The majority of the Earth’s terrestrial carbon is stored in the soil. If anthropogenic warming
stimulates the loss of this carbon to the atmosphere, it could drive further planetary warming 1 , …

Highlights • bZIPs are evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic transcription factors. • The
Arabidopsis bZIP family consists of 78 members classified into 13 groups. • bZIPs perform a …

Microbiomes play a pivotal role in plant growth and health, but the genetic factors involved
in microbiome assembly remain largely elusive. Here, we map the molecular features of the …

It is increasingly acknowledged that climate change is influencing terrestrial ecosystems by
increased drought and rainfall intensities. Soil microbes are key drivers of many processes in …

Mammalian milk is not only a source of nutrition for the newborn, but also contains various
components that regulate further development. For instance, milk is an abundant source of …

Climate change alters frequencies and intensities of soil drying-rewetting and freezing-thawing
cycles. These fluctuations affect soil water availability, a crucial driver of soil microbial …

Many plant species respond to unfavorable high ambient temperatures by adjusting their
vegetative body plan to facilitate cooling. This process is known as thermomorphogenesis and …

An understanding of above-belowground (AG-BG) ecology is important for evaluating how
plant interactions with enemies, symbionts, and decomposers affect species diversity and will …

Plants deposit photosynthetically-fixed carbon in the rhizosphere, the thin soil layer directly
around the root, thereby creating a hospitable environment for microbes. To manage the …

Increasing evidence suggests that specific interactions between microbial decomposers and
plant litter, named home‐field advantage (HFA), influence litter breakdown. However, we …