利用单细胞和空间转录组学揭示植物与微生物的共生关系

2024.07.10

Beneficial plant–microbe interactions are critical to plant productivity in both natural and agricultural ecosystems due to benefits such as improved plant nutrition and abiotic stress tolerance.

The legume–rhizobia symbiosis and plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis both involve continuous signaling and coordination between two organisms.

Within symbioses, the development of novel microbial and plant structures is driven by symbiosis-specific gene expression in a few specific cell populations.

Genetic engineering to take better advantage of these interactions relies on the identification of symbiosis-responsive plant and microbial genes that can serve as targets for modification.

Applying single-cell and spatial RNA-seq to study plant–microbe endosymbiosis can facilitate the identification of such genes and improve our general understanding of the complex biology of symbiotic interactions.

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期刊·Trends in Plant Science

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