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    Coumarin biosynthesis genes are required after foliar pathogen infection for the creation of a microbial soil-borne legacy that primes plants for SA-dependent defenses

    Plants deposit photosynthetically-fixed carbon in the rhizosphere, the thin soil layer directly around the root, thereby creating a hospitable environment for microbes. To manage the inhabitants of this nutrie...

    Gilles Vismans, Sietske van Bentum, Jelle Spooren, Yang Song in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Rapid evolution of bacterial mutualism in the plant rhizosphere

    While beneficial plant-microbe interactions are common in nature, direct evidence for the evolution of bacterial mutualism is scarce. Here we use experimental evolution to causally show that initially plant-an...

    Erqin Li, Ronnie de Jonge, Chen Liu, Henan Jiang in Nature Communications (2021)