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ArticleeLife2020

Global landscape of phenazine biosynthesis and biodegradation reveals species-specific colonization patterns in agricultural soils and crop microbiomes.

Daniel Dar, Linda S Thomashow, David M Weller, Dianne K Newman

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Discovery of a phenazine-thiol conjugase from sparse data using genome-informed machine learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. Root exudates protect rhizosphereApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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  20. From microbiome composition to functional engineering, one step at a time.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel DarDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6650-5488
Linda S ThomashowWheat Health, Genetics and Quality Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, United States.
David M WellerWheat Health, Genetics and Quality Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, United States.
Dianne K NewmanDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1647-1918

Funding

Biological mechanisms and consequences of efficient extracellular electron transfer in Pseudomonas aeruginosaR01AI127850 · NIAID · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Dianne K Newman · 2017 to 2026
$5.6M
Army Research Office W911NF-17-1-0024NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127850NIH HHS 1R01AI127850-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phenazines are natural bacterial antibiotics that can protect crops from disease. However, for most crops it is unknown which producers and specific phenazines are ecologically relevant, and whether phenazine biodegradation can counter their effects. To better understand their ecology, we developed and environmentally-validated a quantitative metagenomic approach to mine for phenazine biosynthesis and biodegradation genes, applying it to >800 soil and plant-associated shotgun-metagenomes. We discover novel producer-crop associations and demonstrate that phenazine biosynthesis is prevalent across habitats and preferentially enriched in rhizospheres, whereas biodegrading bacteria are rare. We validate an association between maize and

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MetagenomicsMicrobiotaSoil MicrobiologyAgricultureBiodegradation, EnvironmentalCrops, AgriculturalGammaproteobacteriaPhenazinesSoilSoil PollutantsSpecies SpecificityUp-RegulationZea maysphenazinePhenazinesSoilSoil PollutantsDyella japonicaecologyinfectious diseasemetagenomicsmicrobiologyphenazines

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PMID32930660
PMCPMC7591250

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