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Deciphering Conserved Rhizosphere Metabolite-Microbiome Interactions for Crop Drought Resistance.

Guoqing Niu1, Weiye Liu1, Tianjiao Zhang1

  • 1Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Wastes, Educational Ministry Engineering Center of Resource-Saving Fertilizers, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.

Global Change Biology
|December 11, 2025
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Conserved soil microbes enhance crop drought resistance. Specific metabolites like trehalose, myo-inositol, and phenylalanine recruit these microbes, improving plant growth and water content under drought stress.

Keywords:
drought stressplant–microbe interactionsrhizosphere metabolitesrhizosphere microorganisms

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