ArticleBMC plant biology2024
Plant growth promotion and biocontrol properties of a synthetic community in the control of apple disease.
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- Principles for Rigorous Design and Application of Synthetic Microbial Communities.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Pooled it
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- The root rhizosphere as a functional analog to the gut microbiome: Cases for microbial symbiosis and dysbiosis in parallel contexts.PNAS nexus · 2026Review
- Plant health in the era of global changes, holobiont biology, and microbiome-based solutions.Horticulture research · 2026Article
- Cross-Kingdom Synthetic Microbiota Suppresses Wheat Fusarium Crown Rot by Remodeling the Rhizosphere Microbiome and Metabolome.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026Article
- A minimal cross-kingdom SynCom promotes plant growth and suppresses wheat crown rot via coordinated rhizosphere microbiome remodeling.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Synthetic microbiomes in bioengineered rhizospheres: new frontiers for climate-resilient agriculture.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Plant microbiome engineering: from inoculation to genome editing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Synthetic microbial communities for plant growth promotion and soil-borne disease suppression: design principles, mechanisms, and translational challenges.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Growth-Promoting Effects and Mechanisms of Synthetic Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria on Maize Seedlings.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Bacillus vallismortis LRB-5: a promising biocontrol agent for mitigating apple replant disease through pathogen suppression and growth promotion.Stress biology · 2025Article
- Phyllosphere synthetic microbial communities: a new frontier in plant protection.BMC plant biology · 2025Review
- Genetic and Nutritional Dynamics of SynCom in Suppressing Apple Fire Blight.The plant pathology journal · 2025Article
- Inoculation of apple plantlets with Rhodococcus pseudokoreensis R79BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Engineering plant holobionts for climate-resilient agriculture.The ISME journal · 2025Review
- Mercury contamination alters soil microbial communities and functional traits in farmland soils of a mining region, south-western China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Avocado rhizosphere community profiling: white root rot and its impact on microbial composition.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Microbial Biocontrol Agents and Natural Products Act as Salt Stress Mitigators inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundApple Replant Disease (ARD) is common in major apple-growing regions worldwide, but the role of rhizosphere microbiota in conferring ARD resistance and promoting plant growth remains unclear.
resultsIn this study, a synthetic microbial community (SynCom) was developed to enhance apple plant growth and combat apple pathogens. Eight unique bacteria selected via microbial culture were used to construct the antagonistic synthetic community, which was then inoculated into apple seedlings in greenhouse experiments. Changes in the rhizomicroflora and the growth of aboveground plants were monitored. The eight strains, belonging to the genera Bacillus and Streptomyces, have the ability to antagonize pathogens such as Fusarium oxysporum, Rhizoctonia solani, Botryosphaeria ribis, and Physalospora piricola. Additionally, these eight strains can stably colonize in apple rhizosphere and some of them can produce siderophores, ACC deaminase, and IAA. Greenhouse experiments with Malus hupehensis Rehd indicated that SynCom promotes plant growth (5.23%) and increases the nutrient content of the soil, including soil organic matter (9.25%) and available K (1.99%), P (7.89%), and N (0.19%), and increases bacterial richness and the relative abundance of potentially beneficial bacteria. SynCom also increased the stability of the rhizosphere microbial community, the assembly of which was dominated by deterministic processes (|β NTI| > 2).
conclusionsOur results provide insights into the contribution of the microbiome to pathogen inhibition and host growth. The formulation and manipulation of similar SynComs may be a beneficial strategy for promoting plant growth and controlling soil-borne disease.
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