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Engineering multifunctional rhizosphere probiotics using consortia of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens transposon insertion mutants

eLife, 2023
While bacterial diversity is beneficial for the functioning of rhizosphere microbiomes, multi-species bioinoculants often fail to promote plant growth.
Jingxuan Li, Chunlan Yang, Alexandre Jousset, Keming Yang, Xiaofang Wang, Zhihui Xu, Tianjie Yang, Xinlan Mei, Zengtao Zhong, Yangchun Xu, Qirong Shen, Ville-Petri Friman, Zhong Wei   +12 more
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Application of coronarin enhances maize drought tolerance by affecting interactions between rhizosphere fungal community and metabolites

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2023
Coronarin (COR), an analog of jasmonic acid, has been shown to enhance the tolerance of plants to drought. However, the effects of COR on the interactions among microorganisms associated with plant roots and their implications for enhancing the drought ...
Pengfei Duan, Xiaoyu Liu, Guoqing Niu, Nanyu Jia, Tao Wen, JianGuo Zeng, Qiaowei Chen, Jian Zhang, Chao Xue, Qirong Shen, Jun Yuan   +10 more
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Metabolic interactions affect the biomass of synthetic bacterial biofilm communities

mSystems, 2023
Microbes typically reside in communities containing multiple species, whose interactions have considerable impacts on the robustness and functionality of such communities. To manage microbial communities, it is essential to understand the factors driving
Xinli Sun, Jiyu Xie, Daoyue Zheng, Riyan Xia, Wei Wang, Weibing Xun, Qiwei Huang, Ruifu Zhang, Ákos T. Kovács, Zhihui Xu, Qirong Shen   +10 more
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Manipulating the soil microbiomes during a community recovery process with plant beneficial species for the suppression of Fusarium wilt of watermelon

AMB Express, 2021
Fusarium wilt is a devastating disease which impacts watermelon production. Soil fumigation using dazomet followed by biological organic fertilizer was applied to suppress the Fusarium wilt disease.
Xu Zhang, Chao Xue, Dan Fang, Xiaohui He, Mengyu Wei, Chenjin Zhuo, Junyao Jin, Biao Shen, Rong Li, Ning Ling, Qirong Shen   +10 more
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Cysteine facilitates the lignocellulolytic response of Trichoderma guizhouense NJAU4742 by indirectly up-regulating membrane sugar transporters

Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, 2023
Background Filamentous fungi possess a rich CAZymes system, which is widely studied and applied in the bio-conversion of plant biomass to alcohol chemicals.
Yang Liu, Tuo Li, Han Zhu, Yihao Zhou, Qirong Shen, Dongyang Liu   +5 more
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A novel decomposer-exploiter interaction framework of plant residue microbial decomposition

Genome Biology
Background Plant residue microbial decomposition, subject to significant environmental regulation, represents a crucial ecological process shaping and cycling the largest terrestrial soil organic carbon pool. However, the fundamental understanding of the
Youzhi Miao, Wei Wang, Huanhuan Xu, Yanwei Xia, Qingxin Gong, Zhihui Xu, Nan Zhang, Weibing Xun, Qirong Shen, Ruifu Zhang   +9 more
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The TgRas1 Gene Affects the Lactose Metabolism of Trichoderma guizhouense NJAU4742

Fermentation, 2023
Trichoderma is one of the fungi commonly used in fermentation engineering. The hydrolytic enzymes secreted by Trichoderma have great economic value.
Jiaxi Miao, Chen Chen, Yajing Gu, Han Zhu, Haiyang Guo, Dongyang Liu, Qirong Shen   +6 more
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Soil-dwelling Naegleria enhances plant performance by stimulating beneficial bacterial functions in the rhizosphere

Nature Communications
Soil protists play vital roles in influencing plant performance, yet their interactions with plant-beneficial bacteria are still poorly understood. Here, we examine how two soil protists (Naegleria sp.
Yang Yue, Zhihui Xu, Yijin Wang, Chen Liu, Shuo Sun, Xiangyu Ren, Qihui Lv, Jingchi Liu, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Wu Xiong, Qirong Shen   +10 more
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Exploring the multi-level regulation of lignocellulases in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma guizhouense NJAU4742 from an omics perspective

Microbial Cell Factories, 2022
Background Filamentous fungi are highly efficient at deconstructing plant biomass by secreting a variety of enzymes, but the complex enzymatic regulation underlying this process is not conserved and remains unclear.
Yanwei Xia, Jingfan Wang, Chuanxu Guo, Huanhuan Xu, Wei Wang, Mingzhu Yang, Qirong Shen, Ruifu Zhang, Youzhi Miao   +8 more
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Development of a chemotactic SynCom bioorganic fertilizer for biocontrol of bacterial wilt in tobacco fields

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most severe plant diseases all over the world. Currently, many scientists are using SynCom (synthetic microbial community) to control this disease.
Yanxia Liu, Weiqi Zhang, Li Guo, Han Li, Jingwei Zhu, Xiang Li, Xiaoni Zhang, Xinrun Yang, Yangchun Xu, Qirong Shen, Tianjie Yang, Zhong Wei   +11 more
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