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Networking in the Plant Microbiome
Almost all higher organisms, including plants, insects, and mammals, are colonized by complex microbial communities and harbor a microbiome. Emerging studies with plants reveal that these microbiomes are structured and form complex, interconnected microbial networks. Within these networks, different...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4752285/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26871440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002378 |
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author | van der Heijden, Marcel G. A. Hartmann, Martin |
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description | Almost all higher organisms, including plants, insects, and mammals, are colonized by complex microbial communities and harbor a microbiome. Emerging studies with plants reveal that these microbiomes are structured and form complex, interconnected microbial networks. Within these networks, different taxa have different roles, and keystone species have been identified that could be crucial for plant health and ecosystem functioning. A new paper in this issue of PLOS Biology by Agler et al. highlights the presence of microbial hubs in these networks that may act as mediators between the plant and its microbiome. A next major frontier is now to link microbiome composition to function. In order to do this, we present a number of hypothetical examples of how microbiome diversity and function potentially influence host performance. |
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spelling | pubmed-47522852016-02-26 Networking in the Plant Microbiome van der Heijden, Marcel G. A. Hartmann, Martin PLoS Biol Primer Almost all higher organisms, including plants, insects, and mammals, are colonized by complex microbial communities and harbor a microbiome. Emerging studies with plants reveal that these microbiomes are structured and form complex, interconnected microbial networks. Within these networks, different taxa have different roles, and keystone species have been identified that could be crucial for plant health and ecosystem functioning. A new paper in this issue of PLOS Biology by Agler et al. highlights the presence of microbial hubs in these networks that may act as mediators between the plant and its microbiome. A next major frontier is now to link microbiome composition to function. In order to do this, we present a number of hypothetical examples of how microbiome diversity and function potentially influence host performance. Public Library of Science 2016-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4752285/ /pubmed/26871440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002378 Text en © 2016 van der Heijden, Hartmann http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Primer van der Heijden, Marcel G. A. Hartmann, Martin Networking in the Plant Microbiome |
title | Networking in the Plant Microbiome |
title_full | Networking in the Plant Microbiome |
title_fullStr | Networking in the Plant Microbiome |
title_full_unstemmed | Networking in the Plant Microbiome |
title_short | Networking in the Plant Microbiome |
title_sort | networking in the plant microbiome |
topic | Primer |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4752285/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26871440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002378 |
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