BACKGROUND: The coevolution and interaction between plants and microorganisms have long been a subject of significant research interest. Dark septate endophytes (DSE) have garnered great attention in contemporary research due to their functional diversity, in vitro cultivation ab...
Plant-associated microorganisms can be found in various plant niches and plays an important role in the response to environmental stress. For example, foliar fungal endophytes are known for their ability to increase host resistance to insect pests, fungal pathogens a...
Beneficial association with symbiotic fungi helps improve the growth and fitness in most land plants, and shows great potential as biofertilizers in precision agriculture. Here, we demonstrated that a root fungal endophyte, Tinctoporellus species isolate AR8, enabled yield improvement in...
The biological function of the plant-microbiome system is the result of contributions from the host plant and microbiome members. The Populus root microbiome is a diverse community that has high abundance of β- and γ-Proteobacteria, both classes which include multiple plant-growth promoting represen...
During the last decades, the use of plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) has been found to increase crop yield and quality and to confer abiotic and biotic stress tolerance. However, until now the PGPB mechanism to enhance plant performances is not clearly defined. Recently, our findings demonstra...
The importance of synthetic microbial communities in agriculture is increasingly being recognized, but methods for constructing targeted synthetic communities using existing microbial resources remain limited. In this study, six plant beneficial bacterial strains with distinct capacities for utilizi...
Understanding how plants distinguish between commensal and pathogenic microorganisms is one of the major challenges in the plant microbe interaction research. We previously identified a gene encoding CYP71A27 connected to camalexin, which is necessary for a plant growth promoting (PGP) activity of a...
