• 95. Ramos P., Gundel P., Pollmann S. (2023) Editorial: Molecular and biochemical effects exerted by symbiotic microorganisms on plant responses to environmental stresses. (pollmannlab.com)
  • The rhizosphere is the narrow region of soil or substrate that is directly influenced by root secretions and associated soil microorganisms known as the root microbiome. (wikipedia.org)
  • Soil pores in the rhizosphere can contain many bacteria and other microorganisms that feed on sloughed-off plant cells, termed rhizodeposition, and the proteins and sugars released by roots, termed root exudates. (wikipedia.org)
  • Much of the nutrient cycling and disease suppression by antibiotics required by plants, occurs immediately adjacent to roots due to root exudates and metabolic products of symbiotic and pathogenic communities of microorganisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hiltner postulated the rhizosphere was a region surrounding the plant roots, and populated with microorganisms under some degree of control by chemicals released from the plant roots. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ability of the plant's root and its associated soil microorganisms to provide specific transport proteins affect the availability of iron and other minerals for it and its neighbors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rhizodeposition allows for the growth of communities of microorganisms directly surrounding and inside plant roots. (wikipedia.org)
  • These differences should alter resource availability to root-associated microorganisms, yet most root microbiome studies involve fine root homogenization. (nature.com)
  • The term "biofertiliser" has been defined in different ways over the past 20 years, which derives from the improved understanding of the relationships occurring between the rhizosphere microorganisms and the plant. (bio-fit.eu)
  • Nevertheless, microorganisms which promote plant growth by control of harmful organisms, such as biofungicides, bionematocides, bioinsecticides, or any other products with similar activity favoring plant health, are generally defined as biopesticides, not as biofertilizers. (bio-fit.eu)
  • These microorganisms require organic matter for their growth and activity in soil and provide valuable nutrients to the plant. (bio-fit.eu)
  • Instead, this nutritionally restrictive condition favored fungal colonization, suggesting that the fungus obtains the greatest benefit in K + supply during symbiosis. (pollmannlab.com)
  • Molecular tagging of biocontrol fungus Trichoderma asperellum and its colonization in soil. (trichoderma.info)
  • This symbiosis leads to more complex interactions, influencing plant growth and competition for resources. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a first step, we studied the high-affinity K + uptake of the plant and fungus when growing separately and in symbiosis. (pollmannlab.com)
  • We asked how the plant, soil and microbiome are modulated by symbiosis between the model legume Medicago truncatula and different strains of Sinorhizobium meliloti or Sinorhizobium medicae whose nitrogen-fixing efficiency varies, in three distinct soil types that differ in nutrient fertility, to examine the role of the soil environment upon the plant-microbe interaction during nodulation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Establishment of symbiosis between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi depends on fungal chitooligosaccharides (COs) and lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs). (bvsalud.org)
  • Generally, plants gain access to valuable resources including nutrients and water through the AM symbiosis and are more resistant to pests. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition to direct effects (e.g., microbicidal action of the parent compound or breakdown metabolites), pesticides may indirectly alter the trajectory of host-microbiome coevolution in honey bees via modulation of social behaviours and the insect gut-brain axis - conceivably with consequences on plant-pollinator symbiosis as well. (researchgate.net)
  • However, mechanistic insight into how specific interactions are mediated by such FVOCs at the molecular levels, amidst complex community of microbes and plants, requires further testing. (ppjonline.org)
  • The plant-soil feedback loop and other physical factors occurring at the plant-root soil interface are important selective pressures in communities and growth in the rhizosphere and rhizoplane. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term "rhizosphere" was used first in 1904 by the German plant physiologist Lorenz Hiltner to describe how plant roots interface with surrounding soil. (wikipedia.org)
  • Plant root exudates, such as organic acids, change the chemical structure and the biological communities of the rhizosphere in comparison with the bulk soil or parent soil. (wikipedia.org)
