Wang et al. show that host nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) mediates arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) responses to nitrogen enrichment. High- and low-NUE maize exhibit contrasting response patterns dr...

Intercellular communication shapes microbial adaptation to ecological niches and maintains species fitness. Barman et al. reveal that the global regulator YmdB employs the conserved redox-insensitive ...

Single-cell proteomics (SCP) can be used to quantify protein expression variability at cellular resolution. Here, Leodolter et al. develop an SCP method to quantify proteins in individual bacterial ce...

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 01 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02492-3Host-induced fungal CAZymes act as disease determinants and drive multihost compatibility.

Microbial interventions offer sustainable opportunities to enhance soil health and ecosystem functioning, but they can also have unintended ecological consequences. This Comment explores their benefit...

Specialized biopolymer degraders structure microbial community assembly through interconnected modes of metabolic cross-feeding.

Flori et al. establish high-resolution and generalizable immunofluorescence in cultured and environmental diatoms, thanks to 4-fold cryo-expansion microscopy. This represents a step-change for compara...

Dysbiosis, the disruption of plant-associated microbial communities, is increasingly recognized as a driver of impaired plant health. Notably, plant dysbiosis parallels disruptions of the human gut mi...

Firmicutes are gram-positive bacteria with important roles in human health, disease, and industry. However, more than a quarter of genes in the mod...

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