The root microbiome: Community assembly and its contributions to plant fitness
Bo Bai1,2, Weidong Liu1,3,4, Xingyu Qiu1,5, Jie Zhang6, Jingying Zhang1,3,4* and Yang Bai1,3,4*
1 State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 2 Institute of Crop Germplasm Resources, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Ecology and
Physiology, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ji'nan 250100, China 3 CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 4 CAS‐JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 5 Center for life science, Yunnan University, Yunnan 650091, China 6 State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
* Correspondences: Yang Bai (ybai@genetics.ac.cn; Dr. Bai is fully responsible for
the distributions of all materials associated with this article); Jingying Zhang
(jyzhang@genetics.ac.cn)
Bo Bai, Weidong Liu, Xingyu Qiu, Jie Zhang, Jingying Zhang and Yang Bai. The root microbiome: Community assembly and its contributions to plant fitness[J]. J Integr Plant Biol., 2022, 64(2): 230-243.