiome of infected plants.
resultsPlants grown in conditioned soil showed increased levels of jasmonic acid and improved disease resistance. Illumina Miseq 16S rRNA gene tag sequencing revealed that both rhizosphere and bulk soil bacterial communities were altered by Pst infection. Infected plants exhibited significantly higher exudation of amino acids, nucleotides, and long-chain organic acids (LCOAs) (C > 6) and lower exudation levels for sugars, alcohols, and short-chain organic acids (SCOAs) (C ≤ 6). Interestingly, addition of exogenous amino acids and LCOA also elicited a disease-suppressive response.
conclusionCollectively, our data suggest that plants can recruit beneficial rhizosphere communities via modification of plant exudation patterns in response to exposure to aboveground pathogens to the benefit of subsequent plant generations.
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