Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants

TY - JOUR

T1 - Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants

AU - Barnes, Christopher James

AU - Bahram, Mo

AU - Nicolaisen, Mogens

AU - Gilbert, M. Thomas P.

AU - Vestergård, Mette

PY - 2025/4

Y1 - 2025/4

N2 - Microbes are ubiquitously found across plant surfaces and even within their cells, forming the plant microbiome. Many of these microbes contribute to the functioning of the host and consequently affect its fitness. Therefore, in many contexts, including microbiome effects enables a better understanding of the phenotype of the plant rather than considering the genome alone. Changes in the microbiome composition are also associated with changes in the functioning of the host, and there has been considerable focus on how environmental variables regulate plant microbiomes. More recently, studies suggest that the host genome also preconditions the microbiome to the environment of the plant, and the microbiome is therefore subject to evolutionary forces. Here, we outline how plant microbiomes are governed by both environmental variables and evolutionary processes and how they can regulate plant health together.

AB - Microbes are ubiquitously found across plant surfaces and even within their cells, forming the plant microbiome. Many of these microbes contribute to the functioning of the host and consequently affect its fitness. Therefore, in many contexts, including microbiome effects enables a better understanding of the phenotype of the plant rather than considering the genome alone. Changes in the microbiome composition are also associated with changes in the functioning of the host, and there has been considerable focus on how environmental variables regulate plant microbiomes. More recently, studies suggest that the host genome also preconditions the microbiome to the environment of the plant, and the microbiome is therefore subject to evolutionary forces. Here, we outline how plant microbiomes are governed by both environmental variables and evolutionary processes and how they can regulate plant health together.

KW - environmental regulation

KW - evolutionary pressures

KW - genotypic variation

KW - holobiont

KW - plant health

KW - plant microbiome

U2 - 10.1016/j.tim.2024.11.011

DO - 10.1016/j.tim.2024.11.011

M3 - Review

C2 - 39701859

AN - SCOPUS:85212317493

SN - 0966-842X

VL - 33

SP - 447

EP - 458

JO - Trends in Microbiology

JF - Trends in Microbiology

IS - 4

ER -