Large-scale multi-omics unveils host–microbiome interactions driving root development and nitrogen acquisition
Nannan Li; Guoliang Li; Xiaofang Huang; Lige Ma; Danning Wang; Yu Luo; Xulv Cao; Yantao Zhu · 2026 · Nature Plants
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Abstract
The rhizosphere microbiome plays a crucial role in determining plant performance and fitness. Nevertheless, regulatory mechanisms linking host genetic variation, root gene regulation and microbiome assembly-and their collective influence on plant nutritional traits-remain poorly understood. Here we generated and integrated 1,341 paired datasets, including root transcriptomes, rhizosphere bacterial 16S rRNA profiles and root ionomes, across 175 resequenced Brassica napus ecotypes grown at two contrasting field sites. We identified 203 highly heritable bacterial amplicon sequence variants (ASVs)
Abstract by Nannan Li; Guoliang Li; Xiaofang Huang; Lige Ma; Danning Wang; Yu Luo; Xulv Cao; Yantao Zhu, Nature Plants (2026) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1038/s41477-025-02210-7