Root rot suppression by synthetic microbiota is associated with rhizosphere bacterial shifts and amino acid metabolism

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2026
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Abstract
Root rot caused by Fusarium oxysporum (F. oxysporum) severely constrains Codonopsis pilosula (C. pilosula) production. Indigenous culturable bacteria associated with C. pilosula were screened for antifungal activity, plant growth-promoting traits, and interstrain compatibility, and two defined three-member synthetic microbial communities, SCI and SCII, were constructed. Both SynComs alleviated root rot, with SCI showing stronger overall performance and a biocontrol efficacy of 57.8%, together with improved root growth and photosynthetic performance. Rhizosphere bacterial profiling was integrated with rhizosphere metabolite profiling and root tissue metabolomics. SynCom treatment was associated with limited changes in overall bacterial diversity but variation in specific rhizosphere taxa. In roots, pathway-enrichment patterns shifted from sulfur metabolism and oxidative stress-related processes under pathogen stress toward amino acid-related metabolism after SynCom treatment, accompanied by treatment-associated variation in medicinally relevant metabolite features. Associations between metabolic changes and potentially beneficial bacteria indicated coordinated variation between host metabolism and rhizosphere bacterial composition. In vitro assays further showed that L-valine elicited chemotactic and growth responses in a representative Sphingomonas isolate. Collectively, SynCom-mediated root rot suppression was associated with constituent-strain antagonism, plant recovery, rhizosphere bacterial shifts, and amino acid-related metabolic variation.
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Authors Ning Zhu, Peijie Zhao, Xinyi Liu, Feifan Leng, Xiaopeng Guo, Zhongduo Yang, Jia Zhou, Xinjian Wang, Wen Luo, Dan Gao, Ming Luo, Yonggang Wang
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Journal Journal of experimental botany
Year 2026
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10.1093/jxb/erag521
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https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erag521
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