Root microbiota drive direct integration of phosphate stress and immunity.

ABSTRACT: Plants live in biogeochemically diverse soils with diverse microbiota. Plant organs associate intimately with a subset of these microbes, and the structure of the microbial community can be altered by soil nutrient content. Plant-associated microbes can compete with the plant and with each other for nutrients, but may also carry traits that increase the productivity of the plant. It is unknown how the plant immune system coordinates microbial recognition with nutritional cues during microbiome assembly. Here we establish that a genetic network controlling the phosphate stress response influences the structure of the root microbiome community, even under non-stress phosphate conditions. We define a molecular mechanism regulating coordination between nutrition and defence in the presence of

SUBMITTER: Castrillo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5364063 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature