Mingxing Wang, An-Hui Ge, Xingzhu Ma, Xiaolin Wang, Qiujin Xie, Like Wang, Xianwei Song, Mengchen Jiang, Weibing Yang, Jeremy D Murray, Yayu Wang, Huan Liu, Xiaofeng Cao, Ertao Wang
Root-associated microbiomes contribute to plant growth and health, and are dynamically affected by plant development and changes in the soil environment. However, how different fertilizer regimes affect quantitative changes in microbial assembly to effect plant growth remains obscure. Here, we explore the temporal dynamics of the root-associated bacteria of soybean using quantitative microbiome profiling (QMP) to examine its response to unbalanced fertilizer treatments (i.e., lacking either N, P or K) and its role in sustaining plant growth after four decades of unbalanced fertilization...
February 23, 2024: Nature Communications