  • Root exudates come in the form of chemicals released into the rhizosphere by cells in the roots and cell waste referred to as "rhizodeposition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chemicals connected to allelopathy: flavonols carbohydrates and application by root hairs phenols Positive allelopathic pathways and definitions of interactions between plant-plant and plant-microbe, positive plant-microbe in the form of systematic resistance Although it goes beyond the rhizosphere area, it is notable that some plants secrete allelochemicals from their roots which inhibit the growth of other organisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Without soil fauna, microbes that directly prey upon competitors of plants and plant mutualists, interactions within the rhizosphere would be antagonistic toward the plants. (wikipedia.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: The microbiome-soil-rhizobial dynamic strongly influences plant nutrient uptake and growth, with the endosphere and rhizosphere shaped differentially according to plant-rhizobial interactions with strains that vary in nitrogen-fixing efficiency levels. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here, we critically review the literature on this topic as it pertains to the rhizosphere microbiome of crop plants and gut microbiome of pollinator insects (namely managed populations of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera), since both are frequent recipients of chronic pesticide exposure. (researchgate.net)
  • Here, we review the fungal volatile compounds (FVOCs) and their impacts on different recipient organisms from perspective of distinct lifestyles of the filamentous fungi. (ppjonline.org)
  • Macroaggregates are formed by the tangling of roots and fungal hyphae around coarse particles while microaggregates are the result of aggregation of fine particles such as silt and clay caused by microbial exopolysaccharides (Balkwill et al. (bpi-tech.com)
  • Roots secrete chemicals, based on the nutrient status of soils. (bpi-tech.com)
  • Exopolysaccharides, such as polyglycolide (PGA), affect the ability of roots to uptake water by maintaining the physical stability of the soil carbon sponge and control the flow of water. (wikipedia.org)
  • The warming effects on microbial biomass and community composition were partly mediated through soil C depletion with warming and changes in recent plant-derived C uptake patterns of the microbial community. (univie.ac.at)
  • Concentrations of organic acids and saccharides affect the ability of the biological communities to shuttle phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium and water to the root cap, and the total availability of iron to the plant and to its neighbors. (wikipedia.org)
  • This rhizodeposition comes in various forms of organic carbon and nitrogen that provide for the communities around plant roots and dramatically affect the chemistry surrounding the roots. (wikipedia.org)
  • The plant in turn plays an active role in regulating its root community, including sanctioning low nitrogen efficiency rhizobial strains, leading to nodule senescence in particular plant-soil-rhizobia strain combinations. (bvsalud.org)
  • The latter are also produced by nitrogen-fixing rhizobia to induce nodules on leguminous roots. (bvsalud.org)
  • For example, inherent differences in nitrogen metabolism of plant- and insect-associated microbiomes may dictate whether neonicotinoid-based insecticides ultimately exert antimicrobial activities or not. (researchgate.net)
  • There is mounting evidence that the root-colonizing endosymbiotic fungus Serendipita indica improves plant growth. (pollmannlab.com)
  • The results indicated that, contrary to what happens with P nutrition, S. indica seems not to improve neither the growth nor the plant K + reserves during K + starvation. (pollmannlab.com)
  • The beneficial effects have been observed when plants are growing in optimal conditions or under nutritionally deficient soils (e.g., phosphate poor soil) or exposed to stressful environmental conditions such as drought or salinity. (pollmannlab.com)
  • Roots, growing in soils deficient in Fe or Mn, secrete carboxylic acids, phenolics and chelating agents (Gardner et al. (bpi-tech.com)
  • M. truncatula mutants deficient in symbiotic signaling did not show induction of MtHEXO2. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study indicates lower order roots as the main point of microbial interaction with fine roots, suggesting that root homogenization could mask microbial recruitment signatures. (nature.com)
  • Thus, this three way network of soil microbes, plant root systems and soil organisms such as earthworms and termites play a crucial role in maintaining soil structure and its suitability as a growth medium for plants and for organic matter turn over. (bpi-tech.com)
  • This mini-review will summarize the mechanisms that have evolved in diverse microbes and hosts for controlling PCD and the Gene Ontology terms developed by the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology (PAMGO) Consortium for describing those mechanisms. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This review will focus on the struggle for control of PCD that occurs between diverse microbes and their plant and animal hosts, as well as the GO terms that have been developed recently by the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology (PAMGO) Consortium [ 12 ] to describe the processes underlying this struggle. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The rhizoplane refers to the root surface including its associated soil particles which closely interact with each other. (wikipedia.org)
