Variations in Nodule Microbial Communities and Their Association with Root-Colonizing Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Medicago Sativa
Yuxue Zhang, Chunyan Zheng, Shichao Wang, Feng Zhu · 2025
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Zhang and co-authors study in 2025 how nodule microbe communities vary across alfalfa plant types and link to root fungi. Alfalfa yield leans on two partnerships at once, nitrogen fixing rhizobia and nutrient trading fungi. How the two partners coexist across plant genotypes in native soil was poorly known.
Dominant microbe types and network complexity differed among genotypes with unlike yields. Rhizobia showed no clear genus level links to the fungi. Negative links appeared within each partner group instead. The findings hint at how native soil microbes shape the dual partnership, with lessons for forage growing that leans on local biology.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuxue Zhang, Chunyan Zheng, Shichao Wang, Feng Zhu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |