Getting to the root -- unearthing the plant-microbe quid pro quo
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The microbial community or microbiome that inhabits the niches immediately surrounding and inside a plant's root facilitates the shuttling of nutrients and information into and out of the roots within the soil matrix. A new report sheds light on the mechanisms driving the subterranean formation of this "plant microbiome" and how plants can influence the presence of the microbiota in the rhizosphere and vice versa.