Distinct rhizosphere microbiomes and metabolomes mediate Fusarium crown rot resistance across wheat cultivars
Runlai Xu, Chenghang Du, Yutian Gao, Kunhu Chen, Jieru Guo, Jun Ma, Yinghua Zhang, Zhimin Wang, Zhencai Sun · 2026
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Runlai Xu and eight colleagues present a 2026 field study on how wheat roots recruit microbes that fight Fusarium crown rot, a soil fungus that can halve yields. Plants under attack are thought to cry for help chemically, yet how wheat varieties differ in that call was unclear.
In diseased fields, plant variety and health together shaped root-zone microbe communities and chemistry. Healthy roots favored Bacillus, while a susceptible variety also leaned on Pseudomonas, and both microbes fought the fungus in lab and pot tests. The tolerant variety kept more complex microbe networks. The work ties root chemistry to disease suppression.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Runlai Xu, Chenghang Du, Yutian Gao, Kunhu Chen, Jieru Guo, Jun Ma, Yinghua Zhang, Zhimin Wang, Zhencai Sun |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72183 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |