Humidity and high temperature are important for predicting fungal disease outbreaks worldwide.
Published in The New phytologist
Humidity and high temperature are important for predicting fungal disease outbreaks worldwide.
Crafting the plant root metabolome for improved microbe-assisted stress resilience.
Published in The New phytologist
Plants and microbes coinhabit the earth and have coevolved during environmental changes over time. Root metabolites are the key to mediating the dynamic association between plants and microbes, yet the underlying functions and mechanisms behind this remain largely illusive. Knowledge of metabolite-mediated alteration of the root microbiota in respo...
Warming drives a 'hummockification' of microbial communities associated with decomposing mycorrhizal fungal necromass in...
Published in The New phytologist
Dead fungal mycelium (necromass) represents a critical component of soil carbon (C) and nutrient cycles. Assessing how the microbial communities associated with decomposing fungal necromass change as global temperatures rise will help in determining how these belowground organic matter inputs contribute to ecosystem responses. In this study, we cha...
Water stress and disruption of mycorrhizas induce parallel shifts in phyllosphere microbiome composition.
Published in The New phytologist
Water and nutrient acquisition are key drivers of plant health and ecosystem function. These factors impact plant physiology directly as well as indirectly through soil- and root-associated microbial responses, but how they in turn affect aboveground plant-microbe interactions are not known. Through experimental manipulations in the field and growt...
Transcriptional acclimation and spatial differentiation characterize drought response by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suil...
Published in The New phytologist
Community response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to extreme drought in a cold-temperate grassland.
...Published in The New phytologist
Climate extremes pose enormous threats to natural ecosystems. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are key plant symbionts that can affect plant community dynamics and ecosystem stability. However, knowledge about how AM fungal communities respond to climate extremes in natural ecosystems remains elusive. Based on a grassland extreme drought experimen...
Soil salinization accelerates microbiome stabilization in iterative selections for plant performance.
Published in The New phytologist
Climate change-related soil salinization increases plant stress and decreases productivity. Soil microorganisms are thought to reduce salt stress through multiple mechanisms, so diverse assemblages could improve plant growth under such conditions. Previous studies have shown that microbiome selection can promote desired plant phenotypes, but with h...
Impacts of global change on the phyllosphere microbiome.
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Published in The New phytologist
Plants form complex interaction networks with diverse microbiomes in the environment, and the intricate interplay between plants and their associated microbiomes can greatly influence ecosystem processes and functions. The phyllosphere, the aerial part of the plant, provides a unique habitat for diverse microbes, and in return the phyllosphere micr...
Long-term warming effects on the microbiome and nifH gene abundance of a common moss species in sub-Arctic tundra.
Published in The New phytologist
Bacterial communities form the basis of biogeochemical processes and determine plant growth and health. Mosses harbour diverse bacterial communities that are involved in nitrogen fixation and carbon cycling. Global climate change is causing changes in aboveground plant biomass and shifting species composition in the Arctic, but little is known abou...
Coupling of plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity: its occurrence, relevance, and possible implications under global ch...
Published in The New phytologist
First principles predict that diversity at one trophic level often begets diversity at other levels, suggesting plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity should be coupled. Local-scale studies have shown positive coupling between the two, but the association is less consistent when extended to larger spatial and temporal scales. These inconsistencies ...
