Introduction
Plant-microbe interactions (PMI) are central to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. No model of plant biology is complete without taking into account their associated microbes, just as soil microbes cannot be understood without considering the plants that shape their habitat. In fact, given the origin of chloroplasts and mitochondria from endosymbiotic bacteria, it could be argued that PMI are inherent to the very biology of plant cells. PMI form a continuum, ranging from highly coevolved, species-specific mutualisms tightly associated with plant tissues, to the more variable and general communities of microbes in the soil, which produce strong feedbacks that drive plant growth and, in turn, are largely controlled by plant chemistry and microclimate. Plant-microbe mutualisms show an extraordinarily intricate signaling/gene expression network between host and symbiont, but even some of the more general PMI are mediated by surprisingly complex and intimate...
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Lipson, D.A., Kelley, S.T. (2014). Plant-Microbe Interactions. In: Monson, R. (eds) Ecology and the Environment. The Plant Sciences, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7501-9_10
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