Nodulation number tempers the relative importance of stochastic processes in the assembly of soybean root-associated communities.

ABSTRACT: Identifying the ecological forces that structure root-associated microbial communities is an essential step toward more sustainable agriculture. Legumes are widely utilized as model plants to study selective forces and their functioning in plant-microbial interactions owing to their ability to establish mutualism with rhizobia. Root nodules act as symbiotic organs to optimize the cost-benefit balance in this mutualistic relationship by modulating the number of nodules. However, it is not known whether the number of nodules is related to the structure of root-associated bacterial communities. Here, the root-associated bacterial communities of soybean grown in native soil by means of soybean cultivars with super- or normal nodulation were investigated across four developmental stages. We com

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10462722 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature