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Plants establish beneficial associations with microbiota, enhancing their resilience to environmental challenges. FERONIA (FER) kinase shapes the microbiome; despite extensive knowledge of FER interac...

Thoms et al. demonstrate that perception of a bacterial exotoxin allows plants to distinguish between closely related microbiota, which has consequences for rhizosphere microbiome structure and functi...

Plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs), one of the largest gene families in plants, integrate intrinsic and extrinsic signals to regulate immunity, mutualism, and interactions with microbiota. Here we dis...

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Robinson et al. identify pathogenic Pseudomonas viridiflava in wild Marchantia polymorpha liverworts and interrogate the mechanisms enabling virulence in non-flowering and flowering plants. Their resu...

Plant performance depends on the soil microbiome. While microbiome feedbacks are well documented, the mechanisms by which plants perceive and mediate these feedbacks remain unclear. We established a f...