  • Differences between root-adjacent and bulk-soil microbial composition are likely driven by the selective pressure exerted in the root environment, as certain microbial taxa are preferentially recruited 5 , 12 . (nature.com)
  • The other two important players in influencing soil structure are plant root systems and soil animals. (bpi-tech.com)
  • Plant root systems play a key role in holding soil structure. (bpi-tech.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Despite the knowledge that the soil-plant-microbiome nexus is shaped by interactions amongst its members, very little is known about how individual symbioses regulate this shaping. (bvsalud.org)
  • These results open up the possibility to select inoculation partners best suited for plant, soil type and microbial community. (bvsalud.org)
  • Altered assimilation patterns of recent plant-derived C and changes in soil C stocks following warming as well as increased N availability are critical in mediating the direction and magnitude of these community shifts. (univie.ac.at)
  • Through the use of biofertilizers, healthy plants can be grown while enhancing the sustainability and the health of soil. (bio-fit.eu)
  • Which is to say, when the feeder roots sense water shortage in the soil, stomata will close to keep the precious water available. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • Other ecosystem controls interact with diversity and plant production, and may influence soil pools differently from plant pools. (nau.edu)
  • 92. Rossatto T., Souza G.M., do Amaral M.N., Auler P.A. , Pérez-Alonso M.M. , Pollmann S., Braga E.J.B. (2023) Cross-stress memory: salt priming at vegetative growth stages improves tolerance to drought stress during grain-filling in rice plants. (pollmannlab.com)
  • Secondly, the potential of these two native AMF species to promote growth and enhance tolerance to root-knot nematode and water stresses of cassava (Yavo variety) was evaluated using single and dual inoculation in greenhouse conditions. (frontiersin.org)
  • In the plants being exposed to environmental stresses, ion channels are likely activated to convert these external stimuli into intracellular signals. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • A root can exert a force of up to 9 bars on soils resulting in a zone of compaction around the root in which the minerals are reoriented with their basal surface tangential to the root surface (Loutit and Miles, 1978). (bpi-tech.com)
  • This is the plants way of sweating, and although it occurs as a side effect of having their mouths open allowing the water vapor out, transpiration carries out essential functions for the plant: It helps to regulate the temperature in the plant surface, and by changing the hydrostatic pressure in the plant tissues, also pumps up water and minerals from the roots in another chapter of osmotic exchange. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • Plants simultaneously interact with belowground symbionts such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and aboveground antagonists such as aphids. (bvsalud.org)
  • To test this, we sampled roots of six temperate tree species from a 23-year-old common garden planting, separating by branching order. (nature.com)
  • Root order strongly impacted composition across tree species, with absorptive lower order roots exerting the greatest selective pressure. (nature.com)
  • Microbial carrying capacity was higher in absorptive roots in two of three tested tree species. (nature.com)
  • This approach can obscure between species comparisons, as it may combine roots with vastly different functions within a plant and different plant species possess disparate fine root morphologies 24 , 25 . (nature.com)
  • Using these criteria, two morphotypes (LBVM01 and LBVM02) out of the seven AMF species selected were persistently dominant when cassava was used as a trap plant. (frontiersin.org)
  • This is the first report on native AMF species exhibiting multiple benefits for cassava crop productivity, namely improved plant growth and yield, water stress tolerance and nematode resistance. (frontiersin.org)
  • Medium pH ranging between 5.5 and 6.5 is ideal for rooting of most horticultural crops, although cuttings of some species prefer lower or higher pH. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • Describe threats and/or issues relating to plants in Virginia, such as invasive species. (vt.edu)
  • There are approximately 3,500 species of flowering plants that occur spontaneously in the state of Virginia, approximately 25 to 30 percent of which are native to other regions of the world but now live here, too. (vt.edu)
