Environmental filtering and buffering are complementary processes responsible for stabilizing ecosystem services across landscapes. The extent to which either of these processes structures microbial c...

Understanding the mechanisms that promote native seedling establishment in disturbed ecosystems is key to improving the biodiversity and function of landscape restorations. Over seven growing seasons...

Abstract. Microbial communities are often more species-rich than predicted from classical ecological models. The high levels of coexistence observed in nat

Of the many bewildering behaviors cats display, one of the strangest is their obsession with a specific species of plant. After just one whiff, even the most stoic cat can start pawing, drooling, biti...

This study finds that plant genotypes with high-quality symbioses from multiple microbial mutualists are larger/more robust and most likely to survive pathogen stress. This provides novel evidence th...

Abstract. Microorganisms form communities, and their interactions shape the function and stability of these communities. Understanding these interactions c

Background Deep groundwaters populated by diverse and active microbes are among the most energy and nutrient-limited ecosystems. Characteristics of this ecosystem (including nutrient and dispersal lim...

Re-analysis of over 92,000 metagenomes reveals hundreds of thousands of previously undescribed Bacterial and Archaeal clades hidden in plain sight.

Soil microbial ecology has been transformed by recent progress in sequencing and metagenomics, reshaping our understanding of soil microbial functions. This article examines how metagenomics can be us...

Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

Colonization of plant roots by symbionts requires substantial morphodynamic reorganization. Examples are actin-scaffolded microcompartments called infection pockets formed during root nodule symbiosis...

MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages across diverse environments, co...

Keystone species and ecosystem engineers play critical roles in maintaining and enhancing biodiversity by modifying their environment and creating ecological niches that support a wide range of organi...

Huanglongbing (HLB) is one of the most destructive diseases threatening global citrus production, yet how citrus plants respond to the pathogen at the cellular level has remained unclear.

Background High severity desert fires are uncommon but typically chart a new successional trajectory altering plant communities for at least 65 years. These aboveground vegetation shifts can have larg...

Accurately predicting coding genes from metagenomic samples containing a high proportion of eukaryotic content remains a significant challenge. Novel and reliable methods for the simultaneous predicti...

A high-throughput laboratory experiment tracking the assembly of soil-derived communities shows that species-rich bacterial necromass supports increasingly diverse communities, with each additional de...

This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...

Abstract. Despite an ever-expanding number of bacterial taxa being discovered, many of these taxa remain uncharacterized with unknown traits and environmen

Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce Metagenomic Editing (MetaEdit) as a platform ...

Plant microbiomes have the potential to mitigate the impacts of climate change, yet both the complexity of climate change and the complexity of plant–microbe interactions make applications and future....

Abstract. Most knowledge about bacterial evolution and ecological interactions comes from laboratory studies. One difference between the wild and most labo

Climate-driven variation in traits is crucial for predicting ecological responses to environmental change, yet global patterns and drivers of micro...

This review provides a comprehensive overview of signaling peptides regulating beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. It highlights recent a