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¹Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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Plant microbiome interactions are bidirectional, affecting both assembly and plant responses. Feedback experiments are crucial for understanding these plant-microbiome relationships and developing crops that harness beneficial microbes.

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Area of Science:

Plant biology
Microbiome research
Soil science

Background:

Plant-microbiome interactions are bidirectional, involving microbiome assembly and plant responses (microbiome feedbacks).
Understanding these belowground interactions is key to plant health and productivity.
Methodological challenges exist in dissecting the causal relationships in these complex systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically decompose the bidirectional plant-microbiome interactions.
To identify methodological challenges and research priorities in studying these interactions.
To highlight the importance of feedback experiments in causal inference.

Main Methods:

Systematic decomposition of plant-microbiome interaction directions.
Analysis of challenges in genetic studies, particularly with plant mutants.
Proposal and justification of feedback experiments for disentangling cause and effect.

Main Results:

Bidirectionality complicates genetic studies, making causality difficult to establish.
Feedback experiments are effective for separating cause and effect in plant-microbiome interactions.
Microbiome feedbacks are understudied compared to microbiome assembly mechanisms.

Conclusions:

Feedback experiments are essential for investigating plant responses to complex microbiomes and their genetic basis.
Developing crops that can assemble beneficial microbiomes and exploit feedbacks is a promising application.
Further research into microbiome feedbacks is needed to fully understand and utilize plant-microbiome interactions.