Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s11104-026-08308-x
Minghe Nie, Ying Lu, Xiuting Luo, Guohui Wang, Hongbin Ma, Yan Shen
{"title":"Soil properties and biodiversity co-regulate ecosystem multifunctionality of desert steppe degradation in the arid wind and sandy area of northwest China","authors":"Minghe Nie, Ying Lu, Xiuting Luo, Guohui Wang, Hongbin Ma, Yan Shen","doi":"10.1007/s11104-026-08308-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08308-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"290 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146095954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s11104-026-08305-0
Yang Liu, Saifei Li, Pengfei Liu, Quan Shi, Chen He, Mukan Ji
{"title":"The interplay of plants and microbial communities in modulating dissolved organic matter dynamics in a Tibetan glacier forefield","authors":"Yang Liu, Saifei Li, Pengfei Liu, Quan Shi, Chen He, Mukan Ji","doi":"10.1007/s11104-026-08305-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08305-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1007/s11104-026-08318-9
Pankaj K. Singh, Catarina S. C. Martins, Ramesha H. Jayaramaiah, Eleonora Egidi, Catriona Macdonald, Juntao Wang, Chao Xiong, Bruna Batista, Galaxy Qui, Peter B. Reich, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Brajesh K. Singh
Background and aims The plant microbiome is considered as an extended part of the plant genome, and it provides key functions in regulating plant fitness, and stress tolerance. Plants and associated microbiomes have co-evolved over millennia, yet evidence for a strong influence of plant phylogeny on their microbiomes is largely lacking. Our aim was to assess relative contributions of soil microbial diversity, host phylogenetic relatedness, host niches and environmental disturbance on plant microbiome assembly. Methods We conducted a full factorial experiment that included three levels of soil microbial diversity, five plant species from three functional groups (C3, C4, and C3 nitrogen-fixing), and two moisture availability levels. Results Our results showed that host identity and plant functional group exerted the strongest effect on leaf microbial assembly, while root and soil microbiomes showed less sensitivity to host selection. The initial soil microbial diversity and composition significantly impacted soil and root microbial composition, but not leaf microbiomes. Importantly, we observed significant positive linkage between host phylogeny distance and Bray–Curtis dissimilarity index in leaf microbiomes. This finding was further validated through analysis of microbiome data from seven plant species grown across different field and environmental conditions. There was no significant impact of short-term water stress on plant microbial communities. Conclusions By providing empirical evidence for important role of host selection in shaping plant microbiomes, this study advances our fundamental knowledge of plant–microbe interactions and their co-evolutionary relationships and enhances our ability to develop future tools harnessing plant microbiome to improve plant health and productivity.
{"title":"Leaf microbiome assembly is linked to plant phylogeny","authors":"Pankaj K. Singh, Catarina S. C. Martins, Ramesha H. Jayaramaiah, Eleonora Egidi, Catriona Macdonald, Juntao Wang, Chao Xiong, Bruna Batista, Galaxy Qui, Peter B. Reich, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Brajesh K. Singh","doi":"10.1007/s11104-026-08318-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08318-9","url":null,"abstract":"Background and aims The plant microbiome is considered as an extended part of the plant genome, and it provides key functions in regulating plant fitness, and stress tolerance. Plants and associated microbiomes have co-evolved over millennia, yet evidence for a strong influence of plant phylogeny on their microbiomes is largely lacking. Our aim was to assess relative contributions of soil microbial diversity, host phylogenetic relatedness, host niches and environmental disturbance on plant microbiome assembly. Methods We conducted a full factorial experiment that included three levels of soil microbial diversity, five plant species from three functional groups (C3, C4, and C3 nitrogen-fixing), and two moisture availability levels. Results Our results showed that host identity and plant functional group exerted the strongest effect on leaf microbial assembly, while root and soil microbiomes showed less sensitivity to host selection. The initial soil microbial diversity and composition significantly impacted soil and root microbial composition, but not leaf microbiomes. Importantly, we observed significant positive linkage between host phylogeny distance and Bray–Curtis dissimilarity index in leaf microbiomes. This finding was further validated through analysis of microbiome data from seven plant species grown across different field and environmental conditions. There was no significant impact of short-term water stress on plant microbial communities. Conclusions By providing empirical evidence for important role of host selection in shaping plant microbiomes, this study advances our fundamental knowledge of plant–microbe interactions and their co-evolutionary relationships and enhances our ability to develop future tools harnessing plant microbiome to improve plant health and productivity.","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"297 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1007/s11104-025-08264-y
Yu Zhou, Jing Yu, Donghui Liu, Rong Liu, Yunchu Zhang, Juan Xiao
{"title":"Microbial metabolic traits regulate the difference in microbial necromass contribution to SOC between rhizosphere and bulk soil","authors":"Yu Zhou, Jing Yu, Donghui Liu, Rong Liu, Yunchu Zhang, Juan Xiao","doi":"10.1007/s11104-025-08264-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-08264-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"198 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variations and driving factors of soil respiration components over stand age in boreal birch forests in China","authors":"Minglei Gao, Xiuling Man, Qiaojuan Liu, Tijiu Cai, Changhui Peng","doi":"10.1007/s11104-026-08326-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08326-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1007/s11104-026-08301-4
Aswati R. Nair, Harsha K
{"title":"Microbial dysbiosis underlies soft-rot susceptibility in ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) compared to resistant Z. zerumbet (L.) Smith as revealed by 16S rRNA metabarcoding","authors":"Aswati R. Nair, Harsha K","doi":"10.1007/s11104-026-08301-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08301-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146056033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}