biostudies-literatureUnknown98(2)Kim BEuropean Research CouncilStrigolactones are endogenous plant hormones regulating plant development and are exuded into the rhizosphere when plants experience nutrient deficiency. There, they promote the mutualistic association of plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that help the plant with the uptake of nutrients from the soil. This shows that plants actively establish-through the exudation of strigolactones-mutualistic interactions with microbes to overcome inadequate nutrition. The signaling function of strigolactones could possibly extend to other microbial partners, but the effect of strigolactones on the global root and rhizosphere microbiome remains poorly understood. Therefore, we analyzed the bacterial and fungal microbial communities of 16 rice genotypes differing in their root strigolactone exudatioFEMS microbiology ecologyfiac010https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8902685biostudies-literatureEffect of strigolactones on recruitment of the rice root-associated microbiome.PMC8902685Flokova KKim BSuleiman AKASmilde AKWesterhuis JAKuramae EEBouwmeester HJZancarini AfalseEffect of strigolactones on recruitment of the rice root-associated microbiome.Strigolactones are endogenous plant hormones regulating plant development and are exuded into the rhizosphere when plants experience nutrient deficiency. There, they promote the mutualistic association of plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that help the plant with the uptake of nutrients from the soil. This shows that plants actively establish-through the exudation of strigolactones-mutualistic interactions with microbes to overcome inadequate nutrition. The signaling function of strigolactones could possibly extend to other microbial partners, but the effect of strigolactones on the global root and rhizosphere microbiome remains poorly understood. Therefore, we analyzed the bacterial and fungal microbial communities of 16 rice genotypes differing in their root strigolactone exudatio2022-01-01T00:00:00Z2022 Mar2026-04-08T17:55:17.668Z2025-04-05T15:23:16.929ZS-EPMC89026853513705010.1093/femsec/fiac010