ReviewPlanta2020
Secondary metabolites as plant defensive strategy: a large role for small molecules in the near root region.
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- Harnessing NMR technology for enhancing field crop improvement: applications, challenges, and future perspectives.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2025Review
- Trade-offs and adaptation to metalliferous soils: The role of soil microbiome in metal tolerance and uptake in Arabidopsis halleri ecotypes from a reciprocal transplant experiment.The Science of the total environment · 2024Article
- Decoding the biochemical dialogue: metabolomic insights into soybean defense strategies against diverse pathogens.Science China. Life sciences · 2024Article
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- Enhanced wheat productivity in saline soil through the combined application of poultry manure and beneficial microbes.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- AllochthonousJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Strategies for tailoring functional microbial synthetic communities.The ISME journal · 2024Review
- Evaluation of Tunisian wheat endophytes as plant growth promoting bacteria and biological control agents against Fusarium culmorum.PloS one · 2024Article
- Bioprospecting and Challenges of Plant Microbiome Research for Sustainable Agriculture, a Review on Soybean Endophytic Bacteria.Microbial ecology · 2023Review
- Microorganisms in Plant Growth and Development: Roles in Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Secondary Metabolites Secretion.Microorganisms · 2022Review
- An insight to rhizosphere bacterial community composition and structure of consecutive winter-initiated sugarcane ratoon crop in Southern China.BMC plant biology · 2022Article
- Natural products of medicinal plants: biosynthesis and bioengineering in post-genomic era.Horticulture research · 2022Article
- Overexpressing the N-terminus of CATALASE2 enhances plant jasmonic acid biosynthesis and resistance to necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea B05.10.Molecular plant pathology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The roles of plant roots are not merely limited to the provision of mechanical support, nutrients and water, but also include more specific roles, such as the capacity to secrete diverse chemical substances. These metabolites are actively secreted in the near root and play specific and significant functions in plant defense and communication. In this review, we detail the various preventive roles of these powerful substances in the rhizosphere with a perspective as to how plants recruit microbes as a preventive measure against other pathogenic microbes, also, briefly about how the rhizosphere can repel insect pests, and how these chemical substances alter microbial dynamics and enhance symbiotic relationships. We also highlight the need for more research in this area to detail the mode of action and quantification of these compounds in the environment and their roles in some important biological processes in microorganisms and plants.
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