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First paper of the week in 2026!

Paper of the week - week 7 (2026):

Pseudomonas volatiles shape the root transcriptome and microbiome to promote plant growth under drought

Carracedo Lorenzo et al., 2026

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701981v1.abstract (preprint)

#plantmicrobeinteractions #microbemicrobeinteractions #volatileorganiccompounds #drought #ABA #plantgrowthpromotingrhizobacteria #Arabidopsisthaliana #Brassicaoleracea

Pseudomonas volatiles shape the root transcriptome and microbiome to promote plant growth under drought

### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Dutch Research Council (NWO/OCW), as part of the MiCRop Consortium Programme, Harnessing the second genome of plants

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Annals of Botany Jan 22

🌍 Foliar endophytes don’t just affect plants, they help engineer the soil environment, connecting above- and belowground processes in powerful ways. (9/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qnp5

#PlantMicrobeInteractions #SoilBiochemistry #Endophytes #Rhizosphere #PlantScience #AoBpapers

Annals of Botany Jan 22

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Foliar Epichloë fungal endophytes affect soil biochemistry via changes in the expression of root genes and exudates within their host plants’ in @AnnBot by Xiumei Nie and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

👉 https://doi.org/qnp5

#PlantMicrobeInteractions #SoilBiochemistry #Endophytes #Rhizosphere #PlantScience #AoBpapers

NIOO-KNAW Oct 6

New publication: NRPS gene dynamics in the #wheat #rhizoplane show increased proportion of viscosin NRPS genes of importance for root colonization during drought. #rootmicrobiome #plantmicrobeinteractions
https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00852-24