Cell
May 01, 2025
Crop root bacterial and viral genomes reveal unexplored species and microbiome patterns
Rui Dai,1,2,3,4,11 Jingying Zhang,2,3,11 Fang Liu,1,11 Haoran Xu,1,3,4 Jing-Mei Qian,1,3,4 Shani Cheskis,5 Weidong Liu,1,3,4 Binglei Wang,2 Honghui Zhu,6 Lotte J.U. Pronk,7 Marnix H. Medema,7 Ronnie de Jonge,8,9 Corne´ M.J. Pieterse,8 Asaf Levy,5 Klaus Schlaeppi,10 and Yang Bai2,3,12,*
1 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
2 Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Modulation Research, Peking-Tsinghua-NIBS Graduate Program, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
3 CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
4 College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
5 Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Institute of Environmental Science, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
6 State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
7 Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University & Research, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
8 Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Science for Life, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands
9 AI Technology for Life, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Science for Life, Utrecht University, 3584 CC Utrecht, the Netherlands
10 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel 4056, Switzerland
11 These authors contributed equally
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| 10.1016/j.cell.2025.02.013 |
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In this issue of Cell, Dai et al. construct comprehensive bacterial and viral genome collections from crop roots. They identify conserved bacterial functions that are enriched in root microbiomes across different soils and host species, as well as bacteria-virus interactions in crop root ecosystems. The cover image depicts the crop root microbiome as the “dark matter” of the universe, symbolizing the scientific endeavor to decode the hidden aspects of root ecosystems. Image source: Binglei Wang and Yang Bai.
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