  • For instance, plants of the same species growing in different levels of ambient humidity will show different density of stomata. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • Nevertheless, aphids' performance improves on mycorrhizal plants, and it remains unclear whether a more nutritious food source and/or attenuated defenses are the contributing factors. (bvsalud.org)
  • Further, the abundance of root exudates and rhizodeposits may facilitate a greater carrying capacity by providing nutrients to house a greater number of cells. (nature.com)
  • pH has a strong influence upon the availability of mineral nutrients needed for plant growth and developmental processes. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • Organic farming is the raising of unpolluted crops through the use of manures, biofertilizers and biopesticides that provide optimum nutrients to crop plants, keeping pests and pathogens under control. (bio-fit.eu)
  • Water is also essential to dissolve the mineral nutrients available in the substrate , so the roots can capture them by osmotic exchange. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • In addition, a gene expression study of these transporters and other candidates that could participate in the K + homeostasis of the fungus has been carried out. (pollmannlab.com)
  • 91. Bastias D., Balestrini R., Pollmann S., Gundel P.E. (2022) Environmental interference of plant-microbe interactions. (pollmannlab.com)
  • Here, we study the role of the fungus in the K + nutrition of Arabidopsis thaliana plants, during growth under K + limiting conditions. (pollmannlab.com)
  • 88. Ortiz-García P., Pérez-Alonso M.M., González Ortega-Villaizán A., Sánchez-Parra B., Ludwig-Müller J., Wilkinson M.D., Pollmann S. (2022) The indole-3-acetamide-induced Arabidopsis transcription factor MYB74 decreases plant growth and contributes to the control of osmotic stress responses. (pollmannlab.com)
  • 84. Moya-Cuevas J., Pérez-Alonso M.M., Ortiz-García P., Pollmann S. (2021) Beyond the Usual Suspects: Physiological Roles of the Arabidopsis Amidase Signature (AS) Superfamily Members in Plant Growth Processes and Stress Responses. (pollmannlab.com)
  • This bacterial strain showed plant growth-promoting properties, including biofilm formation and siderophore activity. (mdpi.com)
  • Stomata also perform an important role in the immune system of the plant, reacting to the intrusion of bacterial compounds - not unlike what happens in the mouths and other openings in animals. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • Starch accounts for about 60% of dry matter in scales just before planting, and over 60% of the starch decreases during the first three months after planting, coupled with a high accumulation of sucrose and oligofructans. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • that, of course, decreases the photosynthesis rate, making the plant grow slower when compared to another individual in a more humid environment. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • We hypothesize that GlcNAc produced by MtHEXO2 may function as a secondary symbiotic signal. (bvsalud.org)
  • Among the ions taken up by the plant cells, Ca2+ plays an essential role as an intracellular secondary messenger in plants and thus the cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]c) is strictly regulated. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • 85. Pérez-Alonso M.M., Ortiz-García P., Moya-Cuevas J. , Pollmann S. (2021) Mass spectrometric monitoring of plant hormone crosstalk during biotic stress responses in potato ( Solanum tuberosum L. (pollmannlab.com)
  • Transpiration causes ions to move towards the root surface, where they are selectively adsorbed by the roots. (bpi-tech.com)
  • Transport around the soluble sugars produced in photosynthesis and the mineral ions fished by the roots. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • However, both A. colombiana and A. appendicula conferred bioprotective effects to cassava plants against the nematode Meloidogyne spp. (frontiersin.org)
  • We used this framework to assess the effects of diversity, plant traits and state factors (climate, topography, time) on live tree, standing dead, organic horizon and total C in Québec forests. (nau.edu)
  • Cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a Central and South American native plant with tuberous roots rich in starch. (frontiersin.org)
  • Functional classification involves separating fine roots according to their functional role, such as absorptive fine roots (typically includes R1/2) and transport fine roots (includes R4 and above) 24 , 25 . (nature.com)
  • Typically, adventitious rooting is preceded by an initial wound-healing response in cells at the base of stem cuttings. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • At least 400 million years of diversification has resulted in a wide diversity of taxonomically distinct major groups of plants. (vt.edu)
  • Soils also store as much carbon as all plants above ground and are therefore critical in tackling climate change. (bpi-tech.com)
