Q1. What are the contributions in this paper?
Here, the authors discuss physiological factors of plants that may govern plant-microbe interactions, focusing on root physiology and the role of root exudates. Finally, building off of the features discussed in this review, and in analogy to well-known symbioses, the authors elaborate on a possible sequence of events governing rhizobiome assembly. Given that only a few plant transport proteins are known to be involved in root metabolite export, the authors suggest novel families putatively involved in this process.