Ecology-guided Bacillus SynCom from a rice–duckweed core reveals division of labor for concurrent growth promotion and sheath blight suppression
A top-down, ecology-guided route can generate a multifunction SynCom with demonstrated greenhouse efficacy and mechanistic transparency. By coupling-member perturbations with multi-omics readouts, our study provides a transferable rule for building resilient plant-associated consortia and a tractable framework for future genetic and in-plant chemical confirmations. Video Abstract.
Authors
- Qingxia Chen
- Sizhao Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7334-8866)
- Dachun Shen
- Yinglin Lu
- Yuxing An
- Chunlin Long
- Shuang Li
- Shasha Luo
- Yingjie Song
- Xinyan Yang
- Ruimin He
Institutions
- South China Agricultural University (CN)
- Minzu University of China (CN)
- Guangdong Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Guangxi Subtropical Crops Research Institute (CN)
- Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Science (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Microbiome
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-026-02360-6
- Primary Topic
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00