Livestock grazing is one of the most intensive land-use activities in grasslands. Revealing how livestock diets and interspecific niche partitioning/overlap change in response to grassland degradation are of high interest for conservation and management of grasslands.

Co-occurrence patterns of rhizosphere viruses, bacteria, and fungi communities from cotton fields with different fitness.

Plant species and soil depth differentially affect microbial diversity and function in grasslands

Functional genes of the plants in the regulation of rhizosphere microbial community and function.

Aphid microbiome analyses were repeatedly performed using pooled and single aphid samples, and different data filtering approaches. Different approaches can lead partially to different qualitative or quantitative inferences regarding the overall community and specific taxa of interest, owing to the skewed microbial community composition in aphids. Future aphid microbiome research should consider the compositional peculiarities of aphid microbial communities in experimental, methodological and statistical design.

Application of novel chimeric peptide (1) induces the plant defence responses (2) that results in the reduction in the titre of the citrus greening pathogen, Candidatus liberibacter asiaticius (CLas) (shown as red-coloured bacteria) from the infected leaves (3). (4) Induction of plant defence response results in disease resistance against future CLas infection. (5) The chimeric peptide also directly reduces the CLas titre through its antimicrobial activity against the pathogen. (6) Application of chimeric peptide restores the native microbial communities in the citrus phyllosphere by its selective removal of the pathogen or (7) reducing the pathogen-mediated changes in the microbiome by increasing disease resistance.