Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Root traits and belowground herbivores relate to plant–soil feedback variation among congeners

  • Rutger A. Wilschut,
  • Wim H. van der Putten,
  • Paolina Garbeva,
  • Paula Harkes,
  • Wouter Konings,
  • Purva Kulkarni,
  • Henk Martens,
  • Stefan Geisen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09615-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Most studies of plant–soil feedbacks and associated traits look at remotely-related species. Here the authors look at congeners, and show that nematode-driven plant–soil feedbacks depend on root chemical and morphological traits, independent of phylogenetic distance.