The Soil-Borne Supremacy

Corné M J Pieterse; Ronnie de Jonge; Roeland L Berendsen

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2016.01.018

The Soil-Borne Supremacy

Trends Plant Sci. 2016 Mar;21(3):171-173. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.01.018. Epub 2016 Feb 4.

Authors

Corné M J Pieterse¹, Ronnie de Jonge², Roeland L Berendsen³

Affiliations

¹ Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 800.56, 3508 Utrecht TB, The Netherlands. Electronic address: C.M.J.Pieterse@uu.nl.
² Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 800.56, 3508 Utrecht TB, The Netherlands; Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 927, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
³ Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 800.56, 3508 Utrecht TB, The Netherlands.

PMID: 26853594
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.01.018

Abstract

The rhizosphere microbiome plays an important role in plant growth, nutrition and health. Recent research unearthed that plant genotype-dependent navigation of microbial community composition in the rhizosphere is associated with fitness consequences for the host plant, providing great promise for breeding soil-borne supremacy traits into future crops.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Crops, Agricultural / genetics
Crops, Agricultural / microbiology
Genotype
Microbiota
Rhizosphere
Soil*

Substances

Soil