Guest Editors
Ben Niu
Northeast Forestry University
Dr. Ben Niu is a professor at Northeast Forestry University. He completed his Bachelor of Agriculture in China Agricultural University, where he continued his study as a graduate student supervised by Prof. Qi Wang in the Department of Plant Pathology and received his PhD degree in 2011. During this stage, Dr. Niu was awarded a financial support from the Sino-German Collaboration Project and studied in Prof. Rainer Borriss’ Lab in the Institute of Biology, Humboldt University, from 2008 to 2010, when he investigated the mechanisms of the biocontrol effect of a plant-associated Paenibacillus strain. In 2012, he joined the Laboratory of Prof. Roberto Kolter to have his postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, where he studied the interaction between plant hosts and microbiome through building a simplified and representative bacterial community. In 2017, Dr. Niu was appointed to a professorship in the Discipline of Cell Biology, College of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University. In 2019, he joined the State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding as a permanent member. Dr. Niu’s research focuses on the interaction between tree and microbiome, his lab is interested in: 1). Investigating the compositions of tree microbiome and their dynamics; 2). Defining the mechanisms underlying the dynamics of tree microbiota assembly and the beneficial effects of such communities on hosts by using synthetic microbial consortia.
Zhong Wei
Nanjing Agricultural University
Zhong Wei completed his BS and PhD in Agricultural Resources and Environmental Sciences department at the Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) during 2003-2012. He is now a full professor in College of Resources and Environmental Sciences at NAU. His research is mainly to apply soil microbial ecology to develop beneficial microbes-based bio-products for eco-evolutionary control of bacterial wilt, a typical soilborne plant disease caused by Ralstonia solanacearum. Dr. Wei has set up a theoretical and technological multidisciplinary framework to ecologically improve soil healthy threatened by soil-borne plant pathogens and increase future food security.
Zheng Gao
Shandong Agricultural University
Zheng Gao, PhD, professor, and director of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University. He graduated from Shandong Agricultural University with a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology, and has conducted visiting scholar research at the University of Hawaii and the University of Oklahoma. Engaged in microbial molecular ecology and microbial resources research, undertook various subjects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key Research and Development Program. He has published nearly 30 papers in ISME Journal, Microbiome, and Sociology and Biochemistry, Bioresource Technology, etc. He served as a reviewer for Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Water Research, Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, etc. His recent research mainly focuses on the plant microbiome. With plant diseases (potato common scab) as the main research object, using metagenomics and amplicon sequencing, combined with microbial culturomics, to explore the factors affecting the occurrence of plant diseases. To reveal the interaction between microbiota and plant pathogens, and explore the potential role of key taxa in disease occurrence.
Mengcen Wang
Zhejiang University
Dr. Mengcen Wang is an associate professor at the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University (China) and also a program fellow in the Global Education Program for AgriScience Frontiers at Hokkaido University (Japan). He obtained his PhD in Molecular and Ecological Chemistry from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2013. Dr. Wang’s research interests are focused on the understanding of environment-plant-microbiome-herbivore interactions, and microbial signaling in the plant holobiont/hydrobiont. In his academic career, he has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, which are crucial for understanding of the mechanisms that underlie the microbiome-mediated resilience of agroecosystems to various pests and chemical/biological contaminants.
Collection Overview
Plants evolve surrounded by complex communities composed of myriad microbes, which are critical for host growth and health. Recently, complicated microbial communities have been characterized on and within numerous plants, especially herbs in agricultural ecosystem, by using high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies. Based on the results of abundant prior studies, we have already known that host genetic background, health level, and abiotic factors affect the structure of plant microbiome. Nonetheless, our knowledge of the mechanisms of the community assembly and the beneficial effects of plant microbiota is still poor. A few strategies, including metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, metabolomics, culturomics, and visualization have been developed to deepen the investigation on plant microbiome, beside the techniques of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and metagenomics sequencing. In addition, the exploration of the microbiota of woody plants, particularly trees, has been inadequate. Accurate and efficient methodologies of sample collection and processing for woody plants are lacking in general. The aim of this collection is to provide the scientific community a reliable resource of comprehensive protocols relevant to the field of plant microbiome. The methods will include, but not be limited to, collection and processing of plant and soil samples, DNA extraction, sequencing data analysis, dissection of samples by metatranscriptomic, metaproteomic or metabolomic techniques, isolation and cultivation of microbes, establishment of synthetic community, and imaging analysis of microbial community.
Articles
Quantification of the Potential Impact of Glyphosate-Based Products on Microbiomes
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2022
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A Workflow for the Quantitative Assessment of the Endophytic and Epiphytic Bacterial Microbiomes of the Bark of Populus trichocarpa
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2025
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Tianyu Ma*1,2, Weixiong Wang*1,2, Shuang Li*1,3, Dong Li1,2, Lishi Shen1,3, Guanzheng Qu1,3, Vincent L. Chiang1,4, Qiang Zhang5, Di Wu1,2, Ben Niu1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, 2College of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University, 3College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, 4Forest Biotechnology Group, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, 5Institute of Economic Forest of Xinjiang Academy of Forestry Sciences
Abstracts
Constructing of growth-promoting and synthetic community in maize rhizosphere
Binghai Du*1
1Shandong Agricultural University
Isolation, cultivation, and identification of plant bacterial endophytes
Mahloro Hope Serepa-Dlamini*1
1Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
A glass-based hydroponic system for exudation profiling of various plant species
Joelle Sasse Schlaepfer*1
1University of Zurich
Quantification of stem endophytic bacterial microbiome of Populus trichocarpa by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing
Wei Li1,
Ben Niu*2,
Dong Li3,
Shuang Li1,
Tianyu Ma3,
Lishi Shen1,
Weixiong Wang3,
Vincent Chiang4
1State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China,
2State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; College of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China,
3College of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China,
4State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; Forest Biotechnology Group, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Optimization of Isolation Method of Phyllobacteria with High Polysaccharide Content
Jing Jiang*1,
Mengyan Ge1
1State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University