I wrote a short commentary on a recent study showing how a bacterial endosymbiont helps a fungal pathogen disrupt the protective rhizosphere microbiome.
“A four-way interaction in the rhizosphere”: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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A four-way interaction in the rhizosphere - Nature Reviews Microbiology
This Genome Watch discusses recent evidence on the interactions among a plant, a fungal pathogen, its bacterial endosymbiont and the rhizosphere microbiome, highlighting how such multipartite relation...