  • Considering that filamentous fungi exhibit different lifestyles-saprophyte, pathogen, endophyte, and mutualist, which require many physiological and morphological adaptations, one interesting hypothesis would be correlation between lifestyles and types of FVOCs. (ppjonline.org)
  • During the cold winter season, tulip roots absorb nitrate and ammonium and a high accumulation of N (glutamine) occurs in part of the root in direct contact with N. 4-methyleneglutamine may be a temporary N storage compound in leaves, stems and roots after sprouting. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • It was revealed that strain OBA 2.4.1 is tolerant of up to 2 mM CdCl 2 , and seed treatment with the bacterium enhanced pea plant growth (length of seedlings) under 0.5 mM cadmium stress. (mdpi.com)
  • It's no wonder that the highest levels of osmotic pressure, and hence the widest opening in stomata, occur at noon in plants growing outdoors, when the sunlight energy is at its peak. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • These cells can express receptors for cytokines, neuropeptides, and neurotrophins, exerting functions in both the ENS and the immune system, and participating in the modulation of motility and secretion functions of the gastrointestinal tract. (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Plant roots may exude 20-40% of the sugars and organic acids - photosynthetically fixed carbon. (wikipedia.org)
  • They are the responsible for the gas exchange in plants, acquiring carbon dioxide from the air and releasing oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • Plant diversity can increase biomass production in plot-scale studies, but applying these results to ecosystem carbon (C) storage at larger spatial and temporal scales remains problematic. (nau.edu)
  • However, until now its role in the nutrition of other plant essential macronutrient, such as K + , has not been fully clarified. (pollmannlab.com)
  • An alternative approach is to classify fine roots according to branching order or functional role. (nature.com)
  • Among many physiological and cultural factors affecting rooting of cuttings, the role of pH in the medium is one of the least understood of variables. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • Describe the role of plants in Virginia ecosystems. (vt.edu)
  • to investigate the role of recent plant-derived C and warming on the microbial community structure and size. (univie.ac.at)
  • Stages IB and II are auxin-independent, and continuous supplies of auxin to cuttings in these stages are inhibitory to adventitious rooting. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • Stomata are formed during the initial stages of plant development, and therefore they reflect the environmental conditions under which they grew. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • Both plant and animal cells use PCD as a powerful weapon against biotrophic pathogens, including viruses, which draw their nutrition from living tissue. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The definition was extended as the bacteria were used to control plant pathogens. (bio-fit.eu)
  • Trichoderma asperellum reduces phoxim residue in roots by promoting plant detoxification potential in Solanum lycopersicum L. (trichoderma.info)
  • Particularly, we discuss the possibility that different lifestyles are intimately associated with an ability to produce a repertoire of FVOCs in fungi. (ppjonline.org)
  • Thus, a low pH medium allows greater accumulation and metabolism of auxin into plant cells in the base of cuttings, thereby increasing rooting performance. (globalsciencebooks.info)
  • Chemical fertilizers are being used in increasing amounts in order to increase the output in high yielding varieties of crop plants. (bio-fit.eu)
  • However, chemical fertilizers cause pollution of water bodies as well as groundwater, besides getting stored in crop plants. (bio-fit.eu)
  • Fine roots vary dramatically in their functions, which range from resource absorption to within-plant resource transport. (nature.com)
  • Describe the diversity and distribution of plants in Virginia. (vt.edu)
  • Describe the natural history and basic biology of plants. (vt.edu)
  • Describe the adaptations of plants and how these relate to environmental factors. (vt.edu)
  • Describe the taxonomy of plants. (vt.edu)
  • Describe the key characteristics used to identify plants. (vt.edu)
  • Feed and regulate the metabolism of the plant. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • This dataset can be used to address theoretical questions about plant strategy and trade-offs, trait?environment relationships and environmental filtering, and trait variation across spatial scales, to validate satellite data, and to inform Earth system model parameters. (nau.edu)
  • Each plant has different tolerance to wilting and has different ranges for recovery. (dmt-nexus.me)
  • We hypothesized that microbial filtering would be greatest in the most distal roots. (nature.com)
  • Plants can be defined as multicellular photosynthetic organisms with reproductive structures that are more complex than single cells. (vt.edu)