Drought-driven shifts in <i>Eucommia ulmoides</i> rhizosphere mycobiota and metabolites mediate host tolerance.

ABSTRACT: Drought poses considerable challenges to the sustainable development of crops, highlighting the urgent need to improve plant resistance to drought stress. Rhizosphere mycobiota roles in Eucommia ulmoides drought adaptation remain uncharacterized. This study examines E. ulmoides' rhizosphere mycobiota diversity, its changes, and interactions with plant physiology and metabolites under drought stress using amplicon sequencing, plant physiological assessments, and non-targeted root metabolomics. Our data indicate that drought stress considerably altered the species richness and community composition of the E. ulmoides seedling rhizosphere mycobiota, affecting the co-occurrence patterns and the composition of core fungal taxa within the mycobiota. Additionally, Sordario

SUBMITTER: Li C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12323333 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature