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Shared features and reciprocal complementation of the Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis microbiota

Nature Communications, 2022
Plants and algae associate with microbial communities that affect their growth and development. Here, the authors characterize the microbiota associated with a unicellular alga in soil, revealing extensive taxonomic and functional overlap with the root ...
Paloma Durán, José Flores-Uribe, Kathrin Wippel, Pengfan Zhang, Rui Guan, Barbara Melkonian, Michael Melkonian, Ruben Garrido-Oter   +7 more
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Genome-resolved metatranscriptomics reveals conserved root colonization determinants in a synthetic microbiota

Nature Communications, 2023
The identification of processes activated by specific microbes during microbiota colonization of plant roots has been hampered by technical constraints in metatranscriptomics.
Nathan Vannier, Fantin Mesny, Felix Getzke, Guillaume Chesneau, Laura Dethier, Jana Ordon, Thorsten Thiergart, Stéphane Hacquard   +7 more
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Rapid evolution of bacterial mutualism in the plant rhizosphere

Nature Communications, 2021
Beneficial plant-microbe interactions are common in nature, but direct evidence for the evolution of mutualism is scarce. Here, Li et al. experimentally evolve a rhizospheric bacterium and find that it can evolve into a mutualist on a relatively short ...
Erqin Li, Ronnie de Jonge, Chen Liu, Henan Jiang, Ville-Petri Friman, Corné M. J. Pieterse, Peter A. H. M. Bakker, Alexandre Jousset   +7 more
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Nicotinic Acid Catabolism Modulates Bacterial Mycophagy in Burkholderia gladioli Strain NGJ1

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 exhibits mycophagous activity on a broad range of fungi, including Rhizoctonia solani, a devastating plant pathogen. Here, we demonstrate that the nicotinic acid (NA) catabolic pathway in NGJ1 is required for mycophagy ...
Joyati Das, Rahul Kumar, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Gopaljee Jha   +3 more
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Calcium regulates the mycophagous ability of Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 in a type III secretion system-dependent manner

BMC Microbiology, 2020
Background A rice associated bacterium Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 demonstrates mycophagy, a phenomenon wherein bacteria feed on fungi. Previously, we have reported that NGJ1 utilizes type III secretion system (T3SS) to deliver a prophage tail-like
Sunil Kumar Yadav, Joyati Das, Rahul Kumar, Gopaljee Jha   +3 more
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Experimental-Evolution-Driven Identification of Arabidopsis Rhizosphere Competence Genes in Pseudomonas protegens

mBio, 2021
Beneficial root-associated microorganisms carry out many functions that are essential for plant performance. Establishment of a bacterium on plant roots, however, requires overcoming many challenges.
Erqin Li, Hao Zhang, Henan Jiang, Corné M. J. Pieterse, Alexandre Jousset, Peter A. H. M. Bakker, Ronnie de Jonge   +6 more
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Elucidation of Essential Genes and Mutant Fitness during Adaptation toward Nitrogen Fixation Conditions in the Endophyte Azoarcus olearius BH72 Revealed by Tn-Seq

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Azoarcus olearius BH72 is a diazotrophic model endophyte that contributes fixed nitrogen to its host plant, Kallar grass, and expresses nitrogenase genes endophytically.
Theresa Harten, Rolf Nimzyk, Vivian E. A. Gawlick, Barbara Reinhold-Hurek   +3 more
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A prophage tail-like protein is deployed by Burkholderia bacteria to feed on fungi

Nature Communications, 2017
Some bacteria can feed on live fungi through unclear mechanisms. Here, the authors show that a T3SS-secreted protein, which is homologous to phage tail proteins, allows a Burkholderia gladioli strain to kill and feed on various fungal species.
Durga Madhab Swain, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Isha Tyagi, Rahul Kumar, Rajeev Kumar, Srayan Ghosh, Joyati Das, Gopaljee Jha   +7 more
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Pathogen effector recognition-dependent association of NRG1 with EDS1 and SAG101 in TNL receptor immunity

Nature Communications, 2021
For defence, plants deploy nucleotide binding, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors to detect pathogens that signal via modular networks of downstream proteins.
Xinhua Sun, Dmitry Lapin, Joanna M. Feehan, Sara C. Stolze, Katharina Kramer, Joram A. Dongus, Jakub Rzemieniewski, Servane Blanvillain-Baufumé, Anne Harzen, Jaqueline Bautor, Paul Derbyshire, Frank L. H. Menke, Iris Finkemeier, Hirofumi Nakagami, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Jane E. Parker   +15 more
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Optimisation of the amount of nitrogen enhances quality and yield of pepper

Plant, Soil and Environment, 2021
The goals of this study were to explore the characteristics of nitrogen (N) absorption and utilisation of chilli peppers (Capsicum annuum L.), improve the utilisation rate of nitrogen, and provide a theoretical basis for scientific fertilisation. In this
Shuang Han, Xiaoqin Zhu, Dongmei Liu, Libo Wang, Dongli Pei   +4 more
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