Cell Host & Microbe
Volume 26, Issue 2, 14 August 2019, Pages 183-192
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Review
Plant-Microbe Interactions Facing Environmental Challenge

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In the past four decades, tremendous progress has been made in understanding how plants respond to microbial colonization and how microbial pathogens and symbionts reprogram plant cellular processes. In contrast, our knowledge of how environmental conditions impact plant-microbe interactions is less understood at the mechanistic level, as most molecular studies are performed under simple and static laboratory conditions. In this review, we highlight research that begins to shed light on the mechanisms by which environmental conditions influence diverse plant-pathogen, plant-symbiont, and plant-microbiota interactions. There is a great need to increase efforts in this important area of research in order to reach a systems-level understanding of plant-microbe interactions that are more reflective of what occurs in nature.

Keywords

plant pathogen
symbiosis
abiotic stress
temperature
light
circadian clock
humidity
nutrient
innate immunity
climate change

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