Background
Wheat crown rot (WCR) caused by Fusarium spp. lacks durable, sustainable control. Engineering the rhizosphere with defined synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) offers a route to combined disease suppression and growth promotion. We aimed to build a cross-kingdom SynCom and e...
A cross-kingdom synthetic community (SSC) derived from wild soybean rhizosphere soil was constructed and inoculated onto cultivated soybeans suffering from continuous cropping obstacles. Root exudates from cultivated soybeans were collected before and after inoculation with the SSC via a hydropon...
Environmental co-contamination presents significant challenges. To tackle these, while microbial consortia offer advantages over single-strain approaches, such as functional redundancy and synergistic degradation, rationally designing effective synthetic microbiomes specifically for complex ...
Wheat is a major staple crop grown across the globe. Fusarium crown rot (FCR) of wheat, caused by Fusarium pseudograminearum, is a destructive soil-borne disease that lacks effective sustainable control measures. Here, we assembled a cross-kingdom synthetic microbial community (SMC) comprising Tr...
The gut microbiota is essential to host health. Probiotics can be used as a microbiota targeted therapy to improve host health. However, probiotic molecular mechanisms of action and probiotics targeting the small intestinal microbiota are often not elucidated. In this study, we construct a three ...
Maintaining the integrity of the mucus layer is essential for host health. Studies have implicated that reduced or abnormal mucus production may lead to intestinal inflammation. When dietary nutrients are abundant in the gut, mucin degradation by microbes decreases. However, when nutrient availab...