Trichoderma gets by with a little help from Streptomyces: fungal-bacterial symbiosis in plant growth promotion

Tessa E Reid; Miriam L Gifford

doi:10.1093/jxb/erae439

Trichoderma gets by with a little help from Streptomyces: fungal-bacterial symbiosis in plant growth promotion

J Exp Bot. 2024 Dec 4;75(22):6893-6897. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erae439.

Authors

Tessa E Reid¹, Miriam L Gifford²

Affiliations

¹ Sustainable Soils and Crops, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK.
² School of Life Sciences and The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, The University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.

Abstract

This article comments on:

Kabir AH, Thapa A, Hasan R, Parvej R. 2024. Local signal from Trichoderma afroharzianum T22 induces host transcriptome and endophytic microbiome leading to growth promotion in sorghum. Journal of Experimental Botany 75, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae340.

Keywords: Trichoderma; Bioinoculants; helper microbes; plant growth promotion; rhizosphere; sorghum; sustainable agriculture.