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ArticlePlant, cell & environment2021

Soil composition and plant genotype determine benzoxazinoid-mediated plant-soil feedbacks in cereals.

Selma Cadot, Valentin Gfeller, Lingfei Hu, Nikhil Singh, Andrea Sánchez-Vallet, Gaétan Glauser, Daniel Croll, Matthias Erb, Marcel G A van der Heijden, Klaus Schlaeppi

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Article in Plant, cell & environment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 authors.

Selma CadotDivision of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3939-2593
Valentin GfellerInstitute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8896-7280
Lingfei HuZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7791-9440
Nikhil SinghLaboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Andrea Sánchez-ValletPlant Pathology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3668-9503
Gaétan GlauserNeuchâtel Platform of Analytical Chemistry, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0983-8614
Daniel CrollLaboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2072-380X
Matthias ErbInstitute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4446-9834
Marcel G A van der HeijdenDivision of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7040-1924
Klaus SchlaeppiDivision of Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3620-0875

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant-soil feedbacks refer to effects on plants that are mediated by soil modifications caused by the previous plant generation. Maize conditions the surrounding soil by secretion of root exudates including benzoxazinoids (BXs), a class of bioactive secondary metabolites. Previous work found that a BX-conditioned soil microbiota enhances insect resistance while reducing biomass in the next generation of maize plants. Whether these BX-mediated and microbially driven feedbacks are conserved across different soils and response species is unknown. We found the BX-feedbacks on maize growth and insect resistance conserved between two arable soils, but absent in a more fertile grassland soil, suggesting a soil-type dependence of BX feedbacks. We demonstrated that wheat also responded to BX-feedbacks. While the negative growth response to BX-conditioning was conserved in both cereals, insect resistance showed opposite patterns, with an increase in maize and a decrease in wheat. Wheat pathogen resistance was not affected. Finally and consistent with maize, we found the BX-feedbacks to be cultivar-specific. Taken together, BX-feedbacks affected cereal growth and resistance in a soil and genotype-dependent manner. Cultivar-specificity of BX-feedbacks is a key finding, as it hides the potential to optimize crops that avoid negative plant-soil feedbacks in rotations.

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