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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Soil microbiome bacteria protect plants against filamentous fungal infections via intercellular contacts.

Long Lin, Danyu Shen, Xiaolong Shao, Yicheng Yang, Li Li, Caihong Zhong, Jiandong Jiang, Mengcen Wang, Guoliang Qian

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Long LinDepartment of Plant Pathology, Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Danyu ShenDepartment of Plant Pathology, Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2973-0010
Xiaolong ShaoDepartment of Plant Pathology, Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Yicheng YangDepartment of Plant Pathology, Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Li LiEngineering Laboratory for Kiwifruit Industrial Technology, Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4717-1996
Caihong ZhongEngineering Laboratory for Kiwifruit Industrial Technology, Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
Jiandong JiangDepartment of Microbiology, Key Lab of Microbiology for Agricultural Environment, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Mengcen WangState Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Guoliang QianDepartment of Plant Pathology, Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3577-3241

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial-fungal interaction (BFI) has significant implications for the health of host plants. While the diffusible antibiotic metabolite-mediated competition in BFI has been extensively characterized, the impact of intercellular contact remains largely elusive. Here, we demonstrate that the intercellular contact is a prevalent mode of interaction between beneficial soil bacteria and pathogenic filamentous fungi. By generating antibiotics-deficient mutants in two common soil bacteria,

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FungiMicrobiotaPlant DiseasesSoil MicrobiologyLysobacterMicrobial InteractionsPseudomonas fluorescensType VI Secretion SystemsType VI Secretion Systemsbacterial–fungal interactioncontact-dependent antifungal activityfilamentous fungiT6SS

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PMCPMC11762177

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