▪ Abstract Agricultural soils suppressive to soilborne plant pathogens occur worldwide, and
for several of these soils the biological basis of suppressiveness has been described. Two …

The rhizosphere is the interface between plant roots and soil where interactions among a
myriad of microorganisms and invertebrates affect biogeochemical cycling, plant growth and …

Soil microorganisms are central to the provision of food, feed, fiber, and medicine. Engineering
of soil microbiomes may promote plant growth and plant health, thus contributing to food …

Disease-suppressive soils are exceptional ecosystems in which crop plants suffer less from
specific soil-borne pathogens than expected owing to the activities of other soil …

Microbial communities play a pivotal role in the functioning of plants by influencing their
physiology and development. While many members of the rhizosphere microbiome are …

The rhizosphere is a hot spot of microbial interactions as exudates released by plant roots
are a main food source for microorganisms and a driving force of their population density and …

Interest in biological control of plant pathogens has been stimulated in recent years by trends
in agriculture towards greater sustainability and public concern about the use of hazardous …

Lipopeptides constitute a structurally diverse group of metabolites produced by various
bacterial and fungal genera. In the past decades, research on lipopeptides has been fueled by …

Integrating the governing chemistry with the genomics and phenotypes of microbial colonies
has been a “holy grail” in microbiology. This work describes a highly sensitive, broadly …

A wide variety of enzymatic pathways that produce specialized metabolites in bacteria, fungi
and plants are known to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Information about these …