Rhizosphere microbiomes are central to plant nutrition, pathogen suppression, and rhizosphere health, yet their functions remain difficult to predict from taxonomic composition alone. We argue that mi...

Abstract. Soil is a competitive environment containing a variety of resources used for bacterial growth. Complex polysaccharides, like chitin or starch, re

Phages and integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) drive bacterial evolution, but how their interplay shapes bacterial adaptation and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) dissemination remains unclear. ...

Arabidopsis coordinates Fe acquisition with its root microbiota by releasing distinct coumarin chemotypes in response to environmental pH. These root-exuded specialized metabolites interact with root-...

Abstract. Microbial interactions are key determinants of soil and compost ecosystem function, yet remain difficult to dissect in complex, heterogeneous env

Kumar, Allen, Oster et al. show that motility of PxdA-marked early endosomes in Aspergillus nidulans is required for light-responsive development and production of secondary metabolites. In the pathog...

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.