Ecologically derived synthetic communities can provide robust plant benefits, yet generalizable rules for assembling multifunctional consortia remain limited. We hypothesized that a “top-down” community assembled from an ecological core would yield complementary functions and resilience superior ...
Non-targeted metabolomics was performed to investigate the metabolic differences between fertile and sterile wheat anthers, and to identify anther-derived metabolites that promote Fusarium head blight infection. Wheat anthers (fertile, sterile, and fertile anthers co-cultured with Fusarium gramin...