Drought Stress and Root-Associated Bacterial Communities

By D. Naylor, Devin Coleman-Derr. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018

608 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Root-associated bacterial communities play a vital role in maintaining health of the plant host. These communities exist in complex relationships, where composition and abundance of community members is dependent on a number of factors such as local soil chemistry, plant genotype and phenotype, and perturbations in the surrounding abiotic environment. One common perturbation, drought, has been shown to have drastic effects on bacterial communities, yet little is understood about the underlying causes behind observed shifts in microbial abundance. As drought may affect root bacterial communities both directly by modulating moisture availability, as well as indirectly by altering soil chemistry and plant phenotypes, we provide a synthesis of observed trends in recent studies and discuss possible directions for future research that we hope will provide for more knowledgeable predictions about community responses to future drought events.

Subfields: Plant Science, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5d0849b61860642547e45e9ed8ed66b0fd5f0dbf

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Plant Science

1. Josep Peñuelas
2. Erik Verbruggen
3. Jordi Sardans
4. Romà Ogaya
5. Joan Llusià
6. M. Estiarte

In Soil Science

1. Josep Peñuelas
2. Erik Verbruggen
3. J. Weedon
4. Jordi Sardans

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of past and current drought on the composition and diversity of soil microbial communities (2019, background): “Drought can directly affect microbes by desiccation or resource limitation, because substrate diffusion is reduced at low levels of soil moisture (Schimel et al., 2007; Naylor and Coleman-Derr, 2017).”