Cheng Gao

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that under drought, roots increase the production of many metabolites, and that monoderms inhabiting the drought-treated rhizosphere exhibit increased activity of transporters connected with some of these same compounds.

TL;DR: A sorghum system is used to show that stochastic forces act on fungal community assembly in leaves and roots early in host development and when Sorghum is drought stressed, and a dissimilarity-overlap approach finds universality in the forces of community assembly of the mycobiomes of the different sorghums compartments and in functional guilds of fungi.

TL;DR: The diversity of a key guild of root‐associated microbes, that is, ectomycorrhizal fungi along a plant diversity gradient in a Chinese subtropical forest, indicated that EM fungal diversity was positively correlated with host plant diversity, and a general diversity maintenance mechanism for host‐specific microbes based on higher order host plant phylogenetic diversity was suggested.

TL;DR: A large-scale depletion in the expression of genes critical to arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is discovered, with a corresponding drop in AM fungal mass in the plants’ roots.

TL;DR: It is suggested that different assembly mechanisms operate on the EM fungal community at different stages in secondary subtropical forest succession, which was affected by different factors in the different forest successional stages.