It takes a plant village to raise a microbiome

Melissa Y Chen; Cara H Haney

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.009

It takes a plant village to raise a microbiome

Cell Host Microbe. 2023 Dec 13;31(12):1956-1958. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.009.

Authors

Melissa Y Chen¹, Cara H Haney²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada.
² Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Electronic address: chh333@pitt.edu.

PMID: 38096789
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.009

Abstract

In this issue of Cell Host and Microbe, Meyer et al. explore the effects of host history on the inheritance of the plant microbiome. They find that transmission from the same plant species resulted in microbiota specialization, while transmission from a different species resulted in host generalism.

MeSH terms

Microbiota*
